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GRANT YEARS 1999-2005
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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1999 |
Eel River Cooperative Sediment Reduction / Water Quality Improvement |
Humboldt County Resource Conservation District (RCD) |
9-155-251-0
(Phase 1) |
$248,751 |
6/15/00-6/1/02 |
| Project Description: This project is a
cooperative approach within the Humboldt County portion of the Eel River with
the goal of reducing sedimentation, improving riparian (bank of a river or stream) habitat and water
temperatures. For further information, please contact Curtis Ihle at
707/442-6058 ext.116 or curtisihle@yahoo.com. |
| Project Outcome: (coming soon) |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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1999 |
Stemple Creek / Estero De San Antonio |
Southern Sonoma Resource Conservation District (RCD) |
9-092-251-0 |
$130,000 |
1/1/00-7/31/01 |
| Project Description: This
project has helped the Southern Sonoma RCD develop
and implement projects needed to meet Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)specified
targets for dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH,
ammonia, and sediment. For further Information,
please contact Leandra Swent at 707/794-1242
ext.5. |
| Project Outcome: (8/2006 Update) Stemple Creek restoration projects have been very successful, with ranchers winning environmental awards. One of the most degraded creeks in the Southern Sonoma County area now has some areas of riparian corridor recovering well, after being nearly bare of vegetation in earlier years. |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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1999 |
Sediment Reduction in the Gualala River Watershed |
Sotoyome Resource Conservation District (RCD)
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9-170-251-0
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$342,250 |
6/15/00-6/15/03
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| Project Description: This project has improved water quality by reducing up-slope erosion impacts to the aquatic (water) resources, improving the riparian (river bank) zone, and enhancing anadromous salmon and steelhead habitat in the watershed. For further information, please contact Kerry Williams at 707/569-1448 or sotorcd@sonic.net. |
| Project Outcome: (3/2006 Update) To reduce salmon and steelhead habitat degradation and road erosion, this Gualala River Watershed project has successfully completed 11 miles of road improvements, totaling some 54 individual road work/erosion prevention sites in the Fuller Creek Watershed, and the same for 2.5 miles of roads, including 23 sites, in the South Fork Gualala Watershed. In addition, a monitoring plan was developed which includes 79 water temperature monitoring stations (cooler water holds more of the dissolved oxygen salmon and steelhead have critical needs for), and 11 river/creek channel survey sites. A Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), with representatives from 10 resource management agencies and organizations, advised and oversaw all the above work to assure reasonable efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2000
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Five County Effort: Sediment Reduction Phase II |
Trinity County Planning Department
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1-027-251-0
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$348,000
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7/1/01-5/3/03
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| Project Description:
This contract has designed and implemented Phase II of the Five County Effort that will address problems of excess sedimentation delivery from county roads, drainage facilities, and road erosion sites within two critical watersheds: the Upper Redwood Creek and the upper Ten-Mile and Big River Basins Project. Contact: Mark Lancaster (530) 623-1351 ext. 5; mlancaster@trinitycounty.org |
| Project Outcome: (3/2006 Update) Ten Mile Road improvements in Mendocino County now prevent over 4,000 cubic yards/year of sediment from reaching streams in the Garcia River watershed; protecting the salmon fishery. A photo monitoring log of this project is available at http://www.5counties.org/Projects800.htm |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2001
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Mattole River |
Mattole Restoration Council
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1-102-251-0
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$129,800
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11/15/01-5/15/04
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| Project Description: This project has improved and protected aquatic habitat for salmon and steelhead in the Mattole River Watershed through reducing sediment runoff from roads and road upgrades. For further information, please contact Jeremy Wheeler at 707/629-3514. |
| Project Outcome: (3/2005 Update) Some 55 sites were successfully upgraded along roads and the Mattole River tributary streams (Thompson Creek and the lower Mill Creek watershed) banks to decrease erosion and sedimentation; particularly for downstream salmon and steelhead spawning beds. The project included earlier erosion and sedimentation monitoring to get a pre-project ‘snapshot’. Following
successful execution of this grant project, significantly
less erosion and sedimentation is expected downstream
of the road upgrade sites when repeat watershed
monitoring occurs in another three years. Some additional project funds were reprogrammed to achieve related improvements in coastal watersheds. |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2001
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Eel River Cooperative Sediment Reduction & Water Quality Improvement -
Phase II |
Humboldt Resource Conservation District (RCD)
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1-112-251-0
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$350,000
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12/15/01-3/15/04
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| Project Description: The
purpose of this project is to restore native
riparian (bank of a river or stream) habitat as well as control erosion with
the help of interested landowners and other cooperators. The
project goal is to reduce water temperatures
and siltation to restore salmon and steelhead
spawning and rearing habitat. For further
information, please contact Curtis Ihle at 707/442-6058
ext.116 or at curtisihle@yahoo.com . |
| Project Outcome: (coming soon) |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2001
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Humboldt Agriculture Management & Enhancement-
Phase II |
Humboldt Resource Conservation District (RCD)
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1-257-251-0
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$349,510
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6/2/02-6/30/05
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| Project Description: This program will seek to improve water quality through reduced contamination of surface and ground waters from nutrients and coliform bacteria associated with poor animal waste management practices. This will be accomplished through public education and the development and implementation of waste and nutrient management systems on dairies in the Eel River Delta, and Humboldt Bay. For further information, please contact Curtis Ihle at 707/442-6058 ext.116. |
| Project Outcome: (coming soon) |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2001
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Fish Friendly Farming Program |
Sotoyome Resource Conservation District (RCD)
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3-057-551-0
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$454,300
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10/1/03-12/31/05
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| Project Description: The
objective of this project now met, was to improve
water quality by restoring riparian habitats,
improving salmon and steelhead habitat and
reducing sedimentation within the Russian River
and other North Coast watersheds. For further
information, please contact the Sotoyome RCD at
707/569-1448. |
| Project Outcome: (3/2006 Update) The Fish Friendly Farming Program certified 54 farms and farmers in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties in fisheries and aquatic resources conservation farming techniques, including sustainable watershed restoration projects such as the planting of native vegetation, and erosion prevention structures on many of these farms. The landowners provided cost share funding for much of this work, with sustainable downstream benefits to the multiple public resources of the watersheds. |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2002
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Permit Coordination for Best Management Practices (BMP's) in the North Coast Watershed |
Sustainable Conservation
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$129,950
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| Project Description & Outcome: (3/2006 Update) This project has streamlined and
coordinated permits needed in Humboldt County watersheds and the Scott River and Shasta
River Valley Watersheds to more efficiently and sustainably complete the needed road
repair and associated watershed improvement work to quickly result in an
annual sediment load reduction of approximately 1,500 tons/year along some
nearly 7,700 stream and river miles. This accomplishment greatly reduces road and
stream and river bank erosion damage, and improves overall water quality and habitat
for salmon and steelhead, as well as visual water clarity. |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2002
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South Fork Trinity River Watershed Restoration Project |
Trinity County Resource Conservation District (RCD)
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$450,000
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| Project Description: (3/2006 Update)
This project involved native revegetation of a number of roadcuts to prevent
erosion and the resulting sedimentation and siltation of the downstream
watershed, and improvement of road stream crossings for the same purposes.
Both these road improvement techniques have also improved downstream salmon and
steelhead habitat and water quality. |
| Project Outcome: (4/2006 Update) The project outcome is a
reduction of approximately 27,000 tons of sediment along over 1,160 miles of
downstream streams and rivers in this large watershed. View photos of
the restoration work at the RCD’s web site at http://www.tcrcd.net/sftr_wshed_restor.htm.
Contact Cynthia Tarwater for more information at: 530/623-6004. |
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Grant Year |
Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2002
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Fish Friendly Sediment Reduction in the Garcia River |
Sotoyome Resource Conservation District (RCD)
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$453,300
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| Project Description: Contact the Sotoyome District at 707/569-1448 |
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Project Title |
Contracting Agency |
Contract Number |
Amount Awarded |
Term |
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2002
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Priority Sediment Reduction in the Garcia River |
Mendocino County Dept. of Transportation
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$214,340
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| Project Description: (coming soon) |
| Project Outcome: (coming soon) |
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2003
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Humbolt Bay Water Quality Improvement
Program (HBWQIP) |
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03-212-551-0
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6/2004 - 3/2006
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| Project Description: The
HBWQIP is a program devoted to the protection
and improvement of the water quality of Humboldt
Bay and its tributaries. Current issues
degrading the watershed’s water quality
are high levels of sediment from erosion and
bacterial contamination from non-point source
pollution (polluted runoff). The HBWQIP
will improve water quality through a joint effort
of local agency and citizen non-point source
pollution monitoring, and also through education
and public outreach. |
| Project Outcome: (coming
soon) |
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