Sunol Valley Fish Passage Project

HEAVY CIVIL CONSTRUCTION

Dec 5

Written by Catch Creative

The Project seeks to restore fish passage in Alameda Creek by rerouting the existing gas transmission pipe line, fish barrier removal, restoring creek hydrology through strategic grading operations, and install native plant seeds and stakes. This project also required a robust creek water bypass system and extensive biological protections for the duration of the grading operations.

Client: CAltrout

Location: Sunol, Alameda County

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONs: PG&E, SFPUC

Date of start: JULY 2025

date of completion: DECEMBER 2025

GPS COORDINATES: 37.569140, -121.872996

FEATURED PRESS COVERAGE

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Project opens 40-mile stretch of Bay Area waterway to endangered fish

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ABC 7 NEWS - If you're a steelhead trout wanting to start a family, it's a long swim from San Francisco Bay to the sheltered breeding grounds of Alameda Creek. But now, for the first time in nearly three decades, that winding 40-mile path from Union City to the rolling foothills of Sunol is finally flowing free.

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Chinook salmon are populating farther up a Bay Area creek for the first time in decades

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SF GATE - Fish biologists and environmental consultants documented two Chinook salmon in the upper Alameda Creek watershed on Nov. 19, nonprofit California Trout announced on Tuesday. Earlier that week, volunteers photographed almost a dozen of the fish in lower Niles Canyon, the Alameda Creek Alliance wrote in a Nov. 18 news release.

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CalTrout and PG&E Complete Bay Area Fish Passage Project, Reopening Alameda Creek to Migrating Salmon

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CALTROUT - Earlier this month, California Trout (CalTrout) and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) wrapped up construction on a project that remediated the last unnatural barrier to fish passage on mainstem Alameda Creek, the largest local tributary to the San Francisco Bay.

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