[env-trinity] Watershed Grants - Eureka Times Standard

[Josh Allen]

Hi All,

 

I am very excited to hear about the Yuroks, the County, & the RCD being
granted funding from the EPA. This is an excellent opportunity for us to
work together and get a lot of work done all over in the watershed for
the restoration of the river. 

 

Specifically, this grant will fund $250,000 to the County to help with
floodplain restoration in the Indian Creek Project area with the Trinity
River Restoration Project, which is set to begin sometime next year.  

 

I am personally pleased to hear that this grant was awarded. This grant
represents my first achievement in bring in extra funding on behalf of
the County for restoration work on the river, and I look forward to
bring in more funding in the future. 

 

I would like to thank the Yurok Tribe for this opportunity to apply for
the grant with them and nominating the Trinity River for funding through
the EPA Watershed Grant Program. I would also like to thank all of the
staff that worked on this grant proposal with me from the Yurok Tribe &
the RCD, and especially Dave Hillemeier for going the extra mile to make
sure that our combined proposal was complete, accurate, and on time.  

 

Cheers!

 

Joshua Allen

Assistant Planner

Trinity County Planning Department

Natural Resources Division

PO Box 2819

Weaverville, CA 96093

(530)623-1351 ext. 3411

(530)623-1358 fax

jallen at trinitycounty.org <mailto:jallen at trinitycounty.org> 

jwa7 at humboldt.edu <mailto:jwa7 at humboldt.edu>  (secondary)

 

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From: env-trinity-bounces at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us
[mailto:env-trinity-bounces at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us] On Behalf Of
Byron 
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 2:17 PM
To: FOTR List; Trinity List Server
Subject: [env-trinity] Watershed Grants - Eureka Times Standard

 

Nov 11, 2005 
The Times-Standard 
Eureka Times Standard 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted the Yurok Tribe and
Trinity County $835,000 to protect and restore the Trinity and lower
Klamath rivers. 

The grant is one of 12 in a $9 million package from the Targeted
Watersheds Grant Program. The program aims to get on-the-ground work
done following completed watershed assessments. 

The money will be spent in part on Terwer Creek on the lower Klamath.
The Yurok Tribe will decommission 1.1 miles of road, rehabilitate 18
hillside areas, stabilize1,000 feet of stream bank and plant 800 trees. 

Other money will go to Trinity County for work on Indian Creek on the
Trinity River to clear vegetation, remove sediment, reshape the river
channel and revegetate areas so more water can be allowed to flow from
Trinity Dam. 

In Hidden Valley on the South Fork Trinity River, the Trinity County
Resource Conservation District will take out 5 miles of roads and remove
sediment. 

The projects are part of ongoing partnerships including the 2000 plan to
restore the Trinity River. Another $3 million is going into the projects
from both public and private sources. 

 

Byron Leydecker, 

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 383 9562 fx

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

http://caltrout.org

 

 

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