Petaluma River O&M

PETALUMA RIVER
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE


PROJECT LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION

The Petaluma River is located on San Pablo Bay in Sonoma and Marin Counties, California. Operations and Maintenance (O&M) provides for dredging of a channel 200 feet wide to a depth of -8 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) across the flats in San Pablo Bay to the mouth of the river (Across-the-Flats Channel), 100 feet wide and -8 feet MLLW thereafter to Western Avenue in Petaluma (River Channel), and a turning basin 300 to 400 feet wide to -8 feet MLLW. The Non-Federal Sponsor (NFS), City of Petaluma, is responsible for providing a suitable upland placement site.

 

TOTAL FUNDING:

 

TOTAL COST:

 N/A

FEDERAL COST:

 N/A

NON-FEDERAL COST:

 N/A

 

 

FISCAL YEAR 2023 ALLOCATION

$       1,000

FY 2024 BUDGET:

$7,662,000

COST TO COMPLETE:

 N/A

 

FY23 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • No maintenance dredging was planned or occurred, therefore, there were no contracted activities or PED.  Minor admin/reporting, and survey work was done.

FY24 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • BUDDI completed to cost share the incremental increased cost of beneficial use placement for dredged material from the project with State Coastal Conservancy.
  • Perform maintenance dredging of the authorized channel with a contract dredge and with placement at a beneficial use site.

ISSUES AND OTHER INFORMATION

  • The City of Petaluma is the NFS.
  • The Across-the-Flats Channel maintenance dredging cycle is every three years.  The last time the Across-the-Flats Channel was dredged was in FY 2020
  • The River Channel maintenance dredging cycle is every four years.  The last time the River Channel was dredged was in FY 2020.

CONGRESSIONAL INTEREST

  • 2nd District, Rep. Jared Huffman

POINT OF CONTACT

  • Deputy for Project Management, Thomas R. Williams, 415-503-6560

Updated on 29 February 2024

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