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Alameda Creek Steelhead Restoration

Organization: Alameda Creek Alliance
2000 & 2001 Grant Recipient - Alameda County

Purpose

To support a community-based effort to restore native steelhead trout to Alameda Creek through the removal or modification of instream barriers in the lower watershed.

The Alameda Creek Alliance is a community watershed organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the natural ecosystems of the Alameda Creek Watershed. The overall goal of The Steelhead Trout Restoration Project was to ensure that responsible agencies coordinate and implement restoration action plans that will allow a self-sustaining run of native steelhead trout to repopulate Alameda Creek.

To accomplish this, the Alliance will worked to ensure that each of the responsible agencies remove or modify the instream barriers in the lower watershed. With the San Francisco Bay Fund grant, the Alliance encouraged specific restoration activities including:

1. construction of a fish ladder;
2. fish passage past two inflatable dams;
3. installation of fish screens;
4. replacement of culverts with bridges;
5. removal or modification of Niles and Sunol dams; and
6. fish passage past the PG&E pipeline crossing.

In addition, the Alliance engaged community residents in restoration efforts through:

1. publication of quarterly newsletter;
2. slideshow presentations to community groups;
3. fish rescues; and
4. creek clean-ups.

The Alliance worked to include surrounding communities in the decision-making process through:

1. organization of monthly community strategy meetings;
2. regular e-mail alerts to members;
3. press releases;
4. letter writing campaigns to management agencies; and
5. attendance at agency board meetings.

NRPI Database Entry:
http://www.ice.ucdavis.edu/nrpi/NRPIDescription.asp?ProjectPK=341

Documents

• Concept proposal (draft 4/25/03): 2003 Alameda Creek Restoration Project Narrative/Alameda Creek Fisheries Restoration Workshop. (6 pp.)
• Stonybrook Creek Fish Passage Assessment / Michael Love, April 2001. (72 pp.)
• Visit Alameda Creek pages on the Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration website for maps and reports.
• Publications by, and information about, the Alameda Creek Fisheries Restoration Workgroup are also hosted at CEMAR.

Volunteer Opportunities

The Alameda Creek Alliance is a volunteer organization. Their hands-on activities include creek cleanups, rescue and transport of stranded fish, and monitoring of fish populations and habitat. If you are interested in volunteering or learning more about this project's activities, please go to the Volunteer Page at www.alamedacreek.org

Primary Contact for the Project

Jeff Miller
Director,
Alameda Creek Alliance
Phone: (510) 499-9185
Email: AlamedaCreek@hotmail.com

Data Contact for the Project

Gordon Becker
Senior Fisheries Scientist
Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration
Phone: (510) 420-4565
Email: Becker@cemar.org