Zanker Farm Salmonid Restoration Project
Summary
SCH Number
2025040003
Public Agency
Stanislaus County
Document Title
Zanker Farm Salmonid Restoration Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/1/2025
Document Description
Restoration of the Zanker project area was identified as high priority in the Lower Tuolumne River Corridor Restoration Plan due to degraded channel and habitat conditions following gold mining and streamflow regulation. Restoration of the Project Reach aims to replace a single large, homogeneous, deep, bedrock-bottom with diversity of rittles, pools, gravel bars, side channels, and floodplain habitats to increase salmonid spawning habitat and benefit all life stages of salmonoids. Outside of the channel, the Project aims to remediate the impacts of historical dredger mining, which inverted the soil profile and left floodplain and terrace surfaces armored with gravel and cobble. The Project will excavate remnant scraped dredger mine tailings from floodplain and terrace surfaces on the Zanker Farm, wash and sort the gravel, and then place the gravel in-channel. The remaining excavated floodplain surfaces will be restored to a finer sediment substrate and then revegetated, providing rearing habitat at higher flows as well as opportunities for riparian forest recovery.
Contact Information
Name
Andrew Malizia
Agency Name
Stanislaus County Public Works
Job Title
Deputy Director
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Name
Ben Cook
Agency Name
Trout Unlimited
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
N/A
Counties
Stanislaus
Regions
Citywide, Countywide
Other Location Info
Lower Tuolumne River from River Mile 45.2 to River Mile 46.7
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
21080.56
Reasons for Exemption
The Zanker Farm Salmonid Restoration Project is a river restoration project that meets all requirements described in Public Resources Code section 21080.56 for CDFW's Statutory Exemption for Restoration Project. CDFW has concurred on 03/27/25 that the project meets all requirements and is exempt.
County Clerk
Stanislaus
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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