RARAFAEL MALDONADO / NEWS-PRESS

Crews are nearly finished installing a two-lane bridge over El Capitan Creek to replace a nearby cement crossing that blocks the pathway for steelhead to and from the ocean.

 

Located on Calle Real just off the El Capitan Beach exit from Highway 101, the $400,000 bridge is financed largely by a grant applied for jointly by the Department of Fish and Game, Santa Barbara County Land Trust and the nearby El Capitan Canyon resort .

 

The bridge should be finished in "the next couple of weeks," said Larry Callahan, co-owner of the resort.

 

"It's an effort to introduce the steelhead into the coast," he said. "It's a real positive thing."

 

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