Devine Bank Stabilization Project
CCWG partnered with the Fish and Wildlife Partners Program in 2008 to do a bank stabilization project on Middle Fork Cottonwood Creek and restore the riparian zone.
The project which was completed in the fall of 2009 was engineered by Tehama Environmental Solutions. A dozer was brought in from West Valley Sand and Gravel to do the dirt work, shaving the bank to a 2:1 slope. Existing stream barbs from an earlier NRCS project were kept as they were doing a good job deflecting energy away from the eroding bank.
Once the bank was shaved and a berm was created at the top, Tehama Environmental Solutions went in and decided the placement of the native plant species. Plant species were purchased from Floral Native Nursery in Chico, CA. Volunteers, hand crews and CCWG staff planted the species according to the plan and later a native grass seed mix was scattered on the south facing slope to ensure the soil would hold. A sprinkler system was installed by Alsco, Inc. (Red Bluff, CA) and will be used to water the slope for three years. Further work was completed by Land Restoration Inc. to make sure the area was free of weeds, which would allow plants a higher survival rate, and to do a fall replanting after the wet season had begun. A fence was put up by Accent Fence Company (Anderson, CA) to keep future grazing cattle from trampling the rehabbed bank area.
The project which was completed in the fall of 2009 was engineered by Tehama Environmental Solutions. A dozer was brought in from West Valley Sand and Gravel to do the dirt work, shaving the bank to a 2:1 slope. Existing stream barbs from an earlier NRCS project were kept as they were doing a good job deflecting energy away from the eroding bank.
Once the bank was shaved and a berm was created at the top, Tehama Environmental Solutions went in and decided the placement of the native plant species. Plant species were purchased from Floral Native Nursery in Chico, CA. Volunteers, hand crews and CCWG staff planted the species according to the plan and later a native grass seed mix was scattered on the south facing slope to ensure the soil would hold. A sprinkler system was installed by Alsco, Inc. (Red Bluff, CA) and will be used to water the slope for three years. Further work was completed by Land Restoration Inc. to make sure the area was free of weeds, which would allow plants a higher survival rate, and to do a fall replanting after the wet season had begun. A fence was put up by Accent Fence Company (Anderson, CA) to keep future grazing cattle from trampling the rehabbed bank area.
