Lower Yolo Bypass Restoration Project
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Summary
- SCH Number
- 2011032001
- Lead Agency
- State and Federal Contractors Water Agency
- Document Title
- Lower Yolo Bypass Restoration Project
- Document Type
- EIR - Draft EIR
- Received
- Document Description
- The Project is being undertaken in cooperation with the CA DWR and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as partial fulfillment of the 8,000-acre tidal restoration targets contained within the Reasonable and Prudent Alternative of the 2008 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Delta Smelt Biological Opinion, and referenced in the 2009 National Marine Fisheries Service Salmonid Biological Opinion, and referenced in the 2009 National Marine Fisheries Service Salmonid Biological Opinion, issued for continuing operations of DWR's State Water Project (SWP) and the Reclamation's Central Valley Project (CVP). The Project may also serve as partial fulfillment of tidal restoration objectives anticipated under the forthcoming Bay Delta Conservation Plan. SFCWA proposes to convert existing agricultural lands to wetlands, thereby creating about 1,226 acres of perennial emergent marsh (tidal).
- Contact Information
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Tara Beltran
State and Federal Contractors Water Agency
1121 L Street, Suite 806
Sacramento, CA 95814
916 476 5056
Location
- Counties
- Yolo
- Regions
- Unincorporated
- Cross Streets
- Near junction of Levee & Delhi roads; and County Road 155, east of County Road 104
- Parcel #
- numerous
- Waterways
- Shag Slough/Tule Canal Yolo Bypass
Notice of Completion
- Review Period Start
- Review Period End
- Development Type
- Other (Wetlands Restoration)
- Local Action
- Other Action Other Action: Wetlands Restoration
- Project Issues
- Other Issues Cumulative Effects Landuse Growth Inducing Wetland/Riparian Water Quality Vegetation Toxic/Hazardous Soil Erosion/Compaction/Grading Public Services Flood Plain/Flooding Drainage/Absorption Biological Resources Archaeologic-Historic Air Quality Agricultural Land Other Issues: GHG
- Reviewing Agencies
- Department of Conservation California Department of Parks and Recreation Central Valley Flood Protection Board Department of Fish and Wildlife, Region 2 Department of Toxic Substances Control Department of Water Resources Native American Heritage Commission Regional Water Quality Control Bd., Region 5 (Sacramento) Resources Agency State Lands Commission