Ventura, Calif.-- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Game will host a public meeting on the draft environmental assessment and restoration plan for the Santa Clara River on Tuesday, January 15, 2002, in Ventura.
The meeting will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center, Channel Islands National Park; 1901 Spinnaker Drive. Service and DFG staff will provide an overview of the proposed alternatives, answer questions, and take comments on the proposed alternatives or suggestions for other restoration projects.
The Service and DFG Office of Spill Prevention and Response, the trustee council in charge of the restoration, will use $7.1 million in settlement funds under the federal Oil Pollution Act, including accrued interest, to pay for restoration projects. The trustees developed the draft environmental assessment and restoration plan after meetings with public and private agencies and groups. A public scoping meeting to receive suggestions on restoration projects was held in October 1998.
In January 1994, an oil pipeline owned by ARCO Pipe Line Co. ruptured during the Northridge earthquake, sending about 190,000 gallons of oil into a 16-mile stretch of the Santa Clara River. The oil damaged or destroyed about 100 acres of riparian riparian
Definition of riparian habitat or riparian areas.
Learn more about riparian plants, and impacted 150 acres of river sediment and an undetermined number of fish, bird, and wildlife species, including the Federal and state endangered unarmored three-spine stickleback and the least Bell
