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Big Beef Creek Watershed Survey

Big Beef Creek is located just east of Seabeck in Kitsap County, Washington. The Big Beef Creek Watershed covers 13.08 square miles (USGS 2002). The headwaters for the creek are located atop the Kitsap plateau and resemble marshes more than streams. The creek makes it way downhill and north to Hood Canal through Lake Symington, a 1960's era man-made lake. As it exits the lake, through recently constructed fish ladders, it meanders downhill where it runs through a series of fish monitoring stations and a wier system. At this point it has widened, become brackish and formed a broad estuary that is effected by the tides of Puget Sound. As the creek leaves the watershed area through the estuary, flows under the Highway and mingles with the deep waters of Hood Canal, it becomes an integral component of the Puget Sound Basin water system.
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