Following a large water pipe rupture at the Colgate Power Plant which led to hundreds and possibly thousands of salmon killed in lower Yuba River, Yuba Water Agency on Tuesday announced the $300,000 grant to a local conservation group for its fish restoration project, while turning down a second bid for a separate fish habitat effort.
The awarded Upper Long Bar Restoration Project was proposed by the South Yuba River Citizens League to create juvenile salmon rearing habitat on the lower Yuba River and approved in January for about $1.8 million in grant funding by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Tuesday’s grant is part of that larger restoration package, under which the Yuba Water Agency will contribute up to $300,000 in matching funds…