Urban Streams Restoration Program

General Program Information

     Funded Projects

2004–2005
2002–2003
2001–2002
2000–2001
• Example Projects
• Contacts

For the Applicant
• FAQs (pdf, 78kb)
• 2008 Final Prop 84 USRP Guidelines (pdf, 617kb)

For Active Grantees
• Invoices and Expenses

Related Resources
• Other Funding Sources
• Reference Information
• California Watershed Map (pdf, 351kb)

Welcome

The Urban Streams Restoration Program (USRP) funds grants to local communities for projects to reduce flooding and erosion and associated property damages; restore, enhance, or protect the natural ecological values of streams; and promote community involvement, education, and stewardship.

Since 1985, the program has provided over 240 grants ranging from $1,000 to $1 million to communities throughout California. The projects have included stream cleanups, bank stabilization projects, revegetation efforts, recontouring of channels to improve floodplain function and occasional acquisition of strategic floodplain properties or easements.

For more detailed information on many projects that the program has funded, visit the University of California, Davis Natural Resource Project Inventory. Project names followed by "DWR Z*****" have received funding from the Urban Streams Restoration Program.

• Example projects funded by the Urban Streams Program.

• $4.575 Million, fiscal Year 2004/2005: Seventeen projects were selected for the first and only $4.575 million in Proposition 40 funding.

• $8.7 Million, Fiscal Year 2002-2003: Twenty-six projects were selected for the final $8.7 million in Proposition 13 funding.
• $10 Million, Fiscal Year 2001-2002: Eligible applications not selected for funding during the first $2 million cycle were automatically considered for the $10 million in available funding for Fiscal Year 2001/2002. Twenty-six projects were selected for funding.
• $2 Million, Fiscal Year 2000-2001: Eleven projects were selected for the first $2 million in Proposition 13 funding.

Program Manager

Jerry Snow
Staff Environmental Scientist
Phone: (916) 651-9626
e-mail: glsnow@water.ca.gov

Headquarters Staff

Kevin Marr
Environmental Scientist
Phone: (916) 651-9621
e-mail: kmarr@water.ca.gov

Melissa Roberts
Staff Analyst
Phone: (916) 651-0163
e-mail: merobert@water.ca.gov

Mailing Address

Urban Streams Restoration Program
FESSRO
P. O. Box 942836
Sacramento, CA
94236-0001

Location

Urban Streams Restoration Program
Department of Water Resources
901 P Street, Room 411A
Sacramento, CA 95814