Sweep the litter off the Eel River gravel bars.

The Eel River drops its winter flood trash on the gravel bars beside Fortuna (bottles, foam, tires, and camp debris) and the next high water carries it on toward the salmon reaches and the sea. Sweeping the dry bars in the low-water months takes that load out of the river system for good.

Where

Public river access, Eel River bar near Riverwalk Drive, Fortuna, CA 95540 · Open the map

Pay

$180 proposed

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Proof

Before/after bar photos with haul tally

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-19

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Access the bar from the public river access during low water and photograph litter concentrations.
2. Collect litter from the dry gravel only, using gloves and grabbers; roll tires clear for pickup.
3. Bag and tally items, staging heavy finds at the access point.
4. Haul bags and tires to the transfer station or arranged pickup.
5. Photograph the cleared bar and the staged haul with the tally.

What counts as done

• Before photos of littered bar with GPS and date
• After photos of the cleared area
• Photo of staged haul with bag and tire count

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Watershed Health. A watershed is everything the land pours into a stream, and the stream keeps the record. The EPA's bioassessment method reads that record through the small creatures living in the gravel: mayflies and caddisflies mean clean water, only worms and midges mean trouble. Mastery looks like a person who can wade one riffle with a net and tell you how the whole valley is doing. That skill is built sample by sample. This packet is one of them: one site, one careful count, one entry in the long record of a stream.