[Lapg] Central Coast Road Decommissioning & Enhancement Field School October 23-25

Wed Sep 5 21:12:18 PDT 2007

Hey Friends in the Santa Barbara area,

I just wanted to put this workshop on your radar. 
For those of you doing watershed, ranch scale 
permaculture and keyline related restoration work 
– Bill & Danny of PWA have absolutely been my 
main mentors for how to deal with rural roads in 
the most fish friendly and economically effective 
ways! They literally wrote the book on it! If you 
would like to get grant money from DF&G for road 
related fish habitat improvement work, then you 
will need to be following the PWA protocols that 
they have written for the DFG fisheries restoration manual.

Anyway please pass it on to others who need this 
info. Especially to people who like to move lots 
of dirt with big yellow toys, like road 
contractors and such. In rural settings it is the 
road network that typically accounts for the 
majority of the delivery of sediment to our creek and rivers and thus ocean.

Hope all are well!
Brock

Brock Dolman
WATER Institute Director
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
15290 Coleman Valley Road
Occidental, CA 95465
707-874-1557 x 206
Brock at oaec.org
www.oaecwater.org
www.oaec.org

Central Coast Road Decommissioning & Enhancement Field School October 23-25

Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Salmonid 
Restoration Federation, Pacific Watershed 
Associates and CA Department of Fish and Game are 
offering the last scheduled Roads and Culverts 
Field School in the Central Coast area October 
23-25, 2007. The field school will address 
culvert and road drainage practices to protect 
and benefit steelhead and water quality in the 
Central Coast region. This course will include 
several sessions in the field and will focus on 
proper ditch relief and stream crossing culvert 
installation as well as installation of critical 
rolling dips or measures to eliminate stream 
diversions. Classroom and field methods will 
highlight appropriate culvert sizing for peak 
stream flows, sediment and woody debris in 
transport. The classes will include approaches 
for addressing potential road fill and landing 
failures, as well as spoil disposal techniques 
and illustrate a variety of road bed and ditch 
drainage approaches. Participants will learn how 
to properly excavate a stream crossing fill to 
minimize post excavation erosion and sediment 
delivery to streams, and how to reduce roadbed 
width on excessively wide segments of road. For 
more info, please visit www.calsalmon.org 
<<http://mcsv.net/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=iBytCMmry43b5bee7e57>http://mcsv.net/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=iBytCMmry43b5bee7e57> 
or call CCSE at (805) 473-8221.

This field school will be held at El Capital 
Canyon along the beautiful Santa Barbara area 
coast 
(<http://www.elcapitancanyon.com/>http://www.elcapitancanyon.com/ 
<http://www.elcapitancanyon.com/> ) and the field 
component will include projects completed or in 
the planning stages within Santa Barbara County. 
You won't want to miss this last opportunity to 
learn from Pacific Watershed Associates Danny 
Hagans and Bill Weaver and to enjoy the unique 
surroundings at El Capital Canyon while attending the field school.

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