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Oakland Harbor & Sonoma Baylands

OAKLAND HARBOR AND SONOMA BAYLANDS

OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

PROJECT LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION

Oakland Harbor is located in Alameda County, California. The project provides for inspection and maintenance of parallel rubble-mound jetties that form the entrance to Oakland Inner Harbor and annual maintenance dredging of the Oakland Inner and Outer Harbors to a depth of 50 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW). It also provides for payment to Alameda County for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of the Fruitvale Avenue Railroad Bridge.

The O&M budget for the Sonoma Baylands Wetlands Demonstration Project is included in the O&M budget for Oakland Harbor. The Sonoma Baylands project restored tidal salt marsh habitat on a 348-acre diked hayfield on the northern shoreline of San Pablo Bay utilizing 1.7 million cubic yards of suitable dredged material from the 1998 deepening of Oakland Harbor to a depth of 42 feet MLLW. After the dredged material was consolidated, tidal action was reintroduced to create a mature salt marsh.

TOTAL FUNDING

TOTAL COST	N/A
FEDERAL COST	N/A
NON-FEDERAL COST	N/A

TOTAL FEDERAL COST THROUGH FY 2016	$15,000,000
ARRA FUNDING	$ 5,516,400
FY 2017 BUDGET	$17,155,000
COST TO COMPLETE	N/A

FY 16 and FY 17 accomplishments (based on the availability of funds)

Maintenance dredging of the Inner and Outer Harbors to a depth of 50 Feet MLLW.
Management of the Oakland Inner Harbor Tidal Canal.
O&M of the Fruitvale Avenue Railroad Bridge.
Environmental clean-up of the Nelson Marine site.
Monitoring at both the San Francisco Deep Ocean Disposal Site (SF-DODS) and Sonoma Baylands.

ISSUES AND OTHER INFORMATION

The Port of Oakland is the Non-Federal Sponsor (NFS).
This project received funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Title IV, Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115, Feb. 17, 2009.
Deepening the Oakland Inner and Outer Harbors to a depth of 42 feet MLLW was completed in July 1998, and deepening to a depth of 50 feet MLLW was completed in January 2010. The primary placement location (Federal Standard or Base Plan) for maintenance material is the SF-DODS, which is located 60 miles offshore.
From 2008 until 2010, dredged material was placed at the Hamilton Wetlands Restoration Project site, which is no longer accepting material. In 2011, dredged material placement switched to the Montezuma Wetlands Restoration Project site as a result of a Value Engineering Cost Proposal. Dredged material from the FY 2013 episode was placed at SF-DODS, Montezuma Wetlands and the in-bay disposal site, SF-11. For FY 2014 dredging episode was beneficially reused at that site.
Monitoring and remediation of Sonoma Baylands ecological features is cost-shared (75% Federal, 25% non-Federal).
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2007 directed the Corps to perform a Comprehensive Report on the Fruitvale Avenue Railroad Bridge.
The U.S. Coast Guard has requested maintenance dredging be performed in the Inner Harbor from the end of the -50 ft. project up to their dock at Coast Guard Island because cutter operations are being affected by shoaling and lack of maintenance dredging in this area.
Section 2102 (b) of the Water Resource Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) OF 2014 revised the cost share threshold from -45 feet MLLW to -50 feet MLLW.

CONGRESSIONAL INTEREST