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The Aquatic Restoration Planning and Implementation Section was established to support the CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Program by developing habitat enhancement and fish passage improvement in the Yolo Bypass. The section collaborates with the Yolo Basin Foundation and other local groups to identify, study, and work to implement such opportunities on public lands and the lands of willing participants. The Aquatic Restoration Planning and Implementation Section supports efforts to create regionally significant improvements in riparian, tidal marsh, and seasonal floodplain habitats in the Yolo Bypass. This effort is compatible with maintaining or improving seasonal flood flow capacity of the bypass while improving habitat diversity and quality.

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Projects and studies include:

• Fish passage and aquatic habitat evaluations
• Sediment erosion/accretion studies
• 1-D and 2-D flow model development
• Monitoring flows and stages
• Design potential restoration action in lower Putah Creek
• Improve fish passage at Lisbon Weir
• Support the Lower Sacramento River Regional Planning Process