New Fish Screens at Fish Passage

Last week several members of our Fish Passage project took a trip to Sacramento to examine the project’s fish screens designed by Intake Screen Inc. (ISI). Next week, our team will be installing four of these fish screens at Fish Passage Facilities located in Alameda Creek.

Pictured below is one of the four new fish screens.



Here is Yen Ng, one of our project engineer’s; looking through what is called an internal cylinder brush. The internal cylinder brush is a key component of the fish screen.



Below is a diagram of a fish screen and its significant components.


Image courtesy of http://intakescreensinc.com/

The goal of the Fish Passage Project is to provide for safe passage of fish around the Alameda Creek Diversion Dam to support the restoration of Steelhead trout to the Alameda Creek Watershed. The project is part of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s $4.8 billion Water System Improvement Project (WSIP) to repair, and seismically upgrade portion of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System.

Construction is expected to be completed in fall 2018.

See you around the valley!