Island Ponds Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting, Year 4 - 2009

The Santa Clara Valley Water District (District) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) implemented the Island Ponds Restoration Project to fulfill two goals:

1. to initiate ecological restoration activities as described in the South Bay Salt Pond Initial Stewardship Plan (ISP), and
2. to satisfy the tidal marsh mitigation needs of both the Refuge for the ISP, and the District for the Stream Maintenance Program and the Lower Guadalupe River Project.