SACRAMENTO — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District announce the availability of a Draft Environmental Assessment/Initial study (EA/IS), Proposed Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), and Proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) for the Clover Creek / Millville Diversion Fisheries Restoration Project.
The Proposed Action is located on Clover Creek, tributary to Cow Creek in Shasta County, California. The Proposed Action would improve fish passage fish passage
Fish passage is the ability of fish or other aquatic species to move freely throughout their life to find food, reproduce, and complete their natural migration cycles. Millions of barriers to fish passage across the country are fragmenting habitat and leading to species declines. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fish Passage Program is working to reconnect watersheds to benefit both wildlife and people.
Learn more about fish passage conditions at two separate sites that currently block fish passage: a concrete inverted siphon and the Millville Diversion Dam.
The Proposed Action would improve anadromous fish access to spawning, rearing and holding stream habitat upstream of the project site through installation of fish ladders, and would improve fish passage downstream of the project site through fish screen, bypass pipe installation and an associated exposed siphon upgrade.
The Draft EA/IS, proposed FONSI and proposed MND will be available for public review through September 30, 2015. Written comments on the document can be mailed to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2800 Cottage Way, Room W-2606, Sacramento, Ca 95825, Attention Mr. Dan Meier, or to the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, 6270 Parallel Road, Anderson, CA 96007, Attention Ms. Maureen Teubert.
Comments can also be submitted electronically to Dan_Meier@fws.gov or maureen@westernshastarcd.org.
Electronic Copies of the documents are available at: http://www.fws.gov/cno/fisheries/cvpia/AnadromFishScreen.cfm
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