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Documents from 2021 sampling of Codornices and Cerrito Creeks for environmental DNA, for CaleDNA project
- Final report of 2021 Environmental DNA sampling, Codornices and Cerrito Creeks (PDF)
- Spreadsheet of results of genetic sequencing by CaleDNA (PDF)
- Profiles of selected species (PDF)
Documents regarding flood risk and likely effects of sea-level rise in the Creekside Park area, El Cerrito
- FEMA flood zone map for Creekside Park area (PDF)
- October 2017 comments for proposed El Cerrito Parks Plan, see pp. 3-4 (PDF)
- Challenges and possibilities for Creekside Park area, for Public Works Director, Feb. 2018 (PDF)
- Challenges and possibilities for Creekside Park Area, for City Council, Mar. 2018 (PDF)
Some documents regarding Cerrito Creek at El Cerrito Plaza
- El Cerrito General Plan Policies re Creeks. (PDF)
- Zoning ordinance and map re Cerrito Creek adjacent to El Cerrito Plaza. (PDF)
Some background documents on Albany (and, for Cerrito Creek, El Cerrito) creek-related trail and bridge projects
The City of Albany is considering how to spend remaining funds earmarked for creeks and Albany Hill from Measure R, a 1998 levy that ends in 2019, when bonds it sold also mature. The money was to be spent 50% for Albany Hill, 25% for creeks, and 25% for ballfields. Nearly all the ballfield money has been spent. $600,000 remains for creeks. A much larger sum remains for Albany Hill, because the city never acquired the remaining 11 acres of privately owned open space on the hill -- the principal goal of the measure. Here you will find plans and other documents related to Albany Hill and Albany's creeks, back to the 1990s.
- 1991 Albany Hill Creekside Park Master Plan (PDF)
- Chart of goals of 1991 Albany Hill Creekside Park Master Plan (PDF)
- 1995 Joint Watershed Goals Statement, signed by Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Richmond, and UC Berkeley (PDF)
- El Cerrito General Plan Policies re Creeks. (PDF)
- Zoning ordinance and map re Cerrito Creek adjacent to El Cerrito Plaza. (PDF)
- Page references for documents related to Cerrito Creek bridges (PDF)
- 2004 Cerrito Creek Bay Trail Connector Feasibility Study (PDF)
- Albany Hill Creekside 2012 Master Plan
- Albany General Plan 2035 (2016), Chapter 6, Parks (PDF)
- Friends of Five Creeks Nov. 2, 2016, letter to Albany City Council re remaining Measure R funds for creeks (PDF)
Plans and Reports on Lower Codornices Creek
- 2018 documents setting up a $450,000 maintenance fund for Codornices Creek, San Pablo to UP tracks, to reimburse Albany, Berkeley, and UC Berkeley for maintenance and monitoring. This money comes from the forgotten escrow created in the "Purchase agreement in which Berkeley bought UC land S. of Codornices Creek...," below.
- 2000 Purchase agreement in which Berkeley bought UC land S. of Codornices Creek and W. of Fifth Street from UC Berkeley, including escrow of funds for Codornices improvements and maintenance.
- Friends of Five Creeks letters re restoration of Codornices Creek below San Pablo Avenue, 1998-2000.
- 2001 Draft restoration plan for restoration of lower Codornices Creek. (No final plan seems to have been written.)
- Grants for restoration/revitalization of Codornices Creek between San Pablo Avenue and Union Pacific Railroad Tracks.
- 2004 Environmental Impact Study for restoration of lower Codornices Creek from San Pablo to RR tracks.
- 2004 memorandum of understanding between Albany, Berkeley, and UC Berkeley concerning maintenance and funding for Codornices Creek between San Pabloe Avenue and RR tracks.
- Documents from application to restore Codornices Creek from San Pablo Avenue to RR tracks, 2004.
- Natl. Marine Fisheries Service Biological Opinion re restoring Codornices Creek from San Pablo Avenue to RR tracks, 2004.
- Certification approving restoring Codornices Creek from San Pablo Avenue to RR tracks, 2004.
- 2004 Codornices Creek Watershed Action Plan (CCWRAP) plan, focused on salmonid restoration.
- Report on numbers of trout removed from Codornices Creek just before dewatering for 2004-5 project
- Agreements with US Postal Service re Codornices restoration and trail, Sixth to Eighth Streets.
- 2005 Urban Creeks Council conceptual plan for improving fish passage, San Pablo to Monterey Ave.
- Coastal Conservancy grant to City of Albany for Codornices restoration, Fifth to Eighth Streets
- Coastal Conservancy grant to Codornices Creek Watershed Council for native plantings, signage, and seating on Codornices, Fifth to Eighth Streets
- Water Quality Control Board documents requiring planting changes after Phase III restoration.
Documents related to monitoring on lower Codornices Creek
- 2006 monitoring plan for lower Codornices Creek restorations
- 2008 monitoring report on Codornices Creek restorations (for CCWRAP).
- 2009 monitoring report on Codornices Creek restorations (by Roger Leventhal, Farwest Engineering)
- 2011 monitoring report on lower Codornices Creek restorations
- 2012 monitoring report on lower Codornices Creek restorations
- 2012 early assessment of success of plantings on Codornices Creek between 6th and 8th Street, with plant list.
- 2013 monitoring report on lower Codornices Creek restorations
- 2014 monitoring report on lower Codornices Creek restorations
- 2015 monitoring report on lower Codornices Creek Restorations
- 2016 monitoring report on lower Codornices Creek Restorations.
- 2019 monitoring report on lower Codornices Creek Restorations
- 2020 monitoring report on lower Codornices Creek Restorations
- Results of 2017 monitoring of aquatic macroinvertebrates on Codornices, San Leandro, and Sinbad Creeks.
- Results comparing 2018 and 2019 monitoring of aquatic macroinvertebrates in lower Codornices Creek (2019 following major fish kill0.
- Cross sections of stream bed between Sixth and Eighth, showing changes in channel form, such as steepening and incision, following construction of the new channel.
Documents related to April 3, 2019, recycling-truck fire and resulting fish kill in Codornices Creek
- Berkeley City Manager's April 24 memo regarding this fire, with Friends of Five Creeks' comments..
- Results comparing 2018 and 2019 monitoring of aquatic macroinvertebrates in lower Codornices Creek.
Documents on future projects: Planned creekside trail from 10th to 8th and planned restoration of Codornices Creek west of Kains Ave.
- 2014 plans and cost estimates for creekside trail from 8th to 10th Streets
- 2009 plan for Codornices below Kains, paid for by City of Albany
- Grant application for Restoration of Codornices Creek west of Kains (approved 2016 by Department of Water Resources for $400,000)
These reports and many others by students in Restoration of Rivers and Streams, a course taught since 1992 at the University of California Berkeley's Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Reports from 2003 on, including many on other local creeks, all presented at the annual Berkeley River Restoration Symposium, can be found here.
Sincere thanks to Professor Matt Kondolf and other instructors in this course for for their efforts in trying to evaluate results of restoration projects while teaching valuable professional skills.
- Post-project appraisal of Cerrito Creek at El Cerrito Plaza, 2005
- Post-project appraisal of Cerrito Creek at El Cerrito Plaza, 2011
- Restoration projects on Codornices Creek since the 1990s, with approximate costs and some analysis
- Post-project appraisal of Lower Codornices Creek, 2011
- Guidance for what volunteers can and cannot do along streams, from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.
- UC Berkeley Master's thesis on cost of regulation of small projects, presented at Restoration of Rivers and Streams symposium (see above).
- Thoughts on use of willows in streams in urban areas, by UC Berkeley Professors of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Matt Kondolf and Walter Hood"
- Short discussion of early history of East Bay creek restoration, by UC Berkeley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Louise Mozingo.
- Illustrated timeline and interpretation of early history of East Bay creek restoration (presentation for a class at MIT, 23 MB)
- 1982 research paper by UC Berkeley student Allison Turner on changes to the Berkeley shoreline, with graphic showing dates of landfill, written for Professor of Geology Doris Sloan.
- 2002 Balance Hydrologics study on feasibility of increasing size of salt marsh south of Buchanan (mouth of Codornices and Village Creeks)
- 2004 Balance Hydrologics study on possible "daylighting" of mouth of Schoolhouse Creek in Eastshore State Park