WEAVERVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, along with the Bureau of Land Management and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, will host a virtual public meeting on the Trinity River Restoration Program’s proposed Oregon Gulch channel rehabilitation project in Trinity County on November 5.
This project would construct a forced meander bend and rehabilitate floodplains on a section of the Trinity River at Oregon Gulch to increase salmon-and-steelhead habitat downstream of Lewison Dam.
The virtual public meeting will be held on Thursday, November 5, 2020, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. and can be accessed online via the event page: https://www.trrp.net/calendar/event/?id=11685.
The virtual meeting will include TRRP presentations and opportunities to ask questions and provide input. A public scoping notice for the project will be available on Oct. 22, 2020 here:https://www.trrp.net/restoration/channel-rehab/sites/oregon-gulch-channel-rehabilitation-page/.
Comments on the scoping notice are requested by close of business Nov. 21, 2020. Email comments to fgutermuth@usbr.gov. Written comments postmarked by Nov. 21, 2020 may be mailed to Oregon Gulch Project Scoping, C/O Bureau of Reclamation, Trinity River Restoration Program, P.O. Box 1300, Weaverville, CA 96093.
For additional information, contact Brandt Gutermuth at fgutermuth@usbr.gov, 530-623-1806 or Kevin Held at kheld@usbr.gov, 530-623-1809 (TTY 800-877-8339).
Source: Bureau of Reclamation
