Overview
The goals of the project are to:
(2) Decrease streambank failures in the lower watershed, thereby decreasing soil erosion and downstream siltation to improve habitat for fish and wildlife.
(3) Provide alternative stream restoration strategies instead of traditional concrete lining of the watershed's streams and improve habitat for fish and wildlife.
Three sites were chosen to demonstrate alternative bioengineering techniques to repair streambank failures:
Palomares, Cull Canyon, Eden Canyon Creek Restoration
Palomares Creek Project (news article)
Palomares Creek Project (contractor's statement of work)
Funding
$344,000 (US EPA 319(h) grant via State Water Resources Control Board)
$181,000 (Alameda County Public Works Agency)
$61,000 inkind (Alameda County Public Works Agency)
Dates
March 2001 - October 2004
Carla Schultheis
Alameda County Flood Control &
Water Conservation District
951 Turner Court, Room 300
Hayward, CA 94545
Tel: 510.670.5576
Fax: 510.670.5262