CLEAR CREEK RESTORA

3406 (b)(12)

Matt Brown, FWS530-527-3043

Jim De Staso, Recla530-276-2046
Keswick

Reservoir

Whiskeytown

Lake

Clear Creek Red

Sacramento Rive

18 miles

Spring-run and steelhead(ESA threatened)

Fall-run andlate-fall-run
Clear Creek Funding Source

CVPIALocalOther FederalCALFED

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Program Expenditures (mil) Perce

Total expenditures $21.0 million sinc
Program Goals

FlowsGravelChannel restorationErosionPassageAdaptive management / monitor

Clear Creek Fish Restoration mandates habitat restoration pro
Passage at Saeltzer Dam
Completed in October 200
Erosion Control Completed
Channel Restoration Project

2 mile reachRebuild floodplains / realign channel
Channel Restoration Project

3A

Completed Phases 1-3A

2A

1 2B

2B
Complete Pha

Summer 2002

Channel Restoration Project

Old alignment
Sept 2002 May 20

Phase 3A

Channel Restoration Project

342 % increase in use of spawning habitat

Highest densities of juvenile rearing
Spawning Gravel Additions

82,700 tons - $1.2 million
Monitoring

• Fish: adult counts

juvenile counts, stranding

• Spawning gravel• Geomorphic characteristics• Riparian revegetation• Birds
Program Goals (1996 to prese

Flows – IFIM started in FY 2004Gravel – in perpetuityChannel – 4 phases completed

one or two phases to comple

Erosion - CompletedPassage - CompletedMonitoring – Ongoing
Fiscal Year 2005 Budge

Reclamation WRR: $0

Restoration Fund: $800,0
Channel Restoration Project

Phase 3B

Pha

Fiscal Year 2005
Fiscal Year 2005

Channel Restoration Phase 3BCurrently being designed ($97,000 CVCALFED considers 3B a Directed Actio
Oct 1995 Oct 2000

Fiscal Year 2005

Channel Restoration Phase 3BSevere headcutting is occurring
Fiscal Year 2005

Inject at Whiskeytown Dam, Dog Gulch,and NEED Camp ($140,000)Continue Gravel Management Plan ($24,0Fund ESSA for gravel transport model ($4Monitoring continues

Spawning gravel management / additio

CVPIA $206,000
Fiscal Year 2005

October - June: 200 cfs

July - September: ~ 75 cfs

(temperature control at Igo)

Interim Base Flows:
IFIM

Red Bluff field support of $69,000

Fiscal Year 2005

Conducted by the FWS Sacramento

Determine long-termflow requirements
CALFED Environmental Water Prog

Clear Creek Geomorphic Flow Pro

Reactivate geomorphic processes to re-cremaintain the diverse habitats in Clear Cree

Fiscal Year 2005

Large scale adaptive management flow exper4,000-6,000 cfs, for 2 to 3 days, 3 times over t
Preparation of a full proposal, expected to take 

18 months

Fiscal Year 2005

CALFED Environmental Water Prog

Clear Creek Geomorphic Flow Pro

Reclamation & ESSA analyzing dam safety and floConceptual proposal reviewed by 3 panels: ERP,related water management program staff, and independent scientists. Re-operate Whiskeytown Dam to produce a glory 
Fiscal Year 2005

Geomorphic, fish, vegetation and birdmonitoring funded by CALFED

Monitoring

Fish and geomorphic monitoring$339,000 funded by CVPIA
FWS CVPIA Monitoring

• Adult Spring Chinook and steelhead • Habitat use by juvenile fish• Spawning area mapping• Fish stranding on floodplains• Procure and operate barrier weir• Chinook genetics • Sediment evaluation• Stream channel morphology
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Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Escap

1967-1991: 1,689

1992-2004

Number of Fish
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102030405060708090

100

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 

Spring-Run Chinook Counted in A

Fish Counted
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50

100150200250300

2001 2002 2003 2

Steelhead Redds Counted

Redds
Flows - in perpetuity, IFIM through 2009, EWP 

Gravel - in perpetuity, ~$500k until 2015, then 

Channel restoration - Implement 3B in summ

Assess need for 3C

Monitoring - $1.0 mil until 2010, then $500 k

What’s Left To Be Done