Cedar Creek Hatchery Dam Removal: Planning and Design to 100%

Salmonid Restoration Planning and Assessments

Project ID	1578345106469
Recovery Domains	N Central California Coast
Start Date	03/16/2020
End Date	05/17/2022
Year	2019
Status	Completed
Last Edited	03/12/2024

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Description

Developed 100% plans to remove the Cedar Creek Hatchery Dam. In addition to designs, feasibility studies (evaluation of habitat and analysis of potential outcomes) were conducted. All FY16 PCSRF funds were spent within the award period (even though the project ended outside the FY16 award period).

Project Benefit

The goal of this Project is to complete all the necessary surveys and assessments, planning, and 100% engineering design to demolish and remove an existing concrete diversion dam and associated structures on Cedar Creek which is a migration barrier to anadromous salmonids. Once designs are implemented upstream access for all salmonid life stages will be restored.

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$263,032

Report Total:

$263,032

Worksites

1578345106672

Worksite Identifier: 1578345106672
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Cedar Creek Dam

Location Information

Basin: Northern California Coastal (180101)
Subbasin: South Fork Eel (18010106)
Watershed: Upper South Fork Eel River (1801010601)
Subwatershed: Cedar Creek-South Fork Eel River (180101060105)

State: California
Recovery Domain: N Central California Coast
Latitude: 39.83985
Longitude: -123.7075

ESU

California Coastal Chinook Salmon ESU
Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast Coho Salmon ESU
Northern California Steelhead DPS

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Metrics

B.0 Salmonid Restoration Planning and AssessmentsY (Y/N)

. . B.0.a Planning And Assessment Funding 263,032.00
. . B.0.b.1 Area Encompassed 9,728.0
. . B.0.b.2 Stream Miles Affected

. . B.1 Restoration Planning And CoordinationY (Y/N)

. . . . B.1.a Planning and Coordination funding 263,031.70

. . . . B.1.b.8 Conducting habitat restoration scoping and feasibility studiesY (Y/N)

. . . . . . B.1.b.8.a

Name of plan implemented
Recovery Plan for the Southern Oregon/ Northern California Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), National Marine Fisheries Service. Arcata, CA.

. . . . . . B.1.b.8.b

Description and scope of the plan implemented

The project will accomplish SONCC-SFER.5.1.74.2 by preparing engineering designs and construction plans for the removal of the fish barrier, which, once implemented, will allow migration into Cedar Creek. The engineering design phase will evaluate alternative water management approaches, will evaluate and delineate the concrete dam and abutment structures for demolition and removal of the concrete dam structure down to the natural bed elevation, and will analyze the potential destabilizing action on the abutment structures and bedrock canyon walls from removal of the concrete dam and abutments.

. . . . B.1.b.11 Engineering/design work for restoration projectsY (Y/N)

. . . . . . B.1.b.11.a

Name of plan implemented
National Marine Fisheries Service, 2014, Final Recovery Plan for the Southern Oregon/ Northern California Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), National Marine Fisheries Service. Arcata, CA.

. . . . . . B.1.b.11.b