Alameda Creek Watershed
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Update on SFPUC Projects in the<br />
<strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong><br />
<strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong> Council<br />
October 28, 2010<br />
Carla Schultheis, SFPUC
SFPUC Projects in the <strong>Alameda</strong><br />
<strong>Creek</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong><br />
• <strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong><br />
HCP<br />
• Sunol Valley<br />
Restoration Plan<br />
• Calaveras Dam<br />
Replacement Project<br />
• Other WSIP Projects
WEIP<br />
Overview<br />
• Water Enterprise<br />
Environmental<br />
Stewardship Policy<br />
• WEIP initiated in FY<br />
05/06<br />
• 10 year $50 million<br />
investment<br />
• Measure A Bond and<br />
Water Enterprise<br />
Operating Budget funds
To protect and restore lands and natural<br />
resources critical to or affected by the<br />
operation of the SFPUC water system
<strong>Watershed</strong> and Environmental<br />
Improvement Program<br />
Objectives<br />
• Ecosystem protection and restoration<br />
• Public outreach and education<br />
• Collaboration<br />
• Invest across watershed regions<br />
• Develop monitoring and feedback mechanisms<br />
Criteria<br />
• Consistent with plans and policies<br />
• Above and beyond mitigation/permitting requirements<br />
• Above and beyond routine maintenance activities
<strong>Watershed</strong> and Environmental Improvement Program (WEIP)<br />
Project Funding Options<br />
Natural Resources and Lands Management Division<br />
Preliminary Concept Projects<br />
To Protect and Restore Natural Resources<br />
WSIP<br />
Habitat Reserve<br />
Program<br />
Habitat<br />
Conservation<br />
Plans<br />
<strong>Watershed</strong> and<br />
Environmental<br />
Improvement<br />
Program<br />
Other<br />
Projects
<strong>Watershed</strong> and Environmental<br />
Improvement Program<br />
Prioritization<br />
• Direct impact protecting/restoring natural<br />
resources<br />
• Critical to SFPUC water system operations<br />
• Partners/cost share opportunities<br />
• Inform other projects/programs<br />
• Failure to act may cause environmental harm<br />
or a lost opportunity<br />
• Time sensitive project
SFPUC WATER SYSTEM
<strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong>
Upper <strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> WEIP<br />
Funding Priorities<br />
• <strong>Watershed</strong> protection<br />
• Outreach and education<br />
• Habitat restoration
<strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong><br />
Protection Project<br />
• MOU with ACRCD<br />
• Educate landowners about watershed protection project<br />
opportunities<br />
• Coordinate with others working in the watershed<br />
• Fee title acquisition<br />
• Conservation easements
Sunol Temple AgPark<br />
• 9 year lease with SAGE<br />
• Unique urban edge farm<br />
• Sustainable agriculture<br />
• Natural resource<br />
stewardship<br />
• Public education focuses<br />
on the agricultural,<br />
natural, and cultural<br />
resources of the Sunol<br />
Valley.<br />
• 4 th -8 th grade curriculum
<strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong> Center<br />
In Sunol<br />
• Offer education and<br />
interpretation programs about<br />
water, the <strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong><br />
<strong>Watershed</strong>.<br />
• Promote stewardship and<br />
conservation<br />
• Provide a new, multi-use facility<br />
as well as improvements<br />
• Create a gathering place for the<br />
public, Town of Sunol, SAGE<br />
and SFPUC
Other WEIP Projects<br />
• Sunol and Niles Dam Removal<br />
• Arroyo de la Laguna Restoration<br />
• <strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong> Weed and Rare<br />
Plant Surveys<br />
• <strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong> Rangeland<br />
Monitoring<br />
• <strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> Historical Ecology<br />
Study<br />
• Calaveras and San Antonio<br />
Reservoirs Hypolimnetic<br />
Oxygenation System Installation
WEIP Projects Outside of the<br />
<strong>Alameda</strong> <strong>Creek</strong> <strong>Watershed</strong><br />
Tuolumne River<br />
Lake Merced<br />
Pilarcitos <strong>Creek</strong>
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