PETALUMA RIVER

OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

PROJECT LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION

The Petaluma River is located on San Pablo Bay in Sonoma and Marin Counties, California. Operations and Maintenance (O&M) provides for dredging of a channel 200 feet wide to a depth of 8 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) across the flats in San Pablo Bay to the mouth of the river (Across the Flats Channel), 100 feet wide to 8 feet MLLW thereafter to Western Avenue in Petaluma (River Channel), and a turning basin 300 to 400 feet wide to 8 feet MLLW. The Non-Federal Sponsor (NFS) is responsible for providing a suitable upland placement site.

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

• Complete Dredged Material Management Plan.
• Complete environmental coordination for next dredging episode.
• Conduct a condition survey of the channel and initiate environmental sampling and testing and preliminary engineering and design for maintenance dredging.
• Meet with the Non-Federal Sponsor (NFS).

ISSUES AND OTHER INFORMATION

• The City of Petaluma is the NFS.
• This project did not receive funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Title IV, Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115, Feb. 17, 2009.
• The Across the Flats Channel is on a three-year dredging cycle, and the River Channel is on a four-year dredging cycle.
• Both channels are long overdue for dredging, but unobligated carryover funds are insufficient to award a fully-funded maintenance dredging contract.

CONGRESSIONAL INTEREST

• 2^nd District, Rep. Jared Huffman

POINT OF CONTACT

• Deputy for Project Management, Arijs A. Rakstins, (415) 503-6720

Updated on 22 February 2016

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