… Over the course of his (Alameda Creek Alliance founder Jeff Miller’s) career, he has participated in lawsuits, protests, and hundreds of board meetings, alongside hundreds of other people. More than $100 million dollars have been spent across state funding, federal grants, and agency money. Almost every barrier to fish migration in Alameda Creek has been removed. This week, the last barrier that can feasibly be removed in our lifetimes—a concrete structure over a PG&E gas pipeline—will begin coming down. By 2026, Alameda Creek will flow free. This final barrier removal opens up some twenty miles of creek—a new survival path for steelhead in the Bay. But what is just as remarkable is the three-decade process that got us to this point has reshaped not only the creek but our public agencies, and their approach to fish and watershed stewardship. 

Other anadromous fish restoration news:

• Defense Visual Information Distribution Service: Blog: USACE fish passage project offers lifeline to threatened and endangered fish species in California’s Central Valley