DWR Certifies Tide’s End Multibenefit Restoration Project Supplemental Environmental Impact Report

The California Department of Water Resources' Division of Multibenefit Initiatives has approved Alternative 2 ("Maximize Multibenefit Land Uses") as the Tide's End Multibenefit Restoration Project (Project) and certified a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR). The Final SEIR and Notice of Determination are available on CEQAnet: Tide's End Multibenefit Restoration Project (State Clearinghouse Number 2024070944).

The Project will restore and enhance tidal wetland and floodplain habitat, support multibenefit land uses (including managed wetlands and floodplain agriculture), and maintain or improve flood conveyance in the Yolo Bypass. Tidal inundation will be restored by hydrologically connecting the site to the Toe Drain via a series of berm openings, berm lowering, and channel excavation. The restored habitats would enhance aquatic production and export for food web support and would facilitate volitional fish passage of juvenile salmonids and other native fishes accessing the proposed Project area's floodplain during high-flow events. The Project's restoration design elements include tidal wetland, transition zone habitat, floodplain habitat, managed wetlands, managed floodplain agriculture, site revegetation (including riparian communities), access improvements, as well as irrigation and drainage improvements. Project construction is currently anticipated to take place in summer 2028.

Questions about the Project can be directed to DWR at: [email protected].