News release: A necessary building block of fish survival is added to the Sacramento River
In addition to sufficient flows of cold water, chinook salmon migrating in the Sacramento River depend on having sufficient gravel in the riverbed to support spawning. In response to that need, Reclamation and its partners — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento River Settlement Contractors, Reclamation District 108, and the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District – recently completed placing 20,000 tons of spawning gravel on the west bank of the Sacramento River below Keswick Dam.