PG&E DeSabla-Centerville Relicensing

Pacific Gas and Electric's License application document will be online here soon. Follow the progress and get involved in making this project more environmentally friendly. Removing 60% of the creek flow in critical Spring Run Salmon habitat for a small amount of electricity makes no sense. Let Butte Creek Flow!  PGE has set up a website for the relicensing process. It can be accessed at by using this link: DeSabla-Centerville Relicensing

Comments submitted by Feb. 1, 2005 for the Scoping Document 1, Pre-application Document and Study Plans:

• Friends of Butte Creek
• NOAA Fisheries
• State Water Resources Control Board
• Chico Paddleheads
• Sacramento River Preservation Trust
• Friends of the River 
• National Park Service
• California Department of Fish and Game
• US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Pacific Gas and Electric

Other Comments

• FBC Comments on the FERC Approved Study Plans
• FBC Comments on the Supplemental Initial Study Report
• CSPA, FBC, FOR Comments on the Draft Initial License Application

Important California Department of Fish and Game References for the DeSabla Centerville Project

• Department of Fish and Game 1995-98 Spring Run Salmon Report
• Department of Fish and Game Upper Butte Creek Barrier Assessment 2000
• Butte and Big Chico Creeks Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Life History Investigation 2004-2005
• Department of Fish and Game Pre-Spawn Mortality 2004
• Department of Fish and Game Pre-Spawn Mortality 2005 (includes information from 2002-2003

General References

• Hendricks Canal Fish Rescue 2005
• Hendricks Canal Fish Rescue 2007
• Lower Centerville Fish Rescue January 18, 2008
• NOAA Fisheries Preliminary Biological Opinion

These are some of the latest PG&E relicensing documents, as of September 2007:

• DeSabla Centerville Economics
• Assessment of Screens
• Ladders and Screen Costs PGE
• Ladders and Screen Costs California Department of Fish and Game
• Habitat Suitability Workshop
• Salmon Steelhead Habitat Study
• Water Temperature Model

Updated Study Reports - January 2008

• Updated Study Reports
• Fish Population Data Sheets
• Fish survey Photos
• Letter and Fish Data
• Historic Properties Management Plan

Recent Comments on the Final License Appllication - April 2008

• State Water Resources Control Board
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• U.S. Forest Service
• California Department of Fish and Game
• California Sportfishing Protection Alliance

Other References 2008

• Rich and Associates Water Temperature Study on Butte Creek 2007
• Rich Appendix A
• Rich Appendix B
• Calaveras River Spawning Gravel Assessment - Stillwater Sciences ( Read the Spawning Habitat Limitation Modeling through to the Recommendations - page 11-14)
• 2007 Butte Creek Spring Run Chinook Population Data (DFG) and Downstream Migration Percentage (FBC)
• Steelhead Restoration and Management Plan for California (Butte Creek is listed on page 172-Good reading!)