Governor Inslee visits future habitat restoration and flood control site at Steigerwald Refuge

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee participated in a driving tour Tuesday morning on the levee above the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge to learn about a $22 million habitat restoration and flood-control project expected to create more than 440 temporary jobs.

Some of the refuge is located inside the city limits of Washougal, and current plans call for a reconfiguration of the Port of Camas-Washougal’s existing levee system, by constructing two setback levees perpendicular to the Columbia River, north-south, at the same elevation as the current levee height — seven feet above the 500-year flood elevation.