October 2017
Environmental Assessment/Initial Study Public Draft
Yuba County and USFWS (the CEQA and NEPA Leads, respectively) submitted the Public Draft EA/IS to the State Clearinghouse on Wednesday October 18th, beginning the 30 day public review period. Please submit any comments to [...]
April 2017
Project Timeline Update
Due to topographic changes in the Project vicinity resulting from 2017 floods, the Project Team determined that fall 2017 implementation was not feasible with the amount of change that has occurred in the Project area. [...]
Permitting Update
We received an ESA Section 7 Biological Opinion from NMFS on February 10, 2017 for the Project's effects on the threatened California Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon ESU, the threatened California Central Valley steelhead DPS, [...]
September 2016
The project gets some press!
In early September 2016, the Project Team hosted an informational project meeting for local residents and regional stakeholders at the Hallwood Women’s Club. About 50 people attended and provided valuable questions and feedback about the [...]
August 2016
Pre-implementation monitoring update
Initial results from monitoring experiments completed by Cramer Fish Sciences fisheries biologists are available! Key findings include: Non-native predatory fish (largemouth bass and sunfish) have been observed within the large backwater pool at the lower [...]
An update on project permitting…
Formal consultation has been initiated with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The cultural resources assessment is complete and Section 106 consultation has been initiated. [...]