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SFBJV Active Projects, November 2019 Project Funding Needs Project Name County Description Acres Lead Rank 3-5 yr Alameda Creek Diversion Dam This project will reduce water diversions and construct a fish Alameda Creek Tier 1 Alameda NA $0 Fish Passage ladder and fish screens on the Alameda Diversion Dam. Alliance This project aims to restore a run of steelhead trout to Alameda Alameda Creek Fisheries Creek. Removal of barriers, improved flows, and other Alameda Creek Tier 1 Alameda NA $12,000,000 Restoration improvements will help support steelhead spawning and Alliance rearing and ultimately restore steelhead fisheries. This project will design and install a fish ladder on the northern Alameda County embankment of the flood control channel and Alameda County Alameda Creek Upper Rubber Water District, Tier 1 Alameda Water District's Rubber Dam No. 3. The fish ladder will help 0.1 $0 Dam No. 3 Fish Ladder Alameda Creek facilitate fish migration through the lower section of Alameda Alliance Creek. The East Bay Regional Park District is converting the former Naval Air Station for use as wildlife habitat and public East Bay Regional Alameda Point Restoration Tier 1 Alameda 660 $0 parkland. This project will extend access to restored shoreline Park District areas and will help support an endangered least tern colony. The project enhanced Albany Beach by arresting beach erosion and expanding dune and wetlands, and constructed wetland Albany Beach Restoration and and rain garden features to improve water quality. Current East Bay Regional Public Access Project - Tier 1 Alameda 3 $4,000,000 work includes completing a key segment of the SF Bay Trail, Park District McLaughlin Eastshore State Park expanding public shoreline access, and constructing visitor amenities. Aramburu Island Enhancement This project is restoring a native oyster reef along the shoreline, Project - Richardson Bay - Phase making improvements to the log groins, performing annual Tier 1 Marin NA $135,000 Audubon California 3: Revegetation, monitoring, monitoring, beach nourishment, and non-native invasive adaptive management species control. Alameda, The project will eradicate all populations of invasive Algerian Marin, San sea lavender and prevent future re-invasion to protect high tide BAEDN Invasive Sea Lavender California Invasive Tier 1 Mateo, refugia habitat for wildlife including the Ridgway's rail, black NA $800,000 Eradication & Restoration Plant Council Santa rail, and salt marsh harvest mouse. Treatment and removal Clara were initiated in 2016 and will continue until complete. Phase 3 includes enhancement, monitoring, and management Marin Audubon Bahia Restoration Phase 3 Tier 1 Marin of 400 acres of new marsh plain, seasonal wetland, and 35-40 440 $90,000 Society acres of transition zone and upland habitat. Page 1 SFBJV Active Projects, November 2019 Project Funding Needs Project Name County Description Acres Lead Rank 3-5 yr State Coastal This project restored salt marsh habitat and a more natural Conservancy, tidal hydrologic regime to the Bair Island complex and USFWS - San Bair Island Restoration Tier 1 San Mateo improved public access through a new bridge and walking trail. 100 $0 Francisco Bay Current activities include restoring native vegetation to ecotone National Wildlife slope habitat and extending the public access trail. Refuge Complex This project will restore approximately 17 acres of tidal wetlands, 4 acres of seasonal wetland, and 10 acres of Bay Point Regional Shoreline - Contra transition and upland grassland, habitats resilient to sea-level East Bay Regional Restoration and Public Access Tier 1 31 $3,700,000 Costa rise. It will also provide public access improvements to trails, Park District Project fishing access, drinking faucets, restroom upgrades and site security and safety features. The long-term shoreline-monitoring project provides resource Farallones Marine protection managers with a tool for determining the health of Beach Watch Program Tier 1 NA $2,160,000 Sanctuary the ocean ecosystem and serves as an important baseline Association during an environmental disaster. Volunteers have begun the removal of invasive vegetation and Friends of Sausal Beaconsfield Canyon Restoration Tier 1 Alameda aim to reduce fire hazard to the residential area, plant native 5 $350,000 Creek species and restore the canyon creek to a natural flow. This project will design and implement tidal restoration, by using dredged sediment to raise elevations prior to levee Bel Marin Keys V Wetlands State Coastal Tier 1 Marin breaching, and constructing an adjacent levee to protect 1,564 $125,000,000 Restoration Conservancy neighboring communities from flooding. Bay Trail segments will also be completed. This project will rehabilitate the Berkeley Brickyard area by Berkeley Brickyard - McLaughlin removing imported fill and soil contaminants, stabilize eroding East Bay Regional Tier 1 Alameda 31 $2,000,000 Eastshore State Park shoreline, establish new coastal scrub and prairie, and provide Park District shoreline access to restored areas. The project will remove invasive plants, preserve a threatened plant species, remove roads that bisect the wetland areas, and Big Break Regional Shoreline - Contra build a viewing platform. Project goals are to protect and East Bay Regional Wetland Restoration and Public Tier 1 87 $3,000,000 Costa enhance habitat for the threatened California Black Rail and Park District Access Giant Gartner Snake, restore wetlands and coastal prairie, and improve public access. Page 2 SFBJV Active Projects, November 2019 Project Funding Needs Project Name County Description Acres Lead Rank 3-5 yr The project will remove existing inorganic debris and invasive vegetation, plant native dune vegetation, protect eroding areas, Brooks Island Habitat Contra create ground-nesting bird habitat and control predators along East Bay Regional Tier 1 25 $500,000 Improvement Project Costa more than three miles of shoreline. A primary goal is to restore, Park District expand, protect, and develop viewing areas for the Caspian Tern nesting area. This project restores over 10 acres of historic bay fill to functioning tidal marsh, adds transitional areas and 21 acres of Candlestick Point - Yosemite San restored waterfront parklands to provide habitat for wildlife California State Tier 1 3 $1,300,000 Slough Wetland Restoration Francisco and other ecological benefits. Other activities include re- Parks Foundation vegetation, eliminating soil contaminants, and improving public access. Chabot Watershed Partnership: Filter strips and cattle exclusion from stream beds will be Solano Resource Habitat Restoration and BMPs implemented on two miles of stream, and ecosystem function Tier 1 Solano 360 $571,153 Conservation for Water Quality in an Impaired will be restored to over 360 acres through invasives removal District Urban Watershed and revegetation of over 50,000 native trees and plants. This project restores tidal marsh and floodplain habitat Contra Ducks Unlimited, Chelsea Wetlands Tier 1 functions for wildlife and improved flood protection at the 7 $225,000 Costa Inc. mouth of Pinole Creek. This project will restore 100 foot stream buffers on numerous tributaries to Laguna de Santa Rosa that cross through active City of Santa Rosa Farms Creek Laguna de Santa Tier 1 Sonoma agricultural areas. Project activities will include invasive 128 $1,500,000 Restoration Rosa Foundation species control, exclusionary fencing (where necessary), riparian and upland planting, and maintenance. These projects will increase off-stream water storage capacity, Coastal San Mateo County San Mateo Resource improve irrigation efficiencies and coordinate local Drought Relief Program (Phase Tier 1 San Mateo NA $4,300,000 Conservation management strategies for securing water during extreme II) District droughts. Volunteers from several Bay Area communities have Community-Based Restoration collaboratively removed thousands of pounds of garbage, and Stewardship - Eden Landing Tier 1 Alameda 10 $100,000 Save The Bay eradicated invasive weeds and planted natives to restore tidal Ecological Reserve salt marsh habitat at this site. Page 3 SFBJV Active Projects, November 2019 Project Funding Needs Project Name County Description Acres Lead Rank 3-5 yr This project restored tidal marsh habitat by removing fill and improved public access to the restored wetlands. Habitat Corte Madera Ecological Reserve Marin Audubon Tier 1 Marin enhancements are underway to reduce shoreline erosion and 10 $1,900,000 Expansion and Restoration Society provide native vegetation to enhance high tide refuge and shoreline protection. This project will restore the remaining 290 acres to tidal marsh through upland and/or beneficially reused dredged sediments Ducks Unlimited, Cullinan Ranch Tier 1 Solano to create wetland and associated habitats for wildlife like salt 290 $5,000,000 Inc., USFWS - SF marsh harvest mice. Project also includes monitoring and Bay NWR Complex adaptive management of entire 1,549-acre site. This project will extend the floodplain terrace for another 2,600 feet upstream, increasing the capacity of the upstream Denman Reach Phase 3 Tier 1 Sonoma segment to carry floodwater; reduce stream bank erosion and 14 $975,000 City of Petaluma sedimentation; remove invasive species and increase riparian habitat. Work is focused on removing invasive plant species, planting Dimond Park and Canyon Friends of Sausal Tier 1 Alameda 2,000-3,000 natives annually, controlling erosion from nearby 800 $10,000
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