Goat Canyon Enhancement Project

Goat Canyon Enhancement Project

The California Department of Fish and Game is executing a Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreement number 1600-2006-0096-R5 pursuant to Section 1602 of the Fish and Game Code to the project applicant, California State Parks. The applicant proposes to alter the stream to perform periodic maintenance of the Goat Canyon Sedimentation Basins and associated wetland mitigation sites. The Goat Canyon Sedimentation Basins were constructed in 2003-2005 under Streambed Alteration Agreement #R5-2003-0100. The newly constructed basins need to be maintained at least annually to properly perform their function. Low impact maintenance such as manual trash collection, BMP maintenance, manual weed control, biological monitoring, and irrigation repair will occur throughout the year. To remove sediment from the basins, large dozers will push the sediment towards the edges of the basins, and excavators will load it into trucks to be hauled to the adjacent staging area/soil processing pad. Care will be taken to minimize the disturbance to vegetation on the upper parts of the interior basin slopes. Once on the processing pad, loaders will take the material to a soil processing machine that separates the tires, trash, and rocks from the soil. The processed soil will be stockpiled on the pad and removed as it is sold. Tires and trash will be hauled away by licensed waste haulers.

San Diego