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The Family Water Alliance, Inc. Sacramento River Fish Screen Program (SRFSP) has been working diligently throughout the last year to secure grant funding to continue the screen program on diversions located throughout California.
Phase 8, aptly named the Sacramento/Central Valley Fish Screen Program, involves the installation of fish screens on various diversions on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers. Projects under this grant will be sites that do not currently fit into the scope of work for Phase 7 of the Program, yet the benefits to the fishery resources by screening multiple sites would be extremely complimentary to current efforts to restore salmon populations in the California Central Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
Diversions will be screened using a team of professionals with a proven track record of cost effective fish screening in the Sacramento-Central Valley. The work under this grant will occur with oversight by the Anadromous Fish Screen Program (AFSP), which is a U.S. Department of the Interior fish screening program jointly administered by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Bureau of Reclamation, and
the California Dept. of Fish and Game.
Sites currently up for consideration are located on the Sacramento River, Feather River, Merced River and the Auburn Ravine. Many diversions have environmental issues that are requiring them to install a fish screen on their existing pumps, or are considered high-priority areas for fishery restoration and screening.
FWA will be working with our Program partners in the next month to select up to five sites for screening under this grant to complete screening of the sites before the end of 2012.
To sign-up your diversion under the fish screen program, please contact FWA at (530) 438-2026, fwa@frontiernet.net or online at http://www.fwafishforum.com.
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