Cedar Creek Barrier Removal

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Protect The Best 
Reconnect Habitat 
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Restore Estuaries 
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Cedar Creek Barrier Removal

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Protect The Best Reconnect Habitat Integrate Fish & Working Lands Steward Source Water Areas Restore Estuaries

Project Goal:

Restore migratory access to approximately 9 miles of salmon and steelhead habitat. Protect important cold water refugia in the South Fork Eel River.

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Completed:
2022

Region:

North Coast

Project Funders

CA Department of Fish and Wildlife

WCB

Fish Affected:

Steelhead

Chinook Salmon

Threats:

Major Dams

Project Description

Nine miles of wild fish habitat on Cedar Creek, a South Fork Eel River tributary, blocked for more than 60 years, is now accessible once again thanks to a fish passage restoration project recently completed by California Trout, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and partners. Cedar Creek provides a significant portion of the cold water that flows into the Eel River’s South Fork in the summer. With the removal of an 8-foot-high dam on the creek, migratory Chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead and Pacific lamprey will have improved access to the creek during all their life stages.

The Cedar Creek dam, located approximately 700 feet upstream from the confluence of South Fork Eel River, was left over from a fish hatchery decommissioned after a major flood in 1964. The dam was serving no practical purpose and almost completely blocked fish passage on this otherwise-healthy, cold-water creek.

Creeks like this one are important to the larger South Fork Eel steelhead population because they offer cold-water refuges as the fish make their way down the river, especially as river water temperatures rise in the summer. They also help fish escape predation by the invasive Sacramento pikeminnow. Because Cedar Creek is much colder than the South Fork Eel, access to Cedar Creek gives steelhead a chance to escape and have an advantage over pikeminnow.

Since dam removal, CalTrout staff have already observed adult Chinook salmon spawning above the former dam’s location. These fish likely would not have been able to make it past the dam if it were still in place, given low water levels at the timing of observation. Moving forward, CalTrout will continue to conduct spawning surveys to identify adults using the creek.

Project Partners:

Yangshe Gomde Buddhist Retreat Center
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife
McBain Associates
SHN Engineering
Hanford Applied Restoration & Conservation (Hanford ARC)