School Park Preserve, Lincoln Creek Restoration
Auburn, CA

Working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Placer Land Trust and the City of Auburn through Environcon, Inc., Hanford ARC is currently under contract to install Vegetated Soil Lifts (VSLs) along the banks of the recently reopened Lincoln Creek.  The next phase of the project for Hanford includes hydroseeding, tree and shrub planting and two years of maintenance and monitoring.

Ocean View Park
Memorial Park and Ballfield
Albany, CA

Contracting with the City of Albany,  Hanford ARC is currently restoring two parks within just a few miles of each other.  Ocean View Park’s existing ballfield and play area is being upgraded and a previously unused area is being renovated into community gardens with ADA access.   A picnic area with BBQ’s, tables and benches and an extensive play structure will become the enhancing features of this park. 

Memorial Park’s group BBQ area and softball field are the focus of this renovation. Picnic tables, benches and BBQ’s as well as a newly sodded ball field, bleachers, fences and irrigation system are all being installed.  The park’s historical stone fireplace will also be re-installed after careful dismantling and structurally reengineering.   Hundreds of new trees and plants will complete the projects in November 2007.

Codornices Creek Fish Passage
Albany, CA

Under Contract with Urban Creeks Council, Hanford ARC is currently reconstructing a 200 foot section of Codornices Creek incorporating a series of pools and rock structures.  This work will open the stream for fish passage above the Albina Avenue Bridge. Large tree planting on the banks will complete this job .

Strawberry Point Wetland and Playfield
Mill Valley, CA

Mill Valley School District has contracted Hanford ARC to build this wetland designed by Brian Powell and Associates. The project increases the area of an existing tidal wetland while restoring a dormant area behind Strawberry Point Elementary School into a beautiful playfield.  The enhanced wetland will become an ‘outdoor classroom’ for the children of the school which has a naturalist on staff.

Coastal Watershed Restoration, Point Reyes National Seashore
Point Reyes, CA

Hanford ARC is currently under a two-year contract with the National Park Service to restore a variety of habitat types throughout Point Reyes National Seashore including stream work, frog ponds, tidal marsh restoration and dam removal.  The ultimate goal of this project is to open up more than 20 miles of fish passage for salmon and steelhead.  This year’s portion incorporates culvert removal with pre-cast bridge placement, at Estero Road, Mount Vision Road and Home Ranch. Culvert removal at Glenbrook including regrading 800 LF of stream and installing a series of log structures to allow fish passage.   Red Legged frog pond construction will be completed at Limantour this year as well.   In 2008 100 feet of the earth-bermed pedestrian walkway at Limantour Beach will be removed and replaced with a pedestrian bridge restoring a large area to tidal marsh.  The Muddy Hollow dam will be removed to restore a 5 acre lake to stream channel and tidal channel, riparian forest and tidal marsh.

Kimbro Pond Erosion Repair and Stabilization
Sunol, CA

This project, designed by the Alameda County NRCS for a private horse ranch is currently underway.  Hanford ARC has been contracted to retrofit the existing dam at this pond with a 24” drainage pipe, install a riprap plunge pool at the pipe outlet and place rock drop structures downstream of the outlet.  We will grade the abandoned spillway and gully and stabilize both with coir fabric for further erosion control.

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