Transcript Paynes and Antelope Creek

AFRP Area of Coverage
Paynes and Antelope Creek
Antelope Creek:
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123 square miles
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Fall-run Chinook, spring-run Chinook,
steelhead.
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32 miles of anadromous habitat (historical
and present)
Paynes Creek:
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93 square miles (59,540 acres)
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Fall-run Chinook salmon.
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Unknown miles of anadromous habitat
Issues affecting Salmonid
Production in Antelope and Paynes
Creeks
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Data gaps regarding fish distribution, and
passage, flow, and entrainment limiting
factors caused by agricultural diversions
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Limiting factors involving habitat
conditions (spawning gravel, channel
structure) have not been addressed to a
large extent
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Fish population information is limited and
sporadic
Watershed Accomplishments
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Tehama East Watershed
Assessment, Watershed
Management Plan
Antelope Creek-Edwards Dam Fish
Ladder (AFRP)
Tehama Wildlife Area
Crossing (in progress)
Upper watershed fuels
and erosion control
Upcoming and Current Projects
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Antelope Creek Fish Bypass,
Edwards and Los Molinos
Mutual IC Diversions
Lower Antelope Creek
Geomorphological Study (in
progress)
Antelope Creek Crossing
Repair in the Tehama
Wildlife Area (ongoing)
Mill Creek
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134 square miles
Spring-run Chinook, Fall-run Chinook,
late fall-run, and steelhead
44 miles of anadromous fish habitat
(historical and present)
Issues affecting Salmonid
Production
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Lower watershed instream habitat conditions
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Noxious weed control / riparian habitat quality
and quantity
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Potential for catastrophic fire impacts
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Development
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Maintaining conditions for fish passage
Watershed Accomplishments
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Twelve AFRP-funded
projects
AFRP staff well integrated
with local watershed efforts
and the Mill Creek
Conservancy
CALFED grants completed
an upper watershed
assessment (Forest
Service), road erosion
inventory and road
improvements, and
restoration projects.
Bureau of Reclamation
grant to identify irrigation
efficiency projects,
minimum flows required for
fish passage, and passage
issues/project
Long term water exchange
and/or rights acquisition
underway
Upcoming and Current Projects
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Water right acquisition / easements
Riparian assessment (just initiated)
Assessment of fish passage at
diversions and siphons (just initiated)
Deer Creek
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208 Square Miles
Fall-run, late fall-run and spring-run
Chinook salmon, and steelhead
40 miles of anadromous fish habitat
(historical and present)
Issues affecting Salmonid
Production
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Maintaining fish passage over dams
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Instream habitat quality
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Obtaining adequate flow conditions during passage
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Flood management
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Development
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Noxious weeds / Riparian habitat quality and quantity
Watershed Accomplishments
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Seven AFRP-funded projects
completed
AFRP staff well integrated with
local watershed efforts and the
Deer Creek Watershed
Conservancy
CALFED grants completed an
upper watershed assessment
(Forest Service), road erosion
inventory and road improvements,
restoration projects, watershed
coordinator, floodplain feasibility
study in the lower watershed (still in
development), ranch management
planning, meadow restoration,
conservation easements, updating
the watershed strategy, noxious
weed removal (Arrundo donax),
water quality monitoring, water use
efficiency projects, and
environmental education.
(DCID project): Four Pumps
funding has been used to develop
water exchanges via groundwater
use
Upcoming and Current Projects
◦ Floodplain feasibility study
implementation (Phase II)
◦ Negotiation on water exchange
program, DCID, DWR, DFG
◦ Fish Passage at Lower Deer Creek Falls
(AFRP or NFPP)
Cottonwood Creek
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934 square miles
Spring-run, Fall-run, late fall-run, and
steelhead.
83 miles of anadromous fish habitat
(historical and present)
Issues affecting Salmonid
Production
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Data gaps on straying/stranding, water quality, erosion, and
habitat conditions caused by land management practices (e.g.
gravel mining, agriculture, development).
Population and Life History Information—Cottonwood Creek
fish population information is limited and sporadic does not
have consistent survey effort other than Beegum Creek springrun Chinook inventories
Limiting factors involving habitat conditions (spawning gravel,
channel structure) have not been addressed to a large extent.
Geomorphological stability
Severe bank erosion and riparian habitat loss
Land development
Non-native plant invasion
Instream gravel mining impacts
Future impacts of the slide in Slides Glade, South Fork
Cottonwood Creek
Trespass, dumping and damaging recreational practices
Watershed Accomplishments
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AFRP staff well integrated with local
watershed efforts and are technical
advisors to the Cottonwood Creek
Watershed Group.
CALFED funding for watershed
assessment, watershed
management strategy, a watershed
management plan, a
geomorphological analysis of
portions of the lower watershed,
and an environmental education
grant.
Grant funding for fire
prevention/fuelbreaks, riparian
inventory / noxious weed
mapping (NRCS grant), aerial
photography, riparian
restoration (USFWS Partners
for Fish and Wildlife).
ACID Siphon (AFRP-funded)
Programmatic Safe Harbor
Agreement, CA Red-legged Frog
Upcoming/Ongoing Projects
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Phase II,
Geomorphological
Analysis, Cottonwood
Creek (AFRP, ongoing)
Fall Run Chinook
salmon escapement
evaluation using Video
Weir technology (AFRP
initiated)
NIS Removal, SF
Cottonwood Creek
(ongoing, AFRP)
Fish Passage, SF
Cottonwood, Hammer
Diversion
Mid watershed fuels
management
Cow Creek
• 429 square miles
• Fall-run Chinook, late fall-run Chinook,
steelhead, steelhead Critical Habitat,
spring Chinook CH.
• Miles of anadromous habitat (historical
and present) not yet quantified however
thought to be below 1000 foot in elevation
• 164.4 river miles in five major tributaries
and mainstem
Factors Affecting Salmonid
Production
• Data gaps on straying/stranding, water quality, erosion, and
habitat conditions caused by land management practices (e.g.
gravel mining, agriculture, development).
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• Population and Life History Information—Cow Creek fish
population information is limited and sporadic does not have
consistent survey effort
• Limiting factors involving habitat conditions (spawning gravel,
channel structure) have not been addressed to a large extent.
• Fish passage over diversion dams
• Land development
• Non-native plant invasion
Watershed Accomplishments
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AFRP staff well integrated with
local watershed efforts and are
technical advisors to the Cow
Creek Watershed Management
Group.
Watershed Assessment
Management Plan (AFRP)
Water Quality Studies (AFRP &
RWQCB)
Two fish screens (only 2 in
system, CDFG & RWQCB)
Various restoration projects
with EQIP and CDFG funding
Tailwater pond pilot project
Fall-run Chinook salmon
escapement evaluation using
Video Weir technology (AFRP)
Upcoming and Ongoing Projects
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Clover Creek-Millville diversion
dam and siphon restoration
project (environmental
compliance – AFRP)
Fall-Chinook escapement
evaluation using video weir
technology (AFRP-initiated)
Ditch piping pilot study
Riparian Habitat Assessment
(AFRP)
Cook and Butcher Diversion Dam
Restoration Project (AFRP or
NFPP—funding pending)
Fish barrier Assessment (AFRP)
Cow Creek Watershed Anadromous Fish
Passage Assessment and Prioritization for
Remediation Project
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Final restoration Plan, AFRP: Four
actions were identified for the
restoration of anadromous fish in Cow
Creek. Two of these actions include
screen all diversions to protect all life
history stages of anadromous fish, and
improve passage at agricultural
diversion dams.
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The need for a barrier inventory is also
identified within the Cow Creek
Watershed Management Plan (2005)
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Project goal: To identify, classify, and
map anadromous fish passage barriers
within the Cow Creek Watershed. In
addition, this project is to prioritize
anthropogenic barriers for remediation
and identify diversion screening needs.
Methods
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Techniques used in:
1) the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
(WDFW). 2009. Fish passage and surface water diversion
screening assessment and prioritization manual. Olympia
(WA): Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife;
2) Third Edition, Volume II, Part IX of the California
Salmonid Stream Habitat Restoration Manual (Manual)
for road crossing barrier analyses.
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Three anadromous salmonid species use Cow Creek, fall run
Chinook salmon, late-fall run Chinook salmon, and steelhead.
Barriers are to be classified by species, age class, and flow.
Potential barrier types that may be encountered could include
diversion dams, natural falls, subterranean flow, chutes, cascades, and road crossings. Any
diversions or pumps are to be assessed in regards to meeting screening criteria as
developed by CDFG and NMFS as described in Appendix S, December 2002 and May 2010
editions of the Manual.
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A total barrier is a feature that no species or age class can pass at any flow. Partial barriers
are to be classified as to what species and lifestage, and at what flow(s).
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Analyzing the natural barriers currently identified early in the process will assist in
determining the range of anadromy and thus assist in determining the extent of surveys.
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Timeline
Collect and Synthesize Existing
Information: September 2011 to
October 2011
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Kick-off meeting and Workplan:
October 2011 (10/11/11 was date
of public meeting)
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Obtain access: October 2011 to
January 201
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Validate Natural Barriers:
Winter / Spring 2012
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Field Inventory below natural
barriers: Summer / Fall 2012
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Identify Priorities and Develop
Geodatabase: By March 2013
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Draft Report: June 2013
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Final Report: September 2013
Contact Information
Northern Area AFRP
• Tricia Parker Hamelberg, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, (530) 527-3043, [email protected]
• Brenda Olson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
(530) 527-3043, [email protected] or
• Tricia Bratcher, CA Dept. of Fish and Game,
(530) 225-3845, [email protected]
• Also visit the AFRP website at: http://www.fws.gov/stockton/afrp/
Photos courtesy of D. Bickford and P. Bratcher