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Title: DUTCH BILL CREEK FISH PASSAGE IMPROVEMENT
Creator: Deborah Hirst
Date Created and/or Issued: 2008
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
Collection: Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI)
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Abstract: The proposed authorization will enable the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District (GRRCD) to restore fish passage to 3.4 miles (17,950 feet) of Dutch Bill Creek by removing the dam at Camp Meeker and retrofitting the culvert at Market Street in Occidental, in western Sonoma County. The project will also improve public access across the creek by installing an 80-foot pedestrian bridge at Camp Meeker. The proposed project will effectively remove the last two remaining fish barriers on the mainstem of Dutch Bill Creek. The Camp Meeker Dam and the culvert under Market Street are identified as Sonoma County's Numbers 2 and 5 priority barriers to fish passage in the Russian River Stream Crossing Inventory and Fish Passage Evaluation (Ross Taylor and Associates, 2003). Dutch Bill Creek is one of only five remaining streams in the Russian River system where wild juvenile coho are known to exist for each year of the species' three year reproduction life cycle. The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) identifies Dutch Bill Creek, within the Guerneville Hydrologic Subarea, as having the highest possible rank for restoration and management potential in the Central California Coast Coho Evolutionarily Significant Units in the Recovery Strategy for California Coho Salmon (DFG, 2004).
Scope/Content: Author affiliation: Coastal Conservancy
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/86086/n22z155x
825
Subject: Dams
Dam retirement
Place: Russian River, CA
Camp Meeker Dam

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