As with any river, flows are paramount to the health of that river. The San Joaquin River Restoration Program closely monitors all aspects of flows within the river between the releases at Friant Dam, down to the confluence of the Merced River by using in-stream monitoring gauges and close coordination with dam operators, water diverters […]
The Monitoring and Analysis Plan (MAP), formerly known as the Agency Plan, describes upcoming monitoring and analysis to manage Interim and Restoration Flows for the next year of the San Joaquin River Restoration Program.
Program partner agencies the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish & Wildlife conduct annual surveys to count redds (fish nests) and carcasses of adults that die after spawning. Currently, these salmon are experimental releases of ancillary spring-run Chinook broodstock. Weekly reports of these surveys, when they are conducted, are posted […]
Part III of the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement (SJRRS) Act authorizes and directs the Secretary to conduct additional Water Management Goal actions, including a program to provide financial assistance to local agencies within the Central Valley Project for the purposes of designing and constructing ground water recharge or banking facilities that offset water supply […]
As part of the San Joaquin River Restoration Program, routine year-round monitoring of fish throughout their lifecycle is conducted in the Restoration Area. Following spawning, rotary screw traps — large, conical strainer-like devices — are installed in key locations of the upper Restoration Area in order to sample the number of juveniles naturally spawned in […]
Public funding from voter-approved state bonds Proposition 84 and Proposition 1, are being combined with $17 million of Proposition 13 funds from the Department of Water Resources’ Riverine Stewardship Program, to fund construction of the new $40 million Salmon Conservation and Research Facility (SCARF). The project is currently in the final stages of construction. The […]
For the first time in over 65 years, threatened Central Valley spring-run Chinook adult salmon have completed their life cycle and returned to the Restoration Area. While spring-run have been placed as adults in the river previously, this is the first time Program fish have migrated out of the system as juveniles and returned as […]