Table 3

Summary of Suggested Remedial Actions for Stressors

Functional requirement

Stressors

Suggested actions

Priority

sufficient flow

1

depressed groundwater

1

educate decision makers

low

2

lack of flow from effluent sources

2

participate in discharge permitting

med

3

change in PCWA flows

3

work to satisfy mutual interests

med

no migration barriers

4

utility crossings, bridge sills, diversion dams, unscreened diversions

4a

work with DWR Fish Passage Improvement Program

high

4b

educate decision makers

high

4c

educate landowners

high

5

excessive sediment

5

streambank stabilization, revegetation

high

Channel Complexity- instream-cobble, boulders, undercut banks, pools riparian-large woody debris, streamside vegetation, good channel morphology

6

sedimentation from in channel and upland erosion

6

streambank stabilization, revegetation, instream complexity projects, recreate three stage channel

high

7

flood control maintenance

7

educate decision makers

med

8

poor stormwater management

8

design retrofit for drainage from developed areas to mimic natural hydrology

med

9

homeowner maintenance, grazing

9

educate landowners

high

appropriate temperature

10

inadequate vegetation, lack of substrate complexity, inadequate flow, impoundments, effluent

10

report results of temperature assessments

high

10a

institute actions 1,2,3

med

10b

institute action 6

high

good water quality

11

cumulative contamination from watershed sources

11

report results of water quality assessments

med

12

poor stormwater management

12

retrofit stormwater quality systems

med

13

homeowner maintenance

13

educate homeowners

med

14

industrial discharge

14

report polluted discharge

low