Creek Restoration Complete! 

After many years of planning and design, three major restoration projects on Carpinteria Creek are complete, connecting several miles of stream habitat for steelhead trout migration.  Construction crews have removed old concrete slab creek crossings (also called “Arizona crossings”) at the Bliss Project, Cate School Project, and Raya Project.   The creek channels have been restored to a more natural flow pattern.  

South Coast Habitat Restoration, a local non-profit organization, has led these efforts, along with their parent organization (Earth Island Institute), local partners, and citizen volunteers.  Many thanks to all who have contributed!
 

                                                                  
             

The people of Carpinteria Valley share a strong sense of environmental stewardship. We've proven our ability to make things happen by our efforts to restore Carpinteria Salt Marsh and to preserve Carpinteria Bluffs. By working together to achieve local solutions, we can also help bring back the steelhead to Carpinteria Creek. It takes an involved and aware community to create a healthy watershed--and Carpinteria Creek deserves the very best of us all. The Carpinteria Creek Watershed Coalition have restoration projects underway that will improve the overall quality of the watershed for native plants, local people and California's wildlife. We invite you to join us.

See Steelhead Swim in Mission Creek Click on the photo at left to see video footage taken by David Pritchett of the Southern California Steelhead Coalition in January 2005! In seven of the last eight years steelhead have attempted to migrate up Mission Creek to historic spawning grounds beyond the channelized section in downtown Santa Barbara. This fact, and video footage, highlight the important job we all have to help restore our local watersheds for this iconic species!

Creation of this website was funded in part by a grant from the County of Santa Barbara's Coastal Resource Enhancement Fund (CREF) program, and has continued funding through the Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Restoration Program. 

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