Fish Passage Projects

The main impediments to restoring steelhead trout and salmon runs in Alameda Creek are fish passage barriers that prevent adult fish from moving upstream to suitable spawning and rearing habitat in the upper watershed. Some of these barriers could also pose problems for juvenile fish attempting to complete their life cycle by moving from fresh water rearing habitat downstream to the Bay.

Largely as a result of community organizing and political pressure by the ACA, there are now 15 local, state, and federal agencies working on fish passage projects within the Alameda Creek watershed. The Alameda Creek Fisheries Restoration Workgroup is a stakeholders group formed in 1999 to address fisheries restoration issues.

Map of Fish Passage Barriers in Alameda Creek Watershed

Dam Photos

Restoration Projects by Stream Reach:

Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel (Fish Ladders at ACWD Rubber Dams and BART Weir; Fish Screens at ACWD Diversions)

Niles Canyon (Niles and Sunol Dam Removals; USGS Gaging Station)

Stonybrook Creek (Caltrans Culvert; ACFCD Culvert Modifications; Small Scale Stonybrook Creek Restoration Projects)

Sunol Valley (Sinbad Creek; PG&E Crossing; Sunol Valley Restoration; Welch Creek)

Sunol Wilderness (EBRPD Dam Removals)

SFPUC watershed lands (Steelhead Trout Migration Studies)

Arroyo Mocho (Zone 7 Fish Passage Projects; Lawrence Livermore Lab Stream Crossing)

Arroyo de la Laguna (Zone 7, Alameda County RCD and SFPUC streambank erosion control project)

Flow Studies for Steelhead Trout (Cooperative Study of Stream Flows Needed for Alameda Creek Steelhead Trout Restoration)

Fish Ladder to the Stars by Ray Troll - visit www.trollart.com

The Alameda Creek Fisheries Restoration Workgroup is a a multi-agency stakeholder group formed in 1999 to develop and implement a strategy to restore steelhead trout to Alameda Creek. The Work Group is composed of numerous community and citizens’ groups, local water management and flood control agencies, state and federal resource agencies, and others.

• Overview
• Workgroup Participants
  
• Next Meeting
• Meeting Notes