Garcia River Estuary Salmonid Habitat Enhancement Project - Phase 1 Implementation

Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Acquisition

Project ID	1611968204114
Recovery Domains	N Central California Coast
Start Date	11/18/2021
End Date	04/30/2025
Year	2019
Status	Ongoing
Last Edited	05/14/2024

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Description

The project objectives are to re-establish complex in-channel and off-channel habitat. The project will construct 12 engineered log jams and 6 multi-log habitat structures. The project will provide extensive complex shelter and will help create/maintain side channel to help improve salmonid access to the floodplain. Revegetation of the excavated floodplain will also provide high flow refugia, winter rearing habitat, and rich feeding areas.

Project Benefit

The project will provide critical missing habitat elements that are needed to maximize juvenile salmonid survival and growth in the resource-rich middle estuary zone. Over 34,000 square feet of in-channel complex log features, spatially distributed along the length of the ½ mile-long middle estuary, will be built. Two floodplain wetland inlets and three seasonally-flooded shallow ponds will be graded and revegetated to provide over 2+ acres of off-channel rearing habitat.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Instream Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

.50

Estuarine Habitat

Acres Created

Acres Treated

5.0

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$757,373

Report Total:

$757,373

Worksites

1611968204338

Worksite Identifier: 1611968204338
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Garcia River Middle Estuary

Location Information

Basin:
Subbasin:
Watershed:
Subwatershed:

State: California
Recovery Domain: N Central California Coast
Latitude: 38.948106
Longitude: -123.729586

ESU

California Coastal Chinook Salmon ESU
Central California Coast Coho Salmon ESU
Northern California Steelhead DPS

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Metrics

C.0 Salmonid Habitat Restoration and AcquisitionY (Y/N)
- . . C.0.a Habitat restoration and acquisition funding .00
- . . C.0.b Length of stream treated/protected
- . . C.0.c
  Project identified in a Plan or Watershed Assessment
- . . C.0.d.1 Project Monitoring (LOV)
- . . C.0.d.2 Monitoring Location (LOV)
- . . C.4 Instream Habitat ProjectY (Y/N)
  - . . . . C.4.a Instream Habitat Funding
  - . . . . C.4.b Total length of instream habitat treated
  - . . . . C.4.c.1 Channel reconfiguration and connectivityY (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.4.c.2 Type of change to channel configuration and connectivity (LOV)
    - . . . . . . C.4.c.5 Acres of off-channel or floodplain connected through channel reconfiguration and connectivity
  - . . . . C.4.d.1 Channel structure placementY (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.4.d.2 Material used for channel structure (LOV)
    - . . . . . . C.4.d.3 Miles of stream treated through channel structure placement
    - . . . . . . C.4.d.7 Number of structures placed in channel
  - . . C.9 Estuarine/Nearshore ProjectY (Y/N)
    - . . . . C.9.a Estuarine/nearshore funding
    - . . . . C.9.b Total amount of estuarine/nearshore area treated
    - . . . . C.9.i.1 Regrading of slopeY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . C.9.i.2 Acres of estuary treated
    - . . . . C.9.r.1 Estuarine plantingY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . C.9.r.3 Acres of estuary treated