Improvements to Incline Creek should be finalized this year. Photo/Provided

Money has been secured for IVGID to complete the final phase of the Third Creek and Incline Creeks Restoration Project.

The Incline Village General Improvement District board on Feb. 13 unanimously approved a $267,250 funding agreement between IVGID and Nevada via the Nevada Department of State Lands that provides the 25 percent local match to $801,750 in federal funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The entire project costs $1.069 million.

The final phase will include design and construction work to restore the stream environment zone and improve fish passage in Incline Creek at Highway 28. Construction should start by September.

From 2008-12, four phases of the restoration work were completed on Third and Incline Creeks to enhance fish passage and habitat, while addressing stream bank erosion, channel stability, and overall water quality. A total of 6,500 linear feet of stream environment zone has been restored; three undersized and failing culvert crossings have been replaced with open bottom CON-SPAN structures; and 11 barriers to fish passage have been addressed to date.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report