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■ COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD 

 and RESOURCE CONSERVATION 

 DISTRICT OF SANTA CRUZ 

 COUNTY 



D BORREGAS CREEK 



Borregas Creek is located within a 

 housing development in Aptos where 

 serious erosion of the channel is en- 

 dangering the adjacent properties. 

 The restoration work has been con- 

 ducted by the Community Action 

 Board (CAB) which works under con- 

 tract with the Job Training and Part- 

 nership Act of the local Private In- 

 dustry Council to cover half of the 

 crew wages. This aspect of the grant 

 contributes toward training of the 

 Santa Cruz Countv unemployed. The 

 grant is being supported by contribu- 

 tions to CAB by the Dean Witter 

 Foundation. Soquel High School's 

 Agriculture class is providing 

 volunteer labor, tools and materials. 



■ REDWOOD COMMUNITY ACTION 

 AGENCY - CITY OF FERNDALE, 

 HUMBOLDT COUNTY 



Z FRANCIS CREEK 



Francis Creek runs through the 

 center of the City of Ferndale, and has 

 created both flooding and bank in- 

 stability problems for buildings adja- 

 cent to the creek. Landowners have 

 individually modified the creek chan- 

 nel, often without permits and fre- 

 quently with the result that more 

 serious problems have been created 

 downstream. 



This grant has been used to ac- 

 complish two tasks. First, the City 

 Council of Ferndale is working with 

 the staff from the non-profit Redwood 

 Community Action Agency to 

 develop a management plan with local 

 landowners and officials so that logical 

 and coordinated projects will be done 

 in the future. Second, bank protection 

 work will be carried out next to 

 Fireman's Hall which is in immediate 

 danger from bank failure. The design 



work for the bank protection project 

 was donated by a local Registered 

 Engineering Geologist, and the Hum- 

 boldt County Public Works Depart- 

 ment and the City are donating 

 materials. The Ferndale Fire Depart- 

 ment is donating labor to the project. 

 A failed concrete crib-wall will be 

 removed, the site drainage plan 

 changed, and the creek bank will be 

 re-built and revegetated. 



■ RICHMOND BOULEVARD 



NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION 



D GLEN ECHO CREEK, OAKLAND 



The flood of 1982 damaged a rock 

 wall along Glen Echo Creek located in 

 central Oakland. The neighborhood 

 organization used a stream restoration 

 grant and obtained rock donated from 

 local utilities to rebuild a hand placed 

 rock wall. The rock wall was in- 

 terplanted with native plants. This 

 aesthetic addition to the 

 neighborhood effectively stabilized 

 the creek slopes in the 1986 flood 

 which followed. 



Glen Echo Creek, Oakland, California. A 

 dry rock wall was hand built by the 

 Richmond Boulevard Association in 

 Oakland. 



