The Restoration Committee

The Dutch Slough Restoration Committee is a forum to exchange information, obtain input into the restoration planning and keep interested partners informed about other projects and regional issues that affect the Dutch Slough project. Key agencies and stakeholders have been invited to attend and participate on this Committee, and the meetings are open to the public.

Restoration Committee meetings:
November 18, 2003
Oakley, CA		 Meeting agenda (PDF format)
Meeting minutes (PDF format)
June 30, 2004
Concord, CA		 Meeting agenda (PDF format)
Meeting minutes (PDF format)
December 9, 2004
Oakley, CA		 Meeting agenda (Microsoft Word)
Meeting minutes (Microsoft Word)

Environmental Impact Report Scoping Hearing
and
Restoration Committee Meeting

April 5, 2006
Oakley, CA

 Meeting agenda (Microsoft Word)
Scoping hearing notice (PDF format)
Meeting presentation (PDF format)


Adaptive Management Working Group

The Adaptive Management Working Group (AMWG) is an interdisciplinary team of nine technical experts that help the project management team and its consultants identify key science questions to be addressed within the Dutch Slough project's goals and objectives. These questions are the foundation of the active adaptive management plan. The AMWG reviews and helps refine the project's conceptual model, its hypotheses and the proposed management actions. The AMWG provides technical assistance to the project management team to help develop the adaptive management plan for the restoration, specifically helping design the implementation approach and ensuring that the implementation and monitoring will result in statistically valid testing of hypotheses.

Adaptive Management Working Group meetings:
December 18, 2003
Oakley, CA		 Agenda (PDF format)
Meeting summary (PDF format)
April 8, 2004
Davis, CA		 Agenda (PDF format)
Meeting summary (PDF format)
May 26, 2004
Oakland, CA		 Agenda (PDF format)
Meeting summary (PDF format)
Figures (PDF format)
October 22, 2004
Berkeley, CA		 Agenda (PDF format)
Meeting minutes (PDF format)
May 10, 2005
Berkeley, CA		 Agenda (PDF format)
Meeting minutes (PDF format)
October 17, 2005
Oakland, CA		 Agenda (PDF format)
Meeting summary (PDF format)

Meeting information for AMWG members


Public Access Planning and Meetings

The Conservancy and CALFED awarded grant funds to the City of Oakley to develop a public access master plan for the Dutch Slough Restoration Site and the adjacent 55-acre community park site.

On March 28, 2005 the Oakley City Council contracted 2M Associates to develop the public access and community park master plan.

During the Summer and Fall of 2005 the City of Oakley invited citizens to identify recreation and conservation elements to include in the 55-acre community park. In February 2006, 2M Associates released the Dutch Slough Community Park and Public Access Conceptual Master Plan. The City of Oakley approved the draft conceptual plan in August 2006.

Please e-mail or call Daniel Yore, Parks and Landscape Supervisor, yore@ci.oakley.ca.us or 925-625-7015, if you have any questions or comments on the Master Plan.

Environmental Review

On November 20, 2008, the California Department of Water Resources, as the Lead Agency, released the Draft Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIR) for the Dutch Slough Tidal Marsh Restoration Project. The Draft EIR is available on the internet at:

http://www.water.ca.gov/floodmgmt/dsmo/ecb/maep/dutchslough/deir/

There will be a 60-day comment period that will close on January 19, 2009. Please provide your written comments to:
Patty Quickert
DWR Delta-Suisun Marsh Office
1416 9th Street Room 1623
Sacramento, CA 95814

A public meeting will be held to allow public comment on the Draft EIR:
December 11, 2008 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Oakley City Hall Council Chambers
3231 Main Street
Oakley

DWR put out a Notice of Preparation of Draft Environmental Impact Report on March 24, 2006. A formal scoping hearing, designed to solicit public comment on the proposed action and alternatives, was held on April 5, 2006.


Hands-on Restoration Activities

In spring 2006, local community members including the Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, worked with The Watershed Nursery to clear invasive vegetation and plant over 7 species and 250 freshwater tidal marsh plants at the mouth of Marsh Creek adjacent to the Dutch Slough Wetland Restoration Project site.

Planting native plants along Marsh Creek will restore native habitat for juvenile Delta smelt, Chinook salmon and Sacramento spilttail.

Funding for the project was generously provided by Save The Bay in cooperation the NOAA Community Based Restoration Program.


Girl Scout planting native plant
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Dutch Slough Public Events

Dutch Slough Day, Sunday, May 1, 2005
The public was invited to visit the Dutch Slough Wetland Restoration Project site before it is open to the public and learn about the latest plans for wetland restoration and public access to the Delta shoreline. Dutch Slough Day was part of 2005 Oakley Science Week.

Activities included bird watching walks, water quality monitoring with Freedom High School chemistry students, guided tours of the property, and canoe trips led by trained staff from Save The Bay. See pictures from the event below:


Dutch Slough Levee Hike


Canoeing Emerson Slough

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