Last updated on 10/02/2025

The San Joaquin River Restoration Program

The SJRRP is a comprehensive, long-term effort to restore flows to the San Joaquin River from Friant Dam to the confluence with the Merced River and a self-sustaining Chinook salmon population while reducing or avoiding adverse water supply impacts.
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Infrastructure

The Program has multiple projects to reconnect the river while maintaining and improving water supply reliability. Learn about those here!
Infrastructure

Fish reintroduction

A key component of meeting the terms of the Settlement is reintroducing spring-run Chinook salmon. Learn about the Program's extensive and cutting-edge reintroduciton effort.
Fish Reintroduction

Arroyo Canal Fish Screen and Sack Dam Fish Passage Project

Featured Project

Arroyo Canal Fish Screen and Sack Dam Fish Passage Project

The Arroyo Canal Fish Screen and Sack Dam Fish Passage Project is the Program's first major fish passage project and is integral to restoring spring-run Chinook salmon to the San Joaquin River while improving agricultural water deliveries.
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Featured Stories

In another step forward for the Program, the upper weir on the Merced National Wildlife Refuge has been successfully removed to aid with fish passage in the Eastside Bypass.
By Josh Newcom · September 21, 2021

Second Weir Removed in Eastside Bypass

fires burning through a forrest
By Josh Newcom · December 14, 2020

Burning Question: How To Predict Runoff After Catastrophic Wildfire?

2020 Virtual Science Meeting Videos Available
By Josh Newcom · July 29, 2020

2020 Virtual Science Meeting Videos Available!