Scott River Tailings Restoration, Long Pond Implementation, Phase 1
Project Overview
Basics
Scott River Tailings Restoration, Long Pond Implementation, Phase 1
- Address Climate Change and Extreme Event Effects, Impacts and Vulnerabilities
- Conserve, Enhance and Restore Watersheds and Ecosystems that Support Biological Diversity
- Ensure that Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Communities Benefit from Initiatives
- Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Collaboration with Tribes
- Protect and Enhance Watersheds and Ecosystems that Provide Water Quality and Supply Benefits
- Respect Local Autonomy and Local Knowledge in NCRP Planning and Implementation
NCRP Urban and Multibenefit Drought Relief Grant
Implementation
The Project will construct and enhance habitat features to offer drought and climate change refugia for aquatic species in the Scott Watershed and to create resilience and invigorate positive ecological responses towards the recovery of listed anadromous salmonid species. The Project will create 1 acre of complex, cold water refugia habitat for Coho Salmon with a science-based engineered design.
2021
2022
9/15/2023
Project Attributes
General Information
Project Description Narrative (1,000 character limit)
The Phase 1 of this Project, proposed to be implemented with the requested funding, will create 1 acre of cold water refugia habitat. Future phases will connect to an additional acre of existing, but currently disconnected, cold water pond habitat. The Long Pond project site is located within the existing and former floodplains of the Scott River and Sugar Creek, near the Sugar Creek confluence approximately 2.5
miles north (downstream) of the town of Callahan in Siskiyou County, California. The project area encompasses dredged mine tailings and associated ponds, as well as an approximately 800-foot ft.-long reach of the Sugar Creek channel immediately downstream of State Route 3.
Solutions
Capacity - Year-round Local Capacity, Climate Action - Adaptation, Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration - Water
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
None
Project Size (Acres)
1
acres
Location
Organizations
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| Local and/or Political Support | Stillwater Sciences, UC Davis, Scott River Valley GSA |
Contacts
Project Benefit Performance Measures
Expected Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | Activity focus: Environmental improvement | 1 count |
| Habitat Restoration - Acres restored | Habitat type: Instream Project type: Floodplain hydrogeomorphic enhancement | 1 acres |
| Habitat Restoration - Acres restored | Habitat type: Riparian Project type: Revegetation | 1 acres |
| Honoring & incorporating Tribal priorities - # of projects | 1 count | |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | 3.5 | |
| Special status species protection | Protection status: Federal endangered/ threatened fish | 1 count |
| Special status species protection - # of projects | 1 count |
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Activity focus | 2022 | Units |
| Environmental improvement | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Habitat Restoration - Acres restored | |||
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| Habitat type | Project type | 2022 | Units |
| Instream | Floodplain hydrogeomorphic enhancement | 0 | acres |
| Riparian | Revegetation | 0 | acres |
| Total | 0 | acres | |
| Honoring & incorporating Tribal priorities - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Units | |
| 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | ||
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| 2022 | Units | |
| 0 | number | |
| Total | 0 | number |
| Special status species protection | ||
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| Protection status | 2022 | Units |
| Federal endangered/ threatened fish | 1 | count |
| Special status species protection - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Units | |
| 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | count |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
No Expenditures have been reported for this Project.
| Note: | No expenditures yet reported. |
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Project Types
Project Types
This project provides high quality water and refugia habitat for listed species which is extremely limited under drought conditions in the Scott River Valley. The water resource being utilized offers multiple benefits in that it is uniquely cool and clean water from a tailings pile that will be remediated.
This project buffers salmonid populations from drought associated with climate change by providing cool, high quality instream water. This project will allow juvenile Coho (and other aquatic species) to move into refugia habitat when environmental cues stimulate them to do so, rather than awaiting relocation efforts which are often only undertaken after the habitat, and the fish that are in them, are already in extremis.
The planted vegetation will provide shade and enhance primary productivity. These improvements will enhance habitat resiliency to climate change.
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