FY 2012 March 1
Trinity River Restoration Program Loc

Additional Monitoring 

112 river miles from 

Locations Trinity R

3,000 

Trinity River –largest tributary of the Klamath River

Lewiston Dam to 

Klamath River confluence

Primary TRRP Project Area

(40 River Miles)

jp1
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jp1 suggest deleting this..while the program does support some monitoring activities down here it may be more p

them on this slide since by noting it here could imply and equal "status" of the primary project area.Joe Polos, 3/13/2012
TRRP Background TRRP Background

• Central Valley Project Improvement Act of 1992 – P.L. 10

34 (CVPIA) 34 (CVPIA)

- legal authority for projects that restore the fis

legal authority for projects that restore the fis

resources of the Trinity River.

• Trinity River Flow Evaluation Final Report (TRFES) prepa

U S Fish and Wildlife Service and the Hoopa Valley Tribe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Hoopa Valley Tribe 

and HVT, 1999)

• Trinity River Environmental Impact Statement (TREIS/R) 

and Wildlife Service et al 2000) and Wildlife Service et al. 2000)

• Implementation Plan for the Preferred Alternative of the T

(2000)

• R d f D i i (ROD U S D t t f th I t i 

Recor

d o

f

Decision (ROD; U.S. Depar

tmen

t o

f the In

terior 

summarizes guidance in all of the above

• Master EIS (2009

)
Record of Decision Activi

• Flow Management Flow Management

– a variable flow regime based on five water a variable flow regime based on five water-

• Mechanical Channel Rehabilitation – treatments to reshape the 

channel form to allow physical processes to create and maintain 

• Sediment Management Sediment Management

– augmentation of spawning gravels and 

augmentation of spawning gravels and 

in fine sediments

• Watershed Restoration – a program to reduce fine sediment inp

Trinity River

• Infrastructure Improvements – modification of structures in the fl

allow restoration flows

• Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Monitoring – a rigorou

t it d i t ti ti iti th h i to monitor an

d improve restoration acti

vities throug

h experience

• Environmental Compliance and Mitigation – measures to minimi

eliminate short-term impacts
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jp2 deleted "to mimic natural flows" since there are many parts of the hydrograph where we do not mimic natura

Joe Polos, 3/13/2012
Restoration Approach

P t hil Promo

te p

hysical

processes 

Complex channel form 

Rearing and spawning 

habitat

Program G

Restore popula

naturally spawninnaturally spawnin

and steelhead to 

levels.
TRRP Funding TRRP Funding jp3
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jp3 Is this going to be the past budgets? That would probably be useful to have. Since the purpose of this presen

FY12 work plan you can include the FY12 proposed budget and then get rid of the slide that has out-year budAlso may want to mention that the full program funding identified in the EIS/ROD was ~$16 million per year fthen $XY million after that. I don't have these values off the top of my head right now. Joe Polos, 3/13/2012
TRRP 2011 Accomplishme

TRRP 2011 Accomplishme

• Wheel Gulch Project Wheel Gulch Project

- private lando

private lando

Caltrans (7 acres, 0.3 river miles)

• Highest ROD restoration release Highest ROD restoration release

– 3 days @ 11,000 cfs – largest release in 37 years largest release in 37 years– Well Grant Program reopened 

• G l i j ti Gravel in

jection 

– 2 it t t l 5 300 2 sites 

t

o

t

al 5,300 

– Mobilize and redistribute gravel
Wheel Gulch Project Wheel Gulch Project

• 7 acre site• 60/40 split flow channel 60/40 split flow channel• Low flow channel• Alcove• Wood geomorphic structures
• Six watershed projects 

– road improvements or decommis

road improvements or decommis

to reduce sediment and culvert re

to remove fish barriers to remove fish barriers

– rapid sediment assessments to q

watershed condition watershed condition

• 2011 analysis - 2009/10 sediment b

– sand content of the channel bed a

banks downstream from Lewiston 
Watershed Projects Watershed Projects

FY 2011 Projects TRRP 

($) 

Matc($) 

Middle Trinity Road Decommissioning and Upgrade 150,000 70Union Hill Road Improvement Union Hill Road Improvement 87,500 27 Indian Creek Rehabilitation and Sediment Control, Phase 2 107,000 West Weaver Creek Rapid Assessment 55,500 35Conner Creek Mi

gration Barrier 50,000 495

Browns Creek Road Sediment Assessment 42,300 Total FY2011 492,300 627

FY 2012 Projects TRRP 

($)

Matc($)

BLM Roads Sediment Reduction 260,000 50Lower East Weaver Creek Habitat and Infrastructure Project 76,000 27Sidne

y py Gulch at Forest Service Com

pound Feasibilit

y 90,000 14

Conner Creek Fish Passage Feasibility 50,000 8LiDAR Tributary Data Acquisition 20,000 16Total FY2012 496,000 115

TRRP W t h TRRP

W

aters

h

ed C t ib ti FY 2008 d

Contrib

utions, FY 2008-201

2: $1,934,0

Leveraged funds, FY 2008-2012: $2,019,5
Monitoring and Assessme

Monitoring and Assessme

• Biological

– Adult salmonid harvest and escapement monitoring Adult salmonid harvest and escapement monitoring

– 

status and trend information used to evaluate long-term ptoward achieving Program goals 

– Juvenile salmonid outmi

g g rant monitorin

g - assess the 

salmonid abundance, run timing, condition and health -

– Salmonid habitat assessment – assess the effects of re

actions on Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon rearing ha

– Riparian establishment and development – evaluate w

scour, encroachment, initiation and establishment objectivbeing met.

– Birds – Monitoring five focal species expected to show m

responses to habitat restoration: Tree Swallow, Yellow WYellow-breasted Chat, Song Sparrow, and Black-headed 
Fisheries Managers Fisheries Managers

US Fish and Wildlife Service – Federal TRRP Co-leadhtt // f / t /fi h i / ti iti /h bR t ti /d http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fi

s

heries

/acti

vities/h

abRestoration/d

CDFG –harvest, escapement, run size estimateshttp://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=KlamNOAA – NMFS Protected Resources Division

- salmon/steelhead of S. Oregon and California- SONCC draft recover

y plan

http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/recovery/SONCC.htmHoopa Valley Tribal Fisheries Dept –http://www hoopafisheries org/ http://www.hoopafisheries.org/Yurok Tribe Fisheries –http://www.yuroktribe.org/departments/fisheries/Fisherie
Monitoring and Assessme

Monitoring and Assessme

• Ph

ysical 

– Sediment transport - quantity of sediment (by size class) m

within each mainstem sub-reach under various release-hydrscenarios; used to develop a Sediment budget

– Bed mobility and scour - evaluate if established thresholds 

achieved 

– Implementation monitoring and analysis - monitoring act

need d t i f h bilit ti it d i d l 

d

e

d to inform re

h

abilit

ation site 

design an

d gravel augme

– Geomorphic assessment - quantify nature, extent, and rat

geomorphic change since 1980

– Linking sediment supply and channel complexity Linking sediment supply and channel complexity - morp

modeling to investigate specific daily release hydrographs aaugmentation scenarios that best promote development of tcomplex channel. 
New Approaches New Approaches

• External Peer Review External Peer Review

- all investigatio

all investigatio

design plans, reports and other products

• Sampling Design Sampling Design

– site specific/system

site specific/system

• Partnership-wide Data Management • Investigation Plan Database• Technical Work Groups – posted summ

Physical, Fish, Riparian/Wildlife, Temperature, Design, W

Flow, Data, and Interdisciplinary Team
Performance Measure

Performance Measure

Fish

Aquatic Habitat Aquatic Habitat Riparian 

Riparian 

Wildlife

http://www.trrp.net/?page_id=490
http://www.trrp.net/?page_id=490

Aquatic Habitat Measures•Restoration Water Volume Accounting•Increase and Maintain Coarse Sediment Storage Increase and Maintain Coarse Sediment Storage•Change in Fine Sediment Storage•Temperature Target Performance•Chinook and Coho Salmon Rearing HabitatFish Measures Fish Measures •Abundance of Naturally Produced Juvenile Chinook Salmon•Spawning Escapement of Naturally Produced Salmonids•Proportion of Natural Origin Salmonids Contributing to Total In-River Run•Distribution of Natural-Origin Chinook Salmon SpawnersWildlife Measures•Abundance Patterns Over Time for Riverine Birds•Abundance Patterns Over Time for Riparian Birds•Comparison of Turtles on the South Fork Trinity and Mainstem Trinity Comparison of Turtles on the South Fork Trinity and Mainstem TrinityRiparian VegetationMapping and Quantifying Riparian Vegetation
Big Questions

What we want to learn:

• Success of Program actions • Context for synthesis of Context for synthesis of

physical-biological responses 

• D l i ht f Develop weight of

evidence for adaptive management 

• Report to partners, decision-makers, 

policy makers policy makers, 

stakeholders, public 
New Results to Inform 

Ad i M apt ve 

Management

Upcoming Reports Upcoming Reports• Trinity River Restoration Program Ad

Salmonid Monitoring Evaluation (3/12

• Adult salmonid harvest and Adult salmonid harvest and escapem

escapem

CDFG, Hoopa and Yurok Tribes

• Juvenile salmonid outmigrant monito

Juvenile salmonid outmigrant monito

• Salmonid habitat assessment –

– 2011 i l d d i th Ph I i 2011 inclu

d

e

d in the Phase I review 
U iR t pcoming 

Repor

t

s

• Inte

grated Habitat Assessment of th

Upper Trinity River

• Riparian establishment and develo

Riparian establishment and develo

• Bed mobility and scour • Implementation monitoring and ana

–

pool scour/fill evaluation
2012 Activities 2012 Activities

• Annual Monitoring and Assessmen

Annual Monitoring and Assessmen

• Planned restoration activities 

- U J ti Cit Upper 

Junction Cit

y

- Lower Steiner Flat

- Bank Naturalization

• Phase 1 review – SAB/support con

& external review panel (8/12)

jp9
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jp9 Not sure how you want to deal with this but this was a FY11 activity that carried over until FY12 )which is com

activities). I've just added completion date for this since it was initiated in FY11.Joe Polos, 3/13/2012
Physical Habitat Assessments

• LiDAR and aerial photography LiDAR and aerial photography• Geomorphic Assessment• BathymetryFlow Scheduling•

Annual Flow Schedule 

–

-Flow proposals developed

3/19 Work Group recommendation3/20 Recommendations to TAMWG 

• Klamath River Fall Flows 

Flow Work Group memo –

recommendations/criteria
Outreach

2011• Public meetings: Wheel Gulch Project, Le

Public meetings: Wheel Gulch Project, Le

Townhall, Wood Workshop• Stakeholders meetings: TRGA – site plan

to-one (++), 2012 projects special meetings• Work Group Meeting Summaries

http://www trrp net/?s=work+group http://www.trrp.net/?s=work+group

2012• Doug y las City/Draft Environmental Documthe Lower Steiner Flat and Upper Junction Channel Rehabilitation Sites • P bli i t ti ith t l f ilit 

Public input meetings with external facilit
Questions ? Questions

?