Bull Creek Hamilton Floodplain Restoration Project

The Bull Creek channel and its watershed exemplify the North-Coast’s century-and-a-half history of early settlement centered on rapid and excessive resource extraction leading to erosion, instream sediment deposition, and reduced quality and quantity of instream salmonid habitat. The Bull Creek Instream and Floodplain Habitat Restoration Project will restore floodplain habitat along the Hamilton Sub-reach of Bull Creek and provide multiple benefits to all life stages of Bull Creek salmonids. The project will result in improved floodplain connectivity, instream channel complexity and pool frequency, create off-channel winter rearing habitat, reduce summer stream temperature, and promote sediment sorting and spawning riffle development.

Project Partners: Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Northern Hydrology and Engineering, Mattole Restoration Council

 

DIVISION: Heavy Civil Construction Services

Location: Humboldt Redwoods State Park

CLIENT: Cal-Trout

Contract Period: June 2023 - November 2023

STATUS: In PROGRESS