NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation

Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek

Last year, California Trout and Pacific Gas & Electric removed the final barrier to fish passage on California’s Alameda Creek with funding from NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation. For the first time in 50 years, threatened Central California Coast steelhead and other migratory fish can reach spawning grounds and juvenile rearing habitat in the upper watershed. Construction crews relocated a Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) natural gas pipeline and removed its concrete covering.