Tag: The Watershed Project

This project is retrofitting a chronically clogged fish ladder and sediment basin on lower Wildcat Creek in unincorporated North Richmond and the cities of Richmond and San Pablo, Contra Costa County, to restore passage for threatened Central California Coast steelhead. The broader effort also adds mini-parks, a community trail, K-12 education, citizen-science water quality monitoring, green-jobs workforce training, and creek cleanups benefiting this disadvantaged urban watershed.

This project advanced design and community engagement for the replacement of a failing fish ladder on lower Wildcat Creek in unincorporated North Richmond, Contra Costa County — the most downstream of three significant barriers to Central California Coast steelhead migration on the creek. Phase 2 supported an ecological engineering assessment of existing design drawings and extensive community outreach, including K-12 education programming and tribal consultation, with the ultimate goal of restoring access to 1.125 miles of spawning and rearing habitat and reconnecting the watershed to San Pablo Bay.

This project conducted an ecological engineering assessment of an existing, chronically clogged fish ladder on Wildcat Creek in the unincorporated North Richmond community of Contra Costa County, developed final design plans for a replacement fish passage facility to improve steelhead access to 1.1 miles of upstream habitat in a creek flowing from the Berkeley hills to San Pablo Bay, and engaged the surrounding disadvantaged community through K-12 educational programming, a children’s book, and community meetings. This is a multi-phase project, with the Forum supporting Phases 1,2 and 3. Location: Wildcat Creek at the Lower Wildcat Creek Flood Control Channel, in…