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Under the direction of Ashlan Alldredge and Darwin Richardson, this 700-foot long project has given CCBER the opportunity to implement riparian restoration techniques to restore and stabilize the banks of this newly widened creek. |
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Lisa Stratton
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CCBER’s newest restoration projects are in the tributaries to Devereux Slough. The University offset the potential impacts of building North Campus faculty housing in the floodplain by replacing a culvert with a bridge along Venoco Road and laying back the eastern bank of Phelps Creek between Marymount Way and the Ocean Meadows Golf Course. Under the direction of Ashlan Alldredge and Darwin Richardson, this 700-foot long project has given CCBER the opportunity to implement riparian restoration techniques to restore and stabilize the banks of this newly widened creek.
Care was taken to protect threatened species during the project. The rare Santa Barbara honeysuckle (Lonicera subspicata var. subspicata) was protected and replanted on the site. The project also had the potential to impact the federally endangered tidewater goby, a species of special concern in California, but subcontractors, under permit from the Army Corps of Engineers and the California Department of Fish and Game, moved and protected the fish during the de-watering portions of the project. The North Campus housing project construction is scheduled to start by December 2008.
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Soon after the banks of El Encanto Creek (Phelps Ditch) were laid back, willow cuttings and
erosion control blanket were installed as part of the restoration and bank stabilization project. |
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The project handled the first storms of 2008 in fine form, enabling more natural creek
processes to occur. This water level reflects a relatively large storm event,
likely to occur about once every 5 years |
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By early spring 2008 the willows were sprouting and becoming established. |
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