Round Valley County Water District helps Round Valley residents restore and maintain stream health. It is also a flood control district, assisting residents in the management of flood and stream bank erosion risks in the Round Valley area.

Town Creek Bioengineering and Education Project

Round Valley County Water District launched the Town Creek Bioengineering and Education Project in the spring of 2025. Funded by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Cannabis Restoration Grant Program, the project enhances native stream and riparian habitat, establishes roughly 700 linear feet of willows and a cottonwood gallery forest, and improves stream structure, including improved spawning gravels, a central channel and pooling in what is currently a hot flat gravel bar. The project further supports habitat enhancement and remediation through school and community education on environmental issues, including habitat limitations, human impacts on fish and wildlife, and how different cannabis cultivation practices affect ecological values.

The stream restoration project is creating and enhancing native habitat for anadromous fish and other native species by establishing a riparian corridor and improved channel conditions. New willow and cottonwoods provide partial shade to the riparian corridor, allowing other native plants to colonize naturally or be planted by students. Willow baffles slow velocity along the bank, reducing bank erosion, causing fine sediment and sand to accrete between the baffles, and allowing more willows and other trees and shrubs to colonize the area, thereby expanding the newly established riparian habitat.

Now that bioengineering implementation is complete, grant funding is supporting future habitat enhancement and remediation through environmental and restoration education in local schools, research into local historical and ongoing environmental challenges, multifaceted media presentations, and public outreach and education events.