ACA updates

The Alameda Creek Alliance sends out e-mail alerts about conservation issues and updates about Alameda Creek restoration news, generally once or twice a month.

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2011 Updates

December 6 - Alameda Watershed HCP Meeting; Christmas Bird Count; Regional Salmon News

November 16 - Christmas Bird Count; Thank You ACA Members; Watch For Salmon; Dumbarton Rail Corridor Project; Regional Salmon News

October 5 - Alameda Creek in the News; Industrial Solar Development Coming to Alameda County?; Creeks Around the Bay; Regional Salmon News

August 26 - Alameda Creek Alliance in the News; Arroyo de la Laguna Stream Restoration Project at Verona Bridge; Regional Salmon News

August 3 - Comment on Niles Canyon Project; Niles Canyon Project Open House; Alameda Creek Alliance in the News; Regional Salmon News

July 11 - Film, Dinner and Silent Auction Fundraiser to Protect Niles Canyon; Recent Alameda Creek News; Other Caltrans News; Regional Salmon News

June 23 - Judge Halts Niles Canyon Road Widening Project; Help Us Celebrate

June 10 - Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order Halting Caltrans Highway Widening In Niles; Niles Canyon Update; Recent Media on Niles Canyon; Regional Salmon News

May 23 - Caltrans Niles Canyon Project Update; Upcoming Alameda Creek Alliance Events; Regional Salmon News

April 28 - Niles Canyon Update; Creek Alliance Picnic and BBQ in Sunol; Regional Salmon News

April 8 - Opposition to Niles Canyon Project Heats Up: Protest Tomorrow, Hearing Thursday

April 5 - Action Alert: Stop Caltrans from Destroying Trout Habitat in Alameda Creek

March 17 - CalTrans Niles Canyon Project Update; Park District Purchasing Land Along Pleasanton Ridge; Upcoming Events; Regional Salmon News

March 8 - Public Hearing Tomorrow on CalTrans Destruction Along Alameda Creek in Niles Canyon

March 1 - Stop CalTrans From Cutting Trees Along Alameda Creek; Alameda Creek in the News; Shadow Cliffs Land Use Plan; Regional Salmon News

February 2 - Calaveras Dam Project Victory; Eastern Alameda County Bird-Count Results; ACRCD Streambank Stabilization Project in Arroyo de la Laguna; Regional Salmon News

January 25 - Calaveras Dam Project Revised, Future Operations Could Help Restore Alameda Creek

January 6 - Interesting Wildlife Sightings in the Watershed; Alameda Creek in the News; Regional Salmon News

2010 Updates

November 15 - Eastern Alameda County Christmas Bird Count; Alameda Creek in the News; Alameda Creek on Facebook; Annual Dinner Thanks; Your Membership Keeps Us Going; Statewide Salmon News

September 10 - Alameda Creek Alliance Membership Dinner; Public Meetings on Niles Canyon Road Widening; Alameda Creek in the News; Draft East Alameda County Conservation Strategy Released; Volunteer for Fish Surveys with SFPUC; Alameda Creek Fishing Closure Addendum; Construction in the Sunol Valley; Upcoming Events in September; Statewide Salmon News

August 18 - September is SALMON MONTH in the Bay Area!

August 18 - Alameda Creek Alliance Membership Dinner October 22

August 4 - Niles Canyon Highway Widening; Marin Coho Salmon Action Alert; Salmon Month at Aquarium of the Bay; Sunol Water Temple Centennial Celebration; Coastal Cleanup Day; Statewide Salmon News

July 21 -Sunol Valley Restoration Plan Initiated; Stonybrook Creek Fish Passage Strategy; Alameda Creek Historical Ecology Study; Cal Trans Niles Canyon Project; Searsville Dam Alert - Tell Stanford to Restore Steelhead; Stop Cargill's Development; Upcoming Events; Statewide Salmon News

June 30 - Alameda Creek Watershed News; Upcoming Events; Statewide Salmon News

May 24 - Dam Removal Celebration June 23 in Fremont; Help Defeat the Water Bond; Yellow-billed Magpie Surveys; Close to Home Talk on Beavers; Fremont Bans Polystyrene; Pesticides Restricted in Bay Area Endangered Species Habitats; Statewide Salmon News

April 16 - Upcoming Events; Winter Steelhead Report; Alameda Creek Alliance in the News; Statewide Salmon News

March 31 - Alameda Creek Alliance in the News; Upcoming Events; Statewide Salmon News

February 24 - Alameda Creek in the News; Steelhead Migration Season is Here - Watch for Fish; Statewide Salmon News

January 6 - Calaveras Dam Project Comments; Coho Salmon Creek Walk January 16 in Marin; First Christmas Bird Count a Huge Success; Alameda Creek in the News; Statewide Salmon News

2009 Updates

December 17 - Calaveras Dam; New Alameda Creek Fishing Regulations; Christmas Bird Count; West Marin Creek Walk for Coho Salmon January 16; Staples Ranch Development; Winter Fish Rescue in Alameda Creek

December 2 - Sunol Hearing on Calaveras Dam December 14; Salmon Viewing Map for Central California; Sign Up For Fish Rescue This Winter; Organizations We Like; Statewide Salmon News

November 14 - Help Us Count Birds in the Alameda Creek Watershed December 18

November 9 - Public Wins Round Two in Calaveras Dam Project Review; Support the Alameda Creek Alliance; Management of Your Public Land in the Watershed; Other Watershed News; Statewide Salmon News

November 2 - Calaveras Dam action alert

September 30 - Lower Rubber Dam Removed and Fish Ladder Installed; Christmas Bird Count - December 18; Statewide Salmon News

August 14 - Help Us Secure Stream Flows for Alameda Creek Steelhead Trout; Alameda Watershed Christmas Bird Count; Million Boat Float

August 5 - Dam Removal and Fish Screen Projects in Lower Alameda Creek Underway; Sunol Valley Water Treatment Plant Expansion; Anson Moran Appointed to SFPUC Commission; Pleasanton Ridge and Shadow Cliffs Land Use Plans Being Developed; Statewide Salmon News

June 3 - Creek Alliance Announces Apperson Quarry Conservation Plan; Irvington Tunnel Project Environmental Review Begins; New Power Lines Proposed Through Livermore and Sunol; Statewide Salmon News; Paddle to the Sea Grand Finale; Salmon Aid Festival; Car-Free Exploration of the Bay Area

May 21 - Historic Conservation Agreement Signed for Apperson and Sunol Quarries

March 25 - Volunteer for SFPUC Fish Surveys in Alameda Creek; SalmonAid Festival June 20-21; Rivers of a Lost Coast Screening April 21 and 22 in Berkeley

March 24 - BART Weir Fish Ladder Progress; Creek Alliance Joins Potential Lawsuit Over Staples Ranch Development; Historic Opportunity to Restore Coastal Wetlands at Sharp Park in Pacifica; Beyond Searsville Dam; Statewide Salmon and River News; Upcoming Events

February 11 - Alameda Creek Restoration Overview; San Francisco Endangered Species Take Permit for Alameda Watershed; Alameda Creek Fish Barrier Removal Scorecard; Alameda Creek Predatory Fish Survey; Report Identifying Bay Area Wildlands Needing Protection; Schwarzenegger, Feinstein And Nature Conservancy Capture Cold, Dead Fish Award; Sportsman's Panel Urges Immediate Action for State Fisheries; Budget Woes Torpedo Restoration Projects; Republicans Hijack Budget to Gut CA Environmental Laws

January 22 - San Francisco Alameda Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan; Rain is Finally Here - Watch for Fish; Volunteer for SFPUC Fish Surveys in Alameda Creek; Alameda Creek Sediment Forum; Good News on Bonnie and Clyde's Kids; Upcoming Events in the Watershed; Leaping Steelhead Conservation Awards For 2008?

2008 Updates

December 29 - Alameda Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan Meeting January 13; Media Coverage - SFPUC Water System Projects and South Bay Wetlands Restoration; The Truth About California Trout Stocking Restrictions; California Steelhead Report; Upcoming Events, Books and Films

December 3 - SFPUC Approves $4.5 Billion Hetch Hetchy Upgrade and Programmatic EIR for Water System Projects in Alameda Creek; December 13 Salmon Walk in Lagunitas Creek; Algae and Urban Runoff Implicated in October Alameda Creek Fish Kill; Sweeping Public Trust Lawsuit Filed for Delta Fish; SOS: California's Native Fish Crisis; Pesticides Determined Harmful for Salmon; Giant Salmon Found in Sacramento River Tributary

October 28 - Membership Renewal; Final EIR for San Francisco Water System Improvement Program; Hearing Thursday on EIR - Speak Up for Alameda Creek; Tuolumne River Also Threatened by SFPUC; Alameda Creek Fish Kill; Eleventh-hour Bush Policy Tries to Gut Endangered Species Act; Santa Clara County Creeks Conference; Help Prevent the Spread of Invasive Mud Snails

September 19 - New ACA Address; Coastal and Creek Clean Up Day This Saturday; Bonnie and Clyde Update; Endangered Species Act Under Assault Again; Snake River Salmon; Water Politics Documentary: FLOW

May 30 - SalmonAid Festival This Weekend In Oakland; Fish Screens Dedicated

May 8 - Channel 5 News Story on Alameda Creek Steelhead

May 5 - Alameda Creek in the News; Statewide Salmon News

May 1 - New Mailing Address; New Staff: Letters Needed on Calaveras Dam; East Bay Parks Bond Measure; 3 Easy Steps to Restore California Rivers

April 23 - Calaveras Dam Permit Must Consider Steelhead Trout; SFPUC Planning Environmental Improvement Projects; Potential Volunteer Opportunities for Fisheries Surveys; SalmonAid Festival May 31 and June 1; East Alameda County Conservation Strategy; Camp Parks Development in Dublin; Statewide Fish News

March 31 - Alameda Creek in the News; Friends of Springtown Preserve in Livermore; Bonnie and Clyde; Carpe Diem; Statewide Salmon News; Alameda Creek Watershed Sediment Forum April 23; Earth Day Events

March 12 - First Steelhead Spawning in Watershed Since 1960s?; Recent Media on Alameda Creek; Funding For BART Weir Fish Ladder; Volunteers Needed for Alameda Creek Table at Earth Day Events and Salmon Festival; Native-Spanish Contact Commemorative Events

January 24 - Fish Rescue Permits; Leaping Steelhead Award; Camp Parks Development Alert; Eastern Alameda County Conservation Plan; GGNRA Endangered Species Big Year; Landlocked Steelhead Fish Trapping Data for 2004; 2008 Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour

2007 Updates

December 13 - New Zealand Mud Snail Alert; Alameda Creek in the News; Membership Drive; Fish Season; Alameda Creek Native Rainbow Trout; SF Bay Oil Spill Resources

October 29 - S.F. Water System Improvement Plan Could Derail Alameda Creek Steelhead Restoration; Pleasanton Weekly Article on Decade of Alameda Creek Restoration; New Alameda Creek Alliance T-shirt Coming Soon; Living With Wildlife Talk on Salmon November 5; Contra Costa Creek Symposium November 15; Santa Clara Creeks Conference November 17; Two-Day Salmon Aid 2008 Festival in Oakland Announced

September 27 - Newspaper Stories on Alameda Creek Restoration; Ranch Bought for Parkland Near Niles Canyon; Train Routes Mean Potential Environmental Disaster in Niles Canyon

September 20 - Five Alameda Creek Fish Restoration Projects Move Forward

September 17 - Hearing on SFPUC Water Program

September 5 - Article on Ten Years of Alameda Creek Restoration; Stream Flow Study Plan Finalized; Scoping Comments on SF Water Supply Projects; Bay Area Salt Marsh Restoration; Santa Clara County Creeks & Watershed Conference November 17

August 29 - Thank You; Draft Environmental Review Documents Released for San Francisco Water Supply Projects; Help the Sierra Club turn people out for the public meetings on the San Francisco Water Supply Projects; State of the Estuary Conference October 16-18; Fly Fishers Anniversary Party November 10

August 8 - Major SFPUC Water Supply Projects Launched; SFPUC Accused of Water Grab; 40-Foot Tall Marmot Dam Removed in Oregon!

July 26 - Tickets on Sale for ACA 10th Anniversary Event in August; Alameda Creek T-Shirt Artwork Contest; Draft Environmental Review Documents Released for San Francisco Water Supply Projects; Progress on ACWD Fish Passage Projects; Arroyo Mocho Fish Barrier to be Removed; Planning for Zone 7 Stream Restoration Projects; Report on Amphibians of the East Bay Parks

June 6 - Apperson Quarry Update; Fish Screen Construction Begins in Lower Alameda Creek; Bay Area Stream Fishes Report Published; Group Forms to Remove Searsville Dam from San Francisquito Creek; Lawsuit for Pesticide Impacts to Bay Area Endangered Species; Volunteer for the Golden Gate Endangered-Species Project

April 16 - Volunteers needed for Alameda Creek event; Artist needed for new t-shirt design

April 11 - Upcoming events of interest this Spring

April 2 - Alameda Creek Alliance 10th Anniversary August 24

March 30 - Native/Spanish Contact Commemorative Event; Alameda County Watershed Forum Meeting; Help Monitor Salmon Traps in Lagunitas Creek in Marin; Stop Schwarzenegger's New Dams; Save the Columbia and Snake River Salmon; Klamath River Salmon; Bush Administration Unleashes Staggering Attack on Endangered Species Act

March 13 - Alameda Creek Steelhead Report; Implementation of Zone 7 Stream Management Plan; Environmental Review Underway for South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project; Environmental Review Schedule for SFPUC Water System Projects; March 17 and April 14: Volunteer for Eden Landing Wetland Restoration; April 21: Fremont Earth Day; April 29: Fourth Annual Bay-Friendly Garden Tour

February 27 - Steelhead Watch in Lower Alameda Creek; Volunteer for SFPUC Fish Surveys in Alameda Creek

February 22 - Storm Brings Flows Suitable for Steelhead Migration; Welcome New Members; Upcoming Events; ACWD Fish Screen Meeting - Fremont; Tule Elk Talk - Oakland; FOSC 10th Anniversary Celebration - Oakland; National River Cleanup Week; Water for Fish Campaign to Restore San Francisco Bay Delta and Klamath River; Livermore Airport Expansion Alert; Fremont, Newark & Union City Residents - Endorse the Citizens' Climate Policy

January 29 - ACA Newsletters Posted; East Bay Steelhead Restoration Talk; Alameda County Watershed Forum; Save The Bay/Alameda Creek Alliance Events; East Bay Environmental Garden Tours; Volunteers Needed for 2007 Festivals; Report Trashed Creeks; Changing the Debate on Global Warming; Elwha Dam Removal Video

January 2 - Alameda Creek Fish Rescue This Year; Volunteers Needed for Steelhead Monitoring This Winter; Support the Alameda Creek Alliance; Alameda County Wants Quick Progress on Fixing BART Weir; Fremont Showing of An Inconvenient Truth January 6; 25th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference March 7-10; Fremont Earth Day April 21, 2007; Celebrate Our Victories; Free Endangered Species Cell Phone Ringtones; State Protection for California Tiger Salamander; Citizens Groups Sue over Fish Passage on the Yuba River; Dam is Gone, Salmon are Back in Puget Sound Creek; Local Electronic Waste Disposal Opportunities

2006 Updates

December 27 - Alameda Creek Restoration Article in Estuary

December 21 - Tell Alameda County It's Time to Fix the BART Weir

December 14 - Chinook Salmon in Lower Alameda Creek; 2007 Fish Rescue in Alameda Creek; Alameda Creek in the News; Other West Coast Salmon News; Help Support the Alameda Creek Alliance When You Search the Internet

December 1 - Alameda Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan Meeting Monday, December 4; Alameda County Watershed Forum Meeting Moved to February 6; Salmon Spawning Tours in Marin

November 16 - King Salmon Arrive in Alameda Creek; Alameda Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan Meeting December 4; Alameda County Watershed Forum December 5; Submit Information on Stream Flow Conditions; Help Save Klamath River Salmon; Salmon Hazard Pesticide Warnings; Report Warns of Global Collapse of Fishing

November 2 - Last Outreach Day for Sinbad Creek This Saturday; Vote on Tuesday!; Friends of Springtown Preserve Forming; Urban Creeks Council Looking for Executive Director

October 23 - Thank You Members!; Stonybrook Creek Culvert Will be Replaced With Bridge; Alameda Creek Interview to Air on Channel 29; YES on Measure K Campaign Contribution Request; Sinbad Creek Outreach; San Joaquin River Salmon Restoration; Hatchery vs. Wild Salmon

October 10 - Stonybrook Creek Cleanup and Fish Surveys; Sinbad Creek Outreach; Urban Creek Survey for Creekside Property Owners and Government Agencies; Farmed Salmon Killing Off Wild Cousins; Pombo-McNerny Congressional Race

October 6 - Annual Membership Appeal

September 22 - Photos and Media Coverage of Dam Removals; Talk on the Endangered Species Act; Bay Area Watershed Coordination Conversation

September 20 - Sunol Dam Removal Celebration Reminder; Measure K Fundraiser; Stonybrook and Sinbad Creeks Outreach; Stonybrook Creek Cleanup; Stonybrook Creek Fish Surveys; Sinbad Creek Outreach

September 10 - Arroyo de la Laguna Streambank Restoration Under Way

September 6 - Celebrate the Niles & Sunol Dam Removals and Restoration of Alameda Creek

September 5 - Volunteer for September Events; Celebrate the Removal of Sunol and Niles Dams; Arroyo de la Laguna Restoration Project

August 14 - Volunteers Needed; Become an Alameda Creek StreamKeeper; Upcoming Salmon & Steelhead Event

July 11 - Alameda Creek Article in The Osprey; SFPUC Adopts Stewardship Policy; Sunol Victory - Compost Site Gets Dumped; Vargas Plateau Land Use Plan; Organic Water-Friendly Gardens Wanted

June 21 - New Alameda Creek Alliance Staff

March 29 - Meeting on Sunol Compost Dump; Alameda County Watershed Forum Meeting; Winter 2005-2006 Alameda Creek Steelhead Report; Livermore-Pleasanton Stream Management Plan; Pleasanton Creek Project Gets OK; Sunol and Niles Dam Removals; Avoid Polluting the Bay - Keep it Clean Web Site

March 27 - ACA Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator Position

March 14 - Alameda Creek Steelhead Report; Stream Management Plan for Livermore-Pleasanton Creeks

March 10 - Alameda Creek Alliance Newsletter - Winter 2005/2006; Alameda Creek Fish Rescue Report; Steelhead Media Coverage; Sunol Compost Facility Meetings; Report on Pesticide Impacts to Bay Area Endangered Species; Volunteers Needed for Spring Festivals

March 1 - Steelhead Back in Lower Alameda Creek; Gather Signatures for Coyote Hills Natural Area Initiative; Public Hearing on Sunol Compost Facility; ACA Volunteers Needed; Alameda County Watershed Forum

February 25 - Last Storm of the Season for Steelhead?; Sunol Compost Dump Approved; ACA Membership Drive; Help Protect Local Biodiversity; Kottinger Creek Restoration

February 4 - Benefit Film Showing; Alameda County Watershed Forum; Pilarcitos Creek Forum; Kottinger Creek Alert; Stop the South Delta Improvement Project

January 23 - Polar Bear and Global Warming Slideshow; Benefit Film Showing in Fremont; Articles on Walnut Creek Salmon Restoration; ACA Volunteers Needed to Table at Spring Festival; International Day of Action Against Dams

January 12 - Don't Let the State and Water Agencies Destroy the Delta; New Hydropower Rule Threatens River Protection; Alameda County Watershed Forum Meeting February 7; DWR and DFG Directors to Host Fish Passage Document Signing

January 6 - Year End Storms Bring Fish, Near Flood Flows to Alameda Creek; Bay Area Media Articles Covering the Recent Resident Trout Listing Decision; Cold, Dead Fish Award to SFPUC

2005 Updates

December 23 - Christmas Steelhead Ruling Scrooges Alameda Creek Trout; Anti-Endangered Species Bill in Senate; What to Do if You Spot Steelhead in Lower Alameda Creek

December 12 - Sunol Compost Facility Meeting

December 2 - Salmon Spawning Season; Calaveras Dam Project; New Kottinger Creek Web Site; Alameda County Watershed Forum Meeting

November 14 - Attend the Public Scoping Meetings on the Calaveras Dam Replacement Project

November 7 - Calaveras Dam Replacement Project scoping comments and hearings

October 27 - Sign up for Alameda Creek Fish Rescue this Winter; Environmental review for two major SFPUC projects in the Alameda Creek watershed

October 20 - CSPA Action Alert: Valley Ag Moves to Destroy the Central Valley Project Improvement Act

October 12 - San Francisco water supply projects hearing results; Thank you new and renewing members; Fundraising volunteers needed

October 5 - Public scoping meeting for the San Francisco water supply projects

September 19 - Legislation Introduced to Gut Endangered Species Act

September 16 - Pombo Extinction Bill in Congress

September 15 - Kickoff meeting of the Alameda County Watershed Forum; Help restore San Lorenzo Creek in Hayward; State of the Estuary Conference; Public Scoping meeting for SF Water Supply projects; Steelhead/rainbow trout listing and critical habitat for Alameda Creek

August 24 - New ACA contact phone number; Scoping Meetings for SFPUC Water System Improvement Program; "Journey of the Salmon" - salmon awareness program for Alameda County schools; North Livermore development

July 29 - Proposed SFPUC Interim Operations Plan

July 27 - Help stop the attack on the Endangered Species Act

March 30 - Calaveras Dam enlargement abandoned, End of fish rescue season, Apperson Quarry strategy meeting and Maguire Peaks hike in May, Zone 7 meeting on Stream Management Master Plan, San Lorenzo Creek fish runs

February 17 - Watch for fish, Patterson Ranch development

February 11 - Map of Alameda Creek watershed available

January 18 - Steelhead critical habitat, Lead-free ammunition

2004 Updates

December 10 - Bush assault on salmon protections

November 15 - Critical habitat for steelhead and salmon threatened again, Help protect the Endangered Species Act

November 10 - Large salmon documented, Agreement on fish rescue this winter, EPA appointment

October 28 - Permit requirements for fish rescue, Update on fish in Alameda Creek

October 27 - Steelhead trout spotted

October 21 - Check Alameda Creek for fish

October 18 - Sunol compost facility, California tiger salamander, Altamont Pass wind farm bird kills

September 15 - Comment period for salmon and steelhead listings

September 9 - Coastal and creek cleanup day, Proposed expansion of off-road vehicle park in Corral Hollow

June 3 - Increased federal protection proposed for Alameda Creek steelhead trout, Sinbad Creek preliminary steelhead habitat assessment

May 18 - Zone 7 Water Agency Stream Management Master Plan

May 14 - Walpert Ridge Blue Rock development

May 5 - SF Public Utilities Commission public meeting on the Alameda Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan

February 18 - SFPUC Habitat Conservation Plan, Apperson Quarry hike

February 3 - Apperson Quarry strategy meeting

2003 Updates

December 9 - Welch Creek fish habitat survey and barrier assessment, Maguire Peaks hike to overlook the proposed Apperson Quarry, Photos of new fish ladders on Arroyo Mocho and Arroyo las Positas

November 20 - Save the owls, Save the bay, Save the salmon

November 14 - Fish spawning season, Congratulations to Zone 7 Water Agency!, Fish notes from around the state

October 21 - New ACA web site!

October 9 - Upcoming meetings regarding the Alameda Creek watershed

October 6 - Comments on Sunol-Ohlone Plan

September 24 - Next ACA meeting - your chance to volunteer

September 17 - 90 Years of Neglect; Protect the tiger salamander

September 15 - Disappointing EBRPD Sunol/Ohlone Plan

August 13 - Stop the Apperson Ridge Quarry

August 8 - A few recent newspaper articles of interest

August 6 - Groups try to stop park grazing

July 16 - Help restore Sunol and Ohlone Parks, Upcoming creek conferences