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Petaluma River Channel maintenance dredging project

Petaluma River Channel maintenance dredging project April 6, 2021, posted by Zlatan Hrvacevic In a continuing project designed to open up the Petaluma River as a viable recreational and commercial waterway, Pacific Dredge and Construction LLC performed a second substantial dredging job commissioned by the United States Corps of Engineers. The crews used powerful mechanical clamshell dredging equipment to remove and dispose of mud and silt that lined the bottom of the main artery for this once-vibrant river community. Pacific Dredge and Construction had previously used hydraulic dredging equipment in reaches 1-5 to remove more than 190,000 cubic yards of sediment along an 18-mile thoroughfare linking Petaluma to the San Pablo Bay.

Endangered trout may soon return to the paved Los Angeles River

Hemmed in by towering concrete floodwalls, the urban river courses nearly 49 miles through Los Angeles County, from its headwaters in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains to its mouth in Long Beach.  The river was left in a relatively natural state until 1938, when a disastrous flood breached its banks, killing 115 people and destroying 5,000 homes. Pressure quickly built on both the city and the federal government to take drastic action to contain the river. Although this radical transformation protected human life and property, it also diminished a diverse riparian ecosystem  that hosted spawning grounds for various aquatic species, including the southern California steelhead trout, which is now federally endangered. These days, the much-reduced river supports only the hardiest of species, most of them non-native, such as sunfish and carp.

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