Yellowjacket Creek Fish Passage Improvement Project

Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Acquisition

Project ID	725154
Recovery Domains	N Central California Coast
Start Date	06/01/2017
End Date	10/24/2019
Year	2015
Status	Completed
Last Edited	01/14/2025

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Description

The Grantee, landowner, and contractors constructed 33 weirs (32 boulders and 1 concrete) to take up the grade below an existing diversion and provide fish passage to adult and juvenile salmonids. They also installed a new fish screen at the diversion that meets agency screening criteria. The Yellowjacket Creek Fish Passage Improvement Project restored juvenile and adult coho salmon and steelhead trout access to 1.9 miles of spawning and rearing habitat on Yellowjacket Creek by modifying a concrete diversion dam weir structure, constructing 33 boulder step-pools, and installing a fish screen.

Project Benefit

Modifying the concrete weir will allow access to 1.9 miles of spawning and rearing habitat.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Fish Passage

Barriers Removed

Miles Opened

1.90

Fish Screens

Screens Installed

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$56,501

State

$253,828

Other

$208,046

Report Total:

$518,375

Worksites

7211404

Worksite Identifier: 7211404
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Yellowjacket Creek Weir

Location Information

Basin: Northern California Coastal (180101)
Subbasin: Russian (18010110)
Watershed:
Subwatershed:

State: California
Recovery Domain: N Central California Coast
Latitude: 38.634408
Longitude: -122.663339

ESU

Central California Coast Steelhead DPS

Map

Photos

Metrics

C.0 Salmonid Habitat Restoration and AcquisitionY (Y/N)

. . C.0.a Habitat restoration and acquisition funding 518,375.00
. . C.0.b Length of stream treated/protected .14

. . C.0.c

Project identified in a Plan or Watershed Assessment
California Department of Fish and Game, 2006, Stream Inventory Report: Redwood Creek, California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, CA

. . C.0.d.1 Project Monitoring (LOV)
. . C.0.d.2 Monitoring Location (LOV)
. . C.1 Fish Screening ProjectY (Y/N)
- . . . . C.1.a Fish screen funding 259,187.00
- . . . . C.1.c.1 Fish screens installedY (Y/N)
  - . . . . . . C.1.c.2 Number of new fish screens installed 1
  - . . . . . . C.1.c.3 Flow rate of screened water 4 (cfs)
- . . C.2 Fish Passage ImprovementY (Y/N)
  - . . . . C.2.a Fish Passage Funding 259,188.00
  - . . . . C.2.b.1 Length of stream made accessible 1.90
  - . . . . C.2.b.3 Type of blockage/barrier (LOV)
  - . . . . C.2.b.4 Number of blockages/impediments/barriers impeding passage 1
  - . . . . C.2.c.1 Fish passage blockages removed or altered (other than road crossings reported in C.2.f to C.2.i)Y (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.2.c.2 Number of blockages/impediments/barriers removed/altered 1
  - . . . . C.2.d.1 Fishway chutes or pools installedY (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.2.d.2 Number of fishway chutes/pools installed 33