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Monday, 06 February 2012 00:00 |
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Stream Mechanics will hold The Natural Channel Design Review Checklist Workshop at the Hilton Charlotte Executive Park, Charlotte, North Carolina on May 1-4, 2012. This workshop teaches participants how to use the new 2011 Checklist and includes updated presentations, activities and new case studies. The workshop is perfect for anyone who is responsible for reviewing stream restoration projects. Designers and engineers responsible for sealing designs also find this course helpful. For more information, click here. |
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011 18:47 |
By Jeff Frantz - The Patriot-News - May 27, 2011
Streams and creeks are dynamic things. When big storms hit, such as the ones that have pounded the midstate for much of the year, streams and creeks can shift. Sometimes it’s dramatic. A flood in 2004 moved a branch of the Codorus Creek in York County more than 50 feet. So far, the area’s water watchers haven’t seen anything that severe, but the repeated flash floods have washed sediment into streams, reshaped banks and altered ecosystems. For full story, click here. |
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Monday, 26 September 2011 00:00 |
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CA: Roseville Stream Restoration Helps Salmon
By Joe Rubin – Capital Public Radio – September 26, 2011
Salmon are famous for their drive to swim-up stream from the ocean to reproduce. This week, the city of Roseville and an organization called the Dry Creek Conservancy are teaming up to make one stream more salmon friendly. For full story, click here.
Follow the Silt: Stream restoration is big business By Cornelia Dean – New York Times – 2008
Dorothy J. Merritts, a geology professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., was not looking to turn hydrology on its ear when she started scouting possible research sites for her students a few years ago. […]“Those are not stream sediments,” he told her. “Those are pond sediments.” In short, the streamscape was not what she thought. For full story, click here. |
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Monday, 03 October 2011 00:00 |
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North Carolina State University’s Stream Restoration Program:
Stream restoration is the re-establishment of the general structure, function and self-sustaining behavior of the stream system that existed prior to disturbance. It is a holistic process that requires an understanding of all physical and biological components of the stream system and its watershed. Restoration includes a broad range of measures, including the removal of the watershed disturbances that are causing stream instability; installation of structures and planting of vegetation to protect stream banks and provide habitat; and the reshaping or replacement of unstable stream reaches into appropriately designed functional streams and associated floodplains, including other wetlands. For more information, click here.
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Monday, 28 March 2011 23:31 |
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StreamWatch Land Use Study
2011-2004. A Virginia-based organization has released a series of reports on streams and land use. Beginning in spring 2007, StreamWatch set out to study relationships between land use, stream habitat, and stream biology in the Rivanna River basin. For more than two years, they collected stream organisms and habitat data at 51 sites. StreamWatch compared these data with land use. For their findings and reports, click here.
Pocket Guide to Eastern Streams (8/11)
Model Ordinances for Regulating Wetlands and Riparian Habitats/Stream Buffers
by Jon Kusler, Esq., ASWM (12/09)
The goal of this paper is to help communities protect and restore vulnerable wetlands and related riparian ecosystems by adopting or upgrading regulations. a
To dowload this paper in PDF, click here.
New Handbook Helps Local Governments Protect Streams
EPA Region 3 Envirobytes, 10/18/02. The University of Virginia's Institute for Environmental Negotiation has produced a new book, “A Stream Corridor Protection Strategy for Local Governments.” The handbook is designed to help implement many facets of the Chesapeake 2000 agreement. In particular, the handbook aims to protect forested stream buffers and development of local watershed plans. It describes how to devise an effective stream protection strategy, provide tools such as the use of zoning to protect local streams, give case studies of successful projects and how to engage the local community.
To download handbook, click here or to view in PDF format, click here. Stream Restoration: A Natural Channel Design Handbook
by the NC State University – Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources – 2003 |
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