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EXAMPLES OF DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES 

 ASSISTED STREAM RESTORATION PROJECTS 



The following projects are selected 

 for description in this pamphlet in 

 order to give examples of the range of 

 activities that have been awarded 

 grants by the Department of Water 

 Resources. 



BUTTE ENVIRONMENTAL 

 COUNCIL AND STREAMINDEko 



D LITTLE CHICO CREEK, 

 DEAD HORSE SLOUGH, 

 L1ND0 CHANNEL 



AND 



"Streaminders", a local volunteer 

 organization, has worked with the 

 public school system in the racially- 

 mixed, low-to-moderate income 

 Chapman neighborhood of Chico, to 

 develop community interest in main- 

 taining the two streams through their 

 area. The project has included con- 

 ducting classroom educational pro- 

 grams, stream sign making projects, 

 cleanup projects, and vegetation 

 management volunteer work projects. 

 An additional objective has been to 

 improve fish habitat. By working with 

 volunteer groups including Moose 

 Lodge members, Girl Scouts, Boy 

 Scouts, Chico Flyfishers, and others, 

 the Streaminders also coordinated 

 restoration projects on Lindo Chan- 

 nel. One project uses an innovative 



Stream restoration along Lindo Channel 

 included a broad spectrum of the 



community. 



"Palmiter" bank stabilization techni- 

 que using staked dead and live 

 vegetation to deflect stream flows and 

 restore an eroding bank. Assistance 

 with project design and implementa- 

 tion was provided by Butte County, 

 the City of Chico, the Soil Conserva- 

 tion Service, and Chico State 

 University. 



Little Chico Creek, Chico, California. 

 Children can be an important part of a 

 community's stream restoration plan; this 

 sign on Little Chico Creek reflects their 

 enthusiasm about the creek. 



Lindo Channel, Chico, California. 

 Members of the California Conservation 

 Corps are securing dead vegetation 

 ' 'deflectors ' ' to divert flows away from an 

 eroding bank. 



