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  • Pennington Creek Steelhead Barrier Removal Project

    This project removed a 1920s-era concrete diversion weir and ineffective fish ladder on Pennington Creek at the Rancho El Chorro Outdoor School in San Luis Obispo County, replacing approximately 160 linear feet of channel with engineered step pools. A new fish screen was installed at the diversion intake with a minimum bypass flow protective of steelhead critical habitat. The project opened 2.3 miles of perennial upstream habitat to federally threatened South-Central California Coast steelhead, with juveniles observed using the restored channel just six days after construction ended.