Thanks to the Santa Clara Valley Water District, fish can swim upstream again to spawn and will be able to do so for many years to come.In 2015, after 18 years of planning and collaborating with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the district completed the first of three fish passage projects that will allow the endangered steelhead trout and other fish to swim under bridges and migrate to their spawning grounds.In the Stevens Creek-Evelyn Bridge Fish Passage Project, a 10-person crew worked for nearly two months to remove two concrete weirs and excavate a low-flow channel with
Santa Clara Water District Keeps Steelhead Trout Moving
A California water district undertakes a stream improvement project to enable unimpeded annual spawning migrations for steelhead trout.
Dec 06, 2016
| by Jeff Smith |
