M&T Chico Ranch/Llano Seco Rancho Fish Screen Facility Short-Term Protection Project

M&T Chico Ranch/Llano Seco Rancho Fish Screen Facility Short-Term Protection Project

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), along with the M&T Chico Ranch and Llano Seco Rancho, are proposing to implement interim measures to protect and maintain the viability of the M&T Chico Ranch/Llano Seco Rancho fish screen and pumping facility (M&T/Llano Seco Pumps Facility) to meet existing CDFW and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) fish screen criteria and to provide a reliable water supply to farmland, Federal wildlife management areas, and a CDFW wildlife area. The Proposed Project, located at approximately River Mile 192.5 on the Sacramento River, includes: (1) implementation of up to two additional maintenance dredging operations; (2) a time extension for the temporary rock-toe and tree revetment installed in 2007 to remain in place on the USFWS Capay Unit of the SRNWR, and what is now The Nature Conservancy (TNC) fee title property immediately south of the Capay Unit until a long-term solution is developed and completed; (3) ongoing monitoring and maintenance of the revetment, which would extend until a long-term solution is developed and completed. These measures, in concert, are intended to sustain the viability of the M&T/Llano Seco Pumps Facility, including meeting existing fish screen criteria, and water supply and delivery responsibilities, as well as to maintain the viability of a range of alternatives under consideration for a long-term solution.

Chico

Butte, Glenn