Navarro Plan for Streamflow Enhancement & Optimization
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Project Overview
Basics
Navarro Plan for Streamflow Enhancement & Optimization
Completed
This planning project, a partnership with MCRCD, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Trout Unlimited (TU), developed strategies and a scientific basis for improving flows in the lower Navarro River watershed. Through a gauging network, comprehensive review of planning documents, scientific anaylsis and GIS, projects were vetted by a robust technical advisory group (TAG). The partnership identified projects utilizing the following strategies:
Storage and Forbearance; Community Water Management (CWM); Groundwater Infiltration, and Large Wood Augmentation. The gauging network was expanded and projects were developed under each strategy. A Phase 2 proposal was submitted to WCB and funded in 2018.
Storage and Forbearance; Community Water Management (CWM); Groundwater Infiltration, and Large Wood Augmentation. The gauging network was expanded and projects were developed under each strategy. A Phase 2 proposal was submitted to WCB and funded in 2018.
2016
2018
2018
11/8/2022
Project Attributes
Census Tract Income
None
Direct Benefits to Disadvantaged Communities (DACs)
None
EnviroScreen
None
Free and Reduced Lunch
None
Indirect Benefits to Disadvantaged Communities (DACs)
None
Tribal Engagement (True/False)
None
Tribal Engagement
None
Location
Priority sub-watersheds included Indian Creek, Mill Creek, North Fork Navarro, and Flynn Creek
Project sub-watersheds include Mill Creek, Indian Creek, NF Navarro, and Flynn Creek
Organizations
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Contacts
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Planning Document | Plan Type: Other | 1 |
Reported Performance Measures
No annual Performance Measure accomplishments entered for this Project.
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Total | |
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| EQIP (NRCS) | $3,000.00 | $3,000.00 | $3,000.00 | $9,000.00 |
| Fee for Service (TNC) | $20,000.00 | $40,000.00 | $20,000.00 | $80,000.00 |
| Fee for Service (TU) | $10,000.00 | $14,000.00 | $10,000.00 | $34,000.00 |
| Prop 1 (WCB) | $85,000.00 | $174,000.00 | $101,055.00 | $360,055.00 |
| Grand Total | $118,000.00 | $231,000.00 | $134,055.00 | $483,055.00 |
| Note: | None provided |
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Project Themes
Project Themes
Drought and loss of habitat for salmonids, loss of water security for communities in rural, fire-prone areas in southern Mendocino County.
Workshops, tours, public meetings, resources page on website, newsletters, and press releases.
Project targeted CCC Coho Salmon and NCC steelhead-trout habitat in the Navarro River watershed
Project included development of a groundwater infiltration study and project development
The watershed is on the 303-d list as an impaired watershed for temperature and sediment. Cold-water fish are the most sensitive species of concern.
Project supports water security for farms and flow enhancement for fish and wildlife
Project Details
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Notes
| 08/13/2020 4:19 PM | Patty Madigan | This was the first phase of a comprehensive streamflow enhancement effort in the Navarro River watershed. More than 1million dollars in project funds have been secured since 2016, through a second phase of funding through WCB's SFEP. Currently, MCRCD and partners are developing implementation projects and coordinating efforts for working in the Outlet creek watershed in the Eel River drainage. Community Water Management, storage, infiltration , large wood, and flow releases are the strategies--as well as coordinated diversion we are piloting in Phase II. |
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