Restoration of the Knapp Unit of the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
This project was funded by the FWS Bay and Estuaries Program to model sedimentation, water movement and water quality during wetland restoration of a former salt evaporation pond transferred to the Refuge. A cooperative agreement was developed with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, to generalize the sedimentation and water flow model developed in the above project. We obtained original geographic and elevational information and the model conversion is ongoing. The generalized hydrodynamic model this project will develop will be used in other wetland restorations of the many salt evaporation ponds in San Francisco Bay by the Refuge, State, and private organizations.
