Stream Maintenance Program

Stream Maintenance Program

The project consists of three components that together would meet the objectives of the project: Routine Maintenance Activities would consist of modifications to the Agency's routine stream maintenance and flood protection activities to protect threatened species in accordance with the Section 7 Consultation and to enhance riparian habitat. The modifications are anticipated to include transitioning the Agency's engineered channels into waterways that not only provide adequate flood protection, but also provide good riparian habitat and water quality. Flood Control Design Criteria would consist of revising the Agency's Flood Control Design Criteria to incorporate modifications resulting from the Section 7 Consultation and to reflect updated flood control design methodologies. Recreational Access would include an evaluation of the Agency's flood control channels to identify those most suitable for public recreational use. This could include opening roadways currently used for maintenance access to public pedestrian use and bicycle trails by replacing gates with bollards; installing signage; and resurfacing access roads with either gravel or asphalt. Adapting flood control channels for recreational access would encourage pedestrian circulation and provide public access to the stream corridor along with linkage to other transportation networks.

Sonoma

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region 1 (RWQCB), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California State Lands Commission (SLC)

California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California State Lands Commission (SLC)

Other (Stream Maintenance)

Stream Maintenance

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Coastal Zone, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Fiscal Impacts, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, Wildlife, Other