Our principal project, for the past several years, has been the restoration of Coho salmon and steelhead in the Lagunitas Creek watershed. A dam was built across the stream to provide irrigation for local agriculture in the 1920’s. In the 50’s, a fish ladder was erected and had since fallen into poor condition. Water flowed through leaks in the bottom of a cell, the fish were misled to the base of the dam face and injured themselves trying to leap over it. This led to TU CA obtaining a $10,000 Embrace-A-Stream grant from National TU providing seed money to re-establish the base of the ladder, reduce the height of the dam, armor the sides of the stream (with boulders) where a tree had fallen and when all of that was done - cut off part of the apron below the dam and build a weir as well as a series of ladders.Those few days of hard work led to a dedication in the presence of the Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt and much national television coverage in 1998.
