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Abode Creek Fish Ladder
Abode Creek Fish Ladder
The Adobe Creek Fish Ladder Project is an excellent example of the principals working behind the Community-Based Restoration Program. The project involves a partnership with an organization of high school students, the United Anglers of Casa Grande, who have successfully restored and maintained fish runs that had been nearly extirpated from the highly modified Adobe Creek. The students and their teacher worked for over a decade to clean up the river and to restore proper hydrology to the Creek. When the students needed to construct a permanent step-pool fish ladder system to provide passage for steelhead trout and Chinook salmon over a 12-foot obstruction, they contacted local NMFS restoration specialists. NMFS funded construction of the fish ladder, in partnership with other local, state and federal agencies, and the student group maintains the ladder and monitors its success as a fish passway as part of their ongoing stewardship of Adobe Creek.
Argilla Road Restoration of a Tidally-Restricted Salt Marsh
Adobe Creek Fish Ladder
Restoration
Looking downstream as the water flows over the completed pools.
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A wide angle view of the fish pools.
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A view of the completed fish pools.
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A high flow event, preconstruction. Before the fishway passage was constructedmigrating fish needed to breach a 12 foot rise where the culvert dropped off.
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Looking upstream at the culvert
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Looking into the culvert
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The extreme drop at the culvert was eliminated by the restoration.
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From the culvert looking downstream at the completed fish pools.
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A view downstream of the completed pools
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Water rushes over the lip of the pools
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Water flows downstream over the completed pools.
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The United Anglers under Tom Furrer's direction raised funds to build a fishhatchery. This image shows the completed structure.
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