Project Performance Measures. Describe measures or indicators for the success of the SEP and procedures to evaluate compliance with the performance measures or indicators. The bank and gully repair sites will be inspected after winter floods, annually for three years. The repairs will be considered successful if they are built in conformance with the description provided in the application for Clean Water Act 401 water quality certification and comply with all conditions in the 401 water quality certification. Plant survival monitoring will be completed annually for three years. The number of plants installed shall be tracked in order to determine survival rate. At the end of three years (by July 31, 2019), planting will be considered successful if 75% of plantings have survived. If natural recruitment of native plants (i.e., willows and alders become established from the natural seed pool) occurs in planted areas, success will be based on a canopy cover of at least 75%. If the plant survival performance measure is not achieved, dead plants must be replaced in kind. In the event monitoring establishes that a site is not conducive to the survival of a particular species, alternative species may be used as replacement after receiving concurrence from the Water Board staff. Replacement plants are subject to the same performance criteria as the initial plantings. If the bank repair performance measure is not achieved, additional repairs will be made until the performance measure is achieved. Repairs will address the causes of channel instability or excessive erosion or deposition of sediment.
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