Standard Guidance (simplified!)

All Placer Activities:

• Protect streamside vegetation.
• Use existing roads and don't drive right up to the next of the river.
• Fill in your holes when you are done.
• Clean up your trash when you leave.
• Don't run muddy water right back into the river
• Don't fill gas tanks next to the water.
• Keep your work area neat and in order.
• Don't collect or disturb historic or archaeological resources.
• Don't camp for more than 14 days in any 45 day period
• At a minimum carry a portable toilet and fire pan.

 Notice level operations:

• No notice level operations are authorized to help protect brown trout during the fish spawning period (October 1 to March 31).
• Operations shall not take place within 200 feet of a public water supply intake, fish hatchery intake, irrigation diversion structure, bridge support, developed recreational sites, or boat ramp.

High Banking

• A settling pond or area that prevents direct return of processed water to the river or stream is required for all high banking activities.
• Disturbance or undercutting of trees is not authorized.

 Suction Dredging

• Materials too large in size to be moved by hand or hand held implements shall remain undisturbed.
• Anchorage systems for suction dredging operations shall not span the stream or interfere with the passage of watercraft.
• Gasoline engines must be filled in a manner that prevents spills into the river and fuel stored at least 100 feet from the river.

 Small Combo

• Activity restricted to wet sand at the shoreline, below high water mark.
• All notice level, high-banking, and suction dredging stipulations apply.