One aspect of the work done by the Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP) is mechanical channel rehabilitation. This activity involves restoring and maintaining channel morphology characteristics at 47 sites along the Trinity River. Rehabilitation work in 2009 includes restoration activities at the Sawmill site, just downstream from Cemetery Hole. These restoration activities include floodplain lowering/recontouring, side channel development, gravel augmentation, large woody debris placement, riparian establishment, and other geomorphic and aquatic habitat enhancement activities. The work at the Sawmill site will treat approximately ¾ miles of river channel and process 11,000 cubic yards of gravel for placement in the river during construction. Some of this gravel will be stockpiled for injection into the river during high flows next spring. This project will reconnect the river with up to 25 acres of floodplain at different flows in the river and improve about two miles of edge habitat that may be utilized by juvenile salmon and steelhead.

Construction activities on this project began on August 10, 2009 and will be completed by December 2009.

If you need further information please contact Jennifer Faler at (530) 623-1800.