State grants $175,000 for Elk River restoration project, eco-park

EUREKA – The California Coastal Conservancy has approved $175,000 dollars for the Elk River Estuary Enhancement Project, boosting efforts to restore salt marsh and create an eco-park along Eureka’s southern border.
This comes in addition to $350,000 approved earlier this year. The new allocation will fund project designs, surveying and permitting.
The plan calls for restoration of 104 acres of wetlands along the bay from Herrick Avenue to Humboldt Hill. That would create habitat for native species like Eel Grass and Coho Salmon, to name a few, as well as allow for the development of an eco-park with non motorized boat access and an extended coastal trail.
According to the staff report, the project would be implemented in the summer of 2018.