Porter Creek Streamflow Enhancement Project
Project Overview
Basics
Porter Creek Streamflow Enhancement Project
Implementation
This project provides a direct and measurable enhancement to flow in Porter Creek – a tributary that is critical to the survival of the endangered Central California Coast coho salmon.
The system, which releases water from a vineyard irrigation reservoir, will sustain in-stream pool habitat for listed coho salmon in Porter Creek in the dry season and provide higher flow releases to allow coho smolt out-migration in the spring. Streamflow, water quality, and fish monitoring will be conducted for three years to further understand how the water releases affect the fish and inform recommendations for the long-term operation and management of the water release system.
The system, which releases water from a vineyard irrigation reservoir, will sustain in-stream pool habitat for listed coho salmon in Porter Creek in the dry season and provide higher flow releases to allow coho smolt out-migration in the spring. Streamflow, water quality, and fish monitoring will be conducted for three years to further understand how the water releases affect the fish and inform recommendations for the long-term operation and management of the water release system.
2015
2017
2020
2/2/2021
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
Organizations
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| Primary RCD | |
| Stakeholders | |
| State Assembly Voting District | |
| State Senate Voting District |
Contacts
Katie Robbins - Sonoma Resource Conservation District (Sonoma RCD) (krobbins@sonomarcd.org)
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Habitat Restoration/Creation | Action Taken: Enhanced Habitat Type: Riparian | Not Provided |
| Special Status Fish Species Habitat | Action Performed: Enhanced Focal Species: coho salmon - central California coast ESU Habitat Type: Migration Listing Status: Federally Endangered/State Endangered | Not Provided |
Reported Performance Measures
| Habitat Restoration/Creation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action Taken | Habitat Type | Total | 2018 | 2017 | Units |
| Enhanced | Riparian | 0 | N/A | 0 | acres |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | acres | |
| Special Status Fish Species Habitat | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action Performed | Focal Species | Habitat Type | Listing Status | Total | 2018 | 2017 | Units |
| Enhanced | coho salmon - central California coast ESU | Migration | Federally Endangered/State Endangered | 0 | 0 | 0 | lf |
| Enhanced | coho salmon - central California coast ESU | Rearing | Federally Endangered/State Endangered | 0 | 0 | 0 | lf |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | lf | |||
| No accomplishments to report for: | |
| Year(s): | 2019 |
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| Explanation: | Water was released for smolt out-migration and instream summer rearing habitat in 2017. Water was again released for smolt out-migration in spring 2018 and then released in the summer to supplement baseflow for rearing habitat. Water was not released in spring 2019 due to naturally high flows resulting from increased late-winter/early-spring storm events. Instream summer rearing habitat is expected to be supplemented by flow releases in late-summer 2019. |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landowner Cost Share (Private) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $39,043.00 | $39,043.00 | $39,043.00 | $0.00 | $117,129.00 |
| Prop 1 (WCB) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $340,000.00 | $37,000.00 | $40,000.00 | $0.00 | $417,000.00 |
| Grand Total | $0.00 | $0.00 | $379,043.00 | $76,043.00 | $79,043.00 | $0.00 | $534,129.00 |
| Note: | None provided |
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Project Themes
Project Themes
Water is released from an agricultural reservoir to supplement summer baseflow for endangered coho salmon. The system can also be used to hydraulically connect Porter Creek to the Russian River in the spring to allow out-migration of smolts.
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