Big Chico Creek

YEARS	PROJECT TITLE	LAST UPDATE
1995 - 2005	Spring-run Chinook salmon juvenile life history evaluation on Butte and Big Chico Creeks.	6/15/2010
1996 - 2001	Real-time flow monitoring and feed-back systems for Deer, Mill, Big Chico and Butte creeks.	6/4/2010
1996 - 1997	Peterson property acquisition and restoration.	6/16/2010
1996 - 1997	Big Chico Creek One Mile Pool Bypass water quality enhancement project.	6/16/2010
1997 - 2000	Install stream flow gages and thermographs in spring-run Chinook salmon streams.	7/13/2010
1999 - 2001	Provide analyses to improve fish passage through Iron Canyon on Big Chico Creek.	6/16/2010
1999 - 2001	Provide "Adopt-A-Watershed" training for teachers in the Chico Unified School District.	6/16/2010
2000 - 2002	Acquire Simmons Ranch on Big Chico Creek.	6/16/2010
2000 - 2001	Acquire the Singh property on Big Chico Creek.	6/16/2010
2000 - 2002	Provide support for "Kids and Creeks: Restoration Ecology in Action" for students in grades 2 through 12 in the Big Chico, Butte Creek and Feather River watersheds.	6/16/2010
2005 - 2006	Evaluation of Iron Canyon for Proposed Fish Ladder Structure Repair and Construction, Big Chico Creek.	6/16/2010
2006 - 2007	Phase II – Final Engineering, Construction Design and Cost Estimate for Iron Canyon Fish Ladder.	6/16/2010

Simmon's Ranch Property Acquisition Phase I of the Big Chico Creek Wildlife Preserve - November 18, 1999, 0.015 mb (.015 MB)

Scope of Work: Nock Walnut Orchard - 2000, 0.026 mb (.026 MB)

Real-Time Flow Monitoring Related To Spring-Run Chinook Salmon. 2000, 0.007 mb (.007 MB)

Big Chico and Butte Creeks Spring-run Chinook Salmon Juvenile Life History Evaluation - 1999, 0.011 mb (.011 MB)

Kids and Creeks: Restoration Ecology in Action - August 1999, 0.022 mb (.022 MB)

Iron Canyon and Bear Hole Fish Passage Project - Preliminary Engineering Technical Report - April 2002, 13.78 mb (3.78 MB)

Butte and Big Chico Creeks Spring-run Chinook Salmon, Oncoryhnchus tshawytscha Life History Investigation 2001-2002, 1.75 mb (1.75 MB)

Butte and Big Chico Creeks Spring-run Chinook Salmon, Oncoryhnchus tshawytscha Life History Investigation 2000-2001, 1.75 mb (1.75 MB)

Butte and Big Chico Creeks Spring-run Chinook Salmon, Oncoryhnchus tshawytscha Life History Investigation 2000-2001, 1.27 mb (1.27 MB)

Butte and Big Chico Creeks Spring-run Chinook Salmon, Oncoryhnchus tshawytscha Life History Investigation 2002-2003, 3.43 mb (3.43 MB)

Evaluation of Iron Canyon for Proposed Fish Ladder Structure Repair and Construction Final Report May 2006, 6.58 mb (6.58 MB)

Butte and Big Chico Creeks Spring-run Cinook Salmon, Oncoryhnchus tshawytscha Life History Investigation 2005-2006, 2.73 mb (2.73 MB)

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Status	Description
Not Addressed	E2. Evaluate the replenishment of gravel in the flood-diversion reach of Mud Creek.
Not Addressed	E1. Evaluate the water management operations between Big Chico Creek and Lindo Channel.
Complete	A8. Preserve the productivity of the habitat on Big Chico Creek through cooperative watershed management and development of a watershed management plan.
Ongoing	A7. Cooperate with local landowners to encourage revegetation of denuded stream reaches; and establish, restore, and maintain riparian habitat on Big Chico Creek.
Complete	A6. Protect spring-run chinook salmon summer holding pools by obtaining from willing sellers titles or conservation easements on lands adjacent to the pools.
Ongoing	A5. Improve cleaning procedures at One-Mile Pool.
Not Addressed	A4. Repair the Lindo Channel weir and fishway at the Lindo Channel box culvert at the Five-Mile Diversion.
Not Addressed	A3. Replenish spawning gravel in reaches modified for flood control.
Not Addressed	A2. Repair the Iron Canyon fish ladder.
Complete	A1. Relocate and screen the M&T Ranch diversion.