Water Quality and Stream Habitat Protection Manual
The purpose of this manual is to provide a user-friendly, fish-friendly guide for County road maintenance staff as part of each county’s primary mission to provide a safe and open road system for the traveling public. The manual is intended to also be part of an evolving, proactive process by the counties of the northwestern region of California – Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Siskiyou, and Trinity – to address their mutual needs as part of the Five County Salmon Conservation Program.
As a group and individually, the counties will continue to compile and recommend the best available management practices for protecting local water quality and stream habitat while maintaining county roads and maintenance facilities. Each of the county public works /road/transportation departments already performs many preventative and remedial practices, but none had available a useful written compilation for use by their employees. These and other beneficial practices can now be shared through the manual, to be used as a daily reference for standard operating procedures and as a training tool by county road managers, engineers, supervisors, and crews