Dredging project for San Rafael Creek from Army corps web site.

SAN RAFAEL CREEK (O&M)  
CALIFORNIA

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:  Provides for 7 and 4-year cycle maintenance dredging, respectively, for the Across the Flats Channel to -8 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) in San Francisco Bay to the mouth of San Rafael Creek; thence -6 feet MLLW for the Inner Canal Channel to the head of navigation at the Grand Street Bridge in the City of San Rafael.  The Across the Flats portion has always been authorized for unconfined in-Bay aquatic disposal at site SF-11 south of Alcatraz Island.  Originally the sponsor (City of San Rafael) provided an upland site for the Inner Canal portion of the project, but the site is no longer available, therefore, the sponsor pays for an additional cost differential for alternative disposal at SF-11.  The sponsor is obligated to provide an adequate upland disposal site for containment of material unsuitable for unconfined aquatic disposal, located in the upper Turning Basin.   Since the sponsor has been unable to provide such a site for recent past dredging episodes, this area was not dredged.

FISCAL YEAR 01 BUDGET:  $0

PRESENT STATUS:  Maintenance dredging of the Across the Flats Channel was last completed in November 1997 and the Inner Canal Channel in March 1992.  Sediment sampling and testing in the upper Turning Basin was performed in FY 98 to determine future upland disposal needs for this area.  This project is a shallow-draft, mainly light commercial and recreational channel.

FUTURE EFFORTS:  The Across the Flats Channel is scheduled for maintenance dredging in FY 04 and the Inner Canal Channel for FY 01.  The sponsor has expressed interest in the possibility of establishing a new upland disposal site under the federal cost-sharing provisions contained in the 1996 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).
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SRCanal Spoils

Beneficial Reuse

SRCanal

Site Flooding

Mouse-SMHM

Mixed Use

Kerner Blvd

Workplace Housing

Affordable ownership housing

School

Athletics

Play fields

ShorelinePark

Traffic

Pond

Levee

Environmental enhancement