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- Bear Creek
- Big Chico Creek
- Butte Creek Watershed
Lower Butte Creek
Weir 2
Willow Slough Weir
DWR Pumping Plants - Calaveras River Watershed
- Calaveras River
- Calaveras River - Budiselich Dam
- Clear Creek
- Clover Creek
- Deer Creek
- Dry Creek Watershed
Dry Creek
Dry Creek - Miners Ravine - Lake Davis
- Marsh Creek
- Murphy Creek
- Sacramento River
- Stanislaus River
- York Creek
- Yolo Bypass
- Yuba River Watershed
Yuba River
Yuba River - Daguerre Point Dam
Background
Dry Creek originates in the lower Sierra Nevada foothills northwest of Folsom Lake and is located within Sacramento and Placer counties. Fall-run chinook salmon and Central Valley steelhead are found in upstream tributaries such as Antelope Creek, Miners Ravine (Cottonwood Dam), and Secret Ravine. There are a number of dams and pipeline crossings that impede the migration of salmonids to upstream spawning habitat.
Project
FPIP worked with the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA) and others to evaluate different options to address fish passage
at Hayer Dam in Rio Linda, the first barrier to upstream migrants on Dry Creek. SAFCA, the owner of the dam, hired
an engineering firm to develop modification designs for the dam and a public pedestrian bridge. FPIP staff also
participated in initial design review to help refine and further develop an appropriate fish passage option for the
diversion dam. In 2004, Hayer Dam was removed, a pump station was installed, and a rock weir fish ladder was constructed to provide anadromous fish passage.