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There are fish in Lincoln?

"JohnDF" wrote: There are fish in Lincoln?

Yes! And apparently they can climb ladders, too! 😲

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Circus fish? Climbing ladders is tough for dogs, much less fish...

"Justin" wrote: Time for some water talk. 😉

Are you working on the fish ladder project at the Lincoln Gauging Station? I saw your name on one of the emails I received about this project.

Yup. I'm the PM. We "started" today. Not much of a start with all this rain, but the next few weeks are going to get pretty crazy. I've never worked on a project with so many permits. Your biologists are heavily involved too. I think they may be down your way calibrating their equipment this afternoon.

"TomD" wrote: [quote="JohnDF"]There are fish in Lincoln?

Yes! And apparently they can climb ladders, too! 😲

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The goal is to get the salmon and steelhead up toward Auburn. There's a ton of work to do, but this ladder is the first step. Pretty different from the type of stuff I normally do, but it's a pretty fun project.

Cool! I'll be stopping by periodically to try and figure out how much flow is coming down the ravine.



Our biologist were here for a while getting all the equipment calibrated. Now I need to recalibrate our lab guy, he's not used to a bunch of women hanging out in the lab. 😂 😂 😂 I need to get him refocused on work.

They're very popular around the construction site as well. :girly:

Out of the creek around Thanksgiving with any luck. So Justin...when you saw the "mud pit" did you have any doubts...I did. I can start sleeping again once this thing is over.

"Bender" wrote: So Justin...when you saw the "mud pit" did you have any doubts...I did.

I never had any doubts. It was quite impressive to see such a small stream opened up big enough to put that huge excavator in. 😎

The first pic is the mud pit. And, the second pic is what my guys saw when they were out there this weekend. Was it an offering to mother nature or something? They didn't see any contractors around. 😂







Doughnut and milk offering! :rasta:

"Justin" wrote:
Doughnut and milk offering! :rasta:

I couldn't believe they forgot their donuts when I saw them Sunday. I was more impressed that the homeless guys up the creek didn't steal them. Check it out in the next day or so. They're moving some serious rock in there! Looks way different than your picture.

I saw it with the walls in. How deep do they go?

I'll come check it out Monday to see the progress with the rock.

"Justin" wrote: I saw it with the walls in. How deep do they go?

The walls vary, but they're around 14 feet deep on the edges.

This project looks interesting to me. Is there a public site to peruse more information about it?

"Wh1t3Nukle" wrote: This project looks interesting to me. Is there a public site to peruse more information about it?

Sort of, but I know a guy that knows a guy that can give you a tour, or, for those that like that sort of thing, the drawing set is here:



http://nidwater.com/documents/projects/ ... %20Set.pdf



All of our environmental documents are on the website, but, they're pretty dry.

Nice thanks. I like such drawings.

In my prior life, I used to look at those a lot as well. Lots of projects all over NorCal.

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Here fishy fishy fishy. Nothing but the cleanup left!

Attached files

It worked...here fishy fishy fishy.



http://www.news10.net/news/article/2171 ... ish-ladder



KTVU in the Bay Area did a story (with video) on it as well. It's on their website but I can't figure out how to link directly to it. 😎 I've never talked to so many reporters in my life! I must not be a very good interview though...they used the pictures and info that I gave them but I didn't make my television debut.

This week they have been putting in hand rails around the gauging station......for the people...not the fish, and planting trees.

Now where is the dang water!!?? There's only about 5mgd going through right now. I need 3 times that, soon! :?

Oh and, we've actually seen salmon this past month while out doing our river checks. 😎 😎 😎 The water is so shallow at our monitoring stations, we could reach down and pet the fish as they swim by.

"Justin" wrote: This week they have been putting in hand rails around the gauging station......for the people...not the fish, and planting trees.
Now where is the dang water!!?? There's only about 5mgd going through right now. I need 3 times that, soon! :?

We have to plant trees out there for the next 4 years. 🙄 I'll start working on the water tonight and try to keep it up through the weekend. 😀

"Justin" wrote: The water is so shallow at our monitoring stations, we could reach down and pet the fish as they swim by.

Careful...that's a Federal offense. NMFS will be all over you!

Figures the Liberals would make petting fish a federal offense 😈

"JohnDF" wrote: Figures the Liberals would make petting fish a federal offense 😈

Get ready. CA now has a full liberal administration. Rest of comment deleted... 😤

"BKGM Jeepers" wrote: [quote="JohnDF"]Figures the Liberals would make petting fish a federal offense 😈

Get ready. CA now has a full liberal administration. Rest of comment deleted... 😤

I'll admit that I'm probably more liberal (or at least closer to the middle) than a lot of this group and even I'm scared to death of the current situation in the CA legislature.

"Bender" wrote: [quote="BKGM Jeepers"][quote="JohnDF"]Figures the Liberals would make petting fish a federal offense 😈

Get ready. CA now has a full liberal administration. Rest of comment deleted... 😤

I'll admit that I'm probably more liberal (or at least closer to the middle) than a lot of this group and even I'm scared to death of the current situation in the CA legislature.

Did you see the new peripheral canal budget proposal? 24 billion...