PROJECTS

Rooney Dam Restoration
Cosumnes River Salmon Passage
Granless Dam Fish Ladder Reconstruction
Cosumnes River Spawning Habitat Restoration
Stanislaus Habitat Use Pilot Investigation
Lower Calaveras River Anadromous Fish Barrier Removal Project
Net Pen Acclimation
Summary of Calaveras River and Mormon Sough/Diverting Canal Fish Stranding and Relocation

Kimball Island Research
Central Valley Juvenile Salmonid Studies
Cosumnes River Floodplain Studies
Rattlesnake Creek Fish Rescue & BMP Monitoring
Cosumnes Flow Augmentation Pilot Program
West Delta Surveys

The Fishery Foundation of California's Current Projects

Cosumnes River Salmon Passage

Granlees Dam and four flashboard dams along the Lower Cosumnes River have impeded the passage of upstream migrating Chinook salmon. In 1998 the FFC began a program to develop and impement fish passage solutions to each of these sites. To date the FFC has completely rebuilt the south ladder at Granlees Dam, constructed a box culvert at a low flow crossing, and improved passage at three flashboard dam foundations by manipulating the rip rap approach and installing concrete curbs to focus the flows at the structures. The FFC currently has funds to install a boulder weir at the remaining flashboard dam and to rebuild the north ladder at Granlees Dam in the summer of 2010. These actions will eliminate the remaining barriers on the Cosumnes River.