The SJRRP established a Restoration Goal Technical Feedback Group (TFG) in 2009. The Restoration Goal TFG l addresses technical topics related to the implementation of the Settlement’s Restoration Goal. Topics include, but may not be limited to, the following: All aspects of the planning and environmental documentation for the necessary channel improvements including alternatives development […]
The Restoration Goal includes 10 channel and structural improvement projects. The Program combined these into 4 projects for planning and design purposes. Three are underway: Mendota Pool Bypass and Reach 2B Channel Improvements Project The Arroyo Canal Fish Screen and Sack Dam Fish Passage Project (“vee” fish screen and new dam) Reach 4B, Eastside and […]
September 6, 2017 – A pulse flow intended to mimic the natural hyrdrograph of the river was recently made from Friant Dam in order to assist 120 adult spring-run Chinook salmon with access to available habitat for spawning. Approximately 1,250 acre-feet of the 2017 Restoration Flow allocation was used for the pulse flow which began […]
Friant Dam Releases Flow Scheduling Forecasts | Allocations | Recommendations | Evaluations | Spreadsheet | Notifications The amount of water available for the SJRRP, the Restoration Allocation, depends upon the amount of runoff in the San Joaquin River watershed above Friant Dam. Using several water supply forecasts for the Friant Division of the Central Valley […]
Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon evolved to take advantage of the Sierra’s cold, snow-fed, mountain water. Making the journey from the Pacific Ocean upriver much earlier than their fall-run counterparts, spring-run Chinook adults return to their natal streams when flows are high and water temperatures are low. Then, instead of spawning and completing their lifecycle […]
Fire created unknowns, many are hopeful new data will benefit San Joaquin River management After a record-setting season of catastrophic wildfires in California, no single fire in 2020 burned more than the Creek Fire in the Upper San Joaquin River watershed east of Fresno. The Creek Fire, the largest single-source fire in California history, ravaged […]
The Program has reintroduction activities for both juvenile and adults spring-run Chinook salmon — the species of focus for the Program and listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. San Joaquin River spring-run Chinook salmon evolved to live in both fresh and salt water environments. Hatched from an egg in rivers, streams and creeks, […]
December 1, 2017 Seasonal Monitoring Reveals a Program Milestone: Successful Spawning A multi-agency effort to bring salmon runs back to the San Joaquin River has proven it is possible for spring-run Chinook salmon to successfully spawn in the river – a major first milestone for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program. […]
The Water Management goal is to reduce or avoid adverse water supply impacts to all of the Friant Division long-term contractors that may result from the Interim Flows and Restoration Flows provided for in the Settlement. Paragraph 16(a) of the Settlement directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop and implement a plan for recirculation, […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Highlighting successful collaboration to improve water supply management, two John W. Keys, III Awards were presented at the third biennial San Joaquin River Restoration Program Science Meeting held in Sacramento, California on August 22 and 23. In keeping with the meeting theme “Collaborating for the Future,” the Keys Award recipients were recognized […]