Upper Sproul Creek Habitat Enhancement Project

Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Acquisition

Project ID	1640903383420
Recovery Domains	-
Start Date	04/28/2022
End Date	04/05/2024
Year	2019
Status	Completed
Last Edited	08/26/2024

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Description

This project was the construction of 61 Large Wood (LW) structures with a total of 162 pieces of LW, including 75 key pieces along 2.0 miles of Upper Sproul creek. The purpose of the Project was to improve the quality and quantity of habitat available to salmonids in Sproul Creek. The Project accomplished this by increasing the frequency of floodplain and side channel inundation, increasing pool and flatwater shelter, increasing pool and flatwater depths, providing velocity refugia, sorting substrate, and aggrading the channel. Areas disturbed by the project were mulched and replanted with conifer tree seedlings.

Project Benefit

This project will benefit salmonids by increasing the availability of velocity refugia, increasing instream and off channel shelter, and by improving spawning substrate availability.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Instream Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

2.00

Riparian Habitat

Stream Miles Treated

.38

.37

Acres Treated

1.9

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$257,454

In-Kind Donated Labor

$85,330

In-Kind Other

$81,000

Report Total:

$423,784

Worksites

1640903383672

Worksite Identifier: 1640903383672
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Upper Sproul Creek

Location Information

Basin:
Subbasin:
Watershed:
Subwatershed:

State:
Recovery Domain:
Latitude: 40.03099
Longitude: -123.86838

ESU

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

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Metrics

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

. . C.0.a Habitat restoration and acquisition funding 413,784.00
. . C.0.b Length of stream treated/protected 2.00

. . C.0.c

Project identified in a Plan or Watershed Assessment
Final Recovery Plan for the Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit of Coho Salmon (NMFS, 2014) South Fork Eel River Assessment Report (CDFW, 2014) Stream Inventory Report Sproul Creek (CDFW, 2016)

. . 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 410,784.39
- . . . . C.4.b Total length of instream habitat treated 2.00
- . . . . 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 2.00
  - . . . . . . C.4.d.5 Pools expected to be created through channel structure placement 0
  - . . . . . . C.4.d.7 Number of structures placed in channel 61
- . . C.5 Riparian Habitat ProjectY (Y/N)
  - . . . . C.5.a Riparian Habitat Funding 3,000.00
  - . . . . C.5.b.1 Total riparian miles streambank treated .38
  - . . . . C.5.b.2 Total Riparian Acres Treated 1.9
  - . . . . C.5.c.1 Riparian plantingY (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.5.c.2
      Species of plants planted in riparian
      
      Sequoia sempervirens
    - . . . . . . C.5.c.3 Acres planted in riparian 1.9
    - . . . . . . C.5.c.4 Miles of streambank treated with riparian planting .38