Roy’s Pools Fish Passage and Floodplain Restoration Project

A coho salmon jumps through Roy’s Pools right after it was constructed. | Photo by Reuven Walder

The Roy’s Pools design ultimately leaked and didn’t hold water. | Photo by SPAWN

In a collaborative effort beginning in 2012 with the Lee Family, the previous owners of the former San Geronimo golf course, SPAWN secured grant funds to design a functional restoration of the creek channel through the Roy’s Pools reach, where a natural channel would replace the metal and concrete structures.

In 2012, SPAWN began the design process and hosted community meetings where neighbors gave input on the project and toured the site with the engineering team. Although this is a creek channel restoration project at the former golf course property, this project is not a Trust for Public Land project and is not related to the visioning process that the Trust for Public Land and Trout Unlimited are currently conducting. This project was developed several years prior to the Trust for Public Land taking ownership of the property.

This project was funded by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, NOAA Restoration Center, and Turtle Island Restoration Network. Project engineering and design was done by Environmental Science Associates, and project construction was done by Hanford ARC and SPAWN. Revegetation, site maintenance, and restoration monitoring is ongoing by SPAWN.