Butano Creek Backfield Floodplain and Streamflow Enhancement Project
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2023030775
Public Agency
San Mateo County Resource Conservation District
(SMCRCD)
Document Title
Butano Creek Backfield Floodplain and Streamflow Enhancement Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/30/2023
Document Description
The San Mateo Resource Conservation District designed this Project to benefit Central California Coast coho salmon, Central California Coast steelhead trout, California red-legged frog, San Francisco garter snake, and other native species as well as implement recommendations from the Pescadero-Butano Sediment TMDL. The Project includes floodplain reconnection, improved channel complexity, and instream low enhancement components, all of which will have direct and indirect benefits to instream and adjacent floodplain and terrestrial habitats. The Project will create 4.2 acres of stage zero floodplain by lowering the current floodplain surface by as much as several feet, allowing the stream to access the lowered floodplain during winter baseflow conditions. The Project will place 15 to 20 habitat structures (roughness elements) within the newly created floodplain surface and adds in-channel habitat features, including one engineered logjam and several post-assisted log structures/living riffles to improve complexity and arrest incision. The Project will also increase dry-season (June-October) flows in Butano Creek by expanding an existing off-channel storage pond from 3.5 to 14 acre-feet, and establishing a forbearance agreement.
Contact Information
Name
Christina Kelleher
Agency Name
San Mateo Resource Conservation District
Job Title
Conservation Project Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Pescadero
Counties
San Mateo
Regions
San Francisco Bay Area
Zip
94020
Waterways
Butano Creek
Other Location Info
The project address is: 4350 Cloverdale Road in Pescadero, San Mateo County, California, in the Pigeon Point, California U.S
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Statutory Exemption for Restoration Projects (SERP) Pub. Resources Code, 21080.56
Reasons for Exemption
The proposed Project will conserve, restore, protect, or enhance and assist in the recovery of California native fish and wildlife, and the habitat on which they depend. This project includes floodplain reconnection and flow enhancement component, both of which will have direct and indirect benefits to instream and adjacent floodplain and terrestrial habitats. The following provides a brief description of the project and an explanation for why the project has qualified for the Statutory Exemption for Restoration Projects (Pub. Resources Code, 21080.56).
County Clerk
San Mateo
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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