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Location Description City of Corte Madera and City of Novato.

This project would improve fish passage in the Arroyo Corte Madera, Corte Madera
Creek and Novato Creek watersheds. Project benefits include improved fish access to spawning gravels and rearing habitat. This project requires preparation of final construction designs, CEQA documentation,
permitting and construction of fish passage restoration projects.Several projects are planned, including:
1) San Anselmo Creek Fish Passage Improvement: Replacement of two inadequate
fish ladders with structures that meet current fish passage criteria.
2) Mill Valley projects: Improvements at Site ID MR-068 Arroyo Corte Madera Creek
#1 at Locust Avenue and Site ID MR-077 Cascade Creek #3 at Cascade Drive.
3) Vineyard Creek at McClay Road retrofit -tributary to Novato Creek: Construction
of three to four boulder weirs at this site to raise the tailwater and installation of
corner baffles within the box culvert.

Purpose of the project is improve fish passage restoration in the Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio, Corte Madera and the Novato Creek watersheds for Federally threatened Steelhead.
Flood Protection, Watershed Management, Fish Passage, Creeks, Habitat Protection, Spawning, Steelhead
Ecosystem Restoration, Environmental and habitat protection and improvement, Flood management
Flood Protection & Stormwater Management