TVFF Stream Keepers Team Supporting Alameda Creek Alliance

Please help us by becoming a part of our Stream Keepers Team.  As a Stream Keeper, we will help monitor fish populations and stream habitat. We will monitor fish spawning and rearing areas, identify problems with fish passage, and document problems with water quality, pollution, dumping, poaching or habitat destruction. StreamKeepers can also be trained as docents to provide information to the public on fish and wildlife and natural values of the creek.

Alameda Creek is the third largest tributary to San Francisco Bay (after the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers). The Alameda Creek watershed is the geographic area drained by Alameda Creek and its tributaries, encompassing more than 680 square miles of the East Bay. The watershed ranges from streams draining the south slopes of Mount Diablo in the north, most creeks from Mount Hamilton in the south, and arroyos as far east as Altamont Pass.

After an absence of half a century, ocean-run steelhead trout will soon be able to return to Alameda Creek to mingle with remnant rainbow trout populations. Completion of a series of dam removal and fish passage projects, along with improved stream flows for cold-water fish and planned habitat restoration, will improve and restore habitat conditions for migratory fish. Steelhead trout and chinook salmon will soon be able to access up to twenty miles of spawning and rearing habitat in Alameda Creek and its tributaries.

Training dates will be coming soon.

Contact Greg Blandino, TVFF Conservation Director, for more information.