Download or read book Protection and Restoration of Urban and Rural Streams written by Michael L. Clar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains 48 papers presented at an international symposium on the restoration and protection of streams at the 2003 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23-26, 2003.
Download or read book Protection and Restoration of Streams 2003 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protection and Restoration of Urban and Rural Streams written by Michael L. Clar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains 48 papers presented at an international symposium on the restoration and protection of streams at the 2003 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23-26, 2003.
Download or read book Effects of urban development on stream ecosystems in nine metropolitan study areas across the United States written by James F. Coles and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stream Corridor Restoration written by and published by National Technical Info Svc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is a cooperative effort among fifteen Federal agencies and partners to produce a common reference on stream corridor restoration. It responds to a growing national and international interest in restoring stream corridors.
Download or read book Urban Stream Restoration Program written by California. Urban Stream Restoration Program and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watershed Hydrology written by Vijay P. Singh and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wetland Ecosystems written by William J. Mitsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New focused text introduces readers to wetland ecosystems and systems approaches to studying wetlands With its comprehensive coverage of wetland science, management, and restoration, Mitsch and Gosselink's Wetlands has been the premier reference on wetlands for more than two decades. Now, the coverage of specific wetland ecosystem types from earlier editions of this acclaimed work has been updated, revised, and supplemented with additional content in order to create this new text focusing exclusively on wetland ecosystems. This book now complements Wetlands, Fourth Edition. Following an introduction to ecosystems in general and wetland ecosystems in particular, Wetland Ecosystems examines the major types of wetlands found throughout the world: coastal wetlands, freshwater marshes and forested swamps, and peatlands. The final chapter reviews three fundamental systems approaches to studying wetlands: mesocosms, full-scale experimental ecosystems, and mathematical modeling. This new text features: Updated descriptions of the hydrology, biogeochemistry, and biology of the main types of wetlands found in the world New content introducing general ecosystems, wetland ecosystems, whole ecosystem and mesocosm experiments with wetlands, and systems ecology and modeling A detailed description of the ecosystem services provided by wetlands A broad international scope, including many examples of wetlands located outside North America Two new coauthors offering new perspectives and additional insights into the latest ecosystem and modeling techniques An abundance of illustrations helps readers understand how different biological communities and the abiotic environment in wetland ecosystems interact and function. Tables and text boxes provide at-a-glance summaries of key information. Lastly, each chapter concludes with a list of recommended readings. This text has been designed as an introduction for students and professionals in wetland ecology and management, general ecology, environmental science, and natural resource management.
Download or read book Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Leopold, father of the "land ethic," once said, "The time has come for science to busy itself with the earth itself. The first step is to reconstruct a sample of what we had to begin with." The concept he expressedâ€"restorationâ€"is defined in this comprehensive new volume that examines the prospects for repairing the damage society has done to the nation's aquatic resources: lakes, rivers and streams, and wetlands. Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems outlines a national strategy for aquatic restoration, with practical recommendations, and features case studies of aquatic restoration activities around the country. The committee examines: Key concepts and techniques used in restoration. Common factors in successful restoration efforts. Threats to the health of the nation's aquatic ecosystems. Approaches to evaluation before, during, and after a restoration project. The emerging specialties of restoration and landscape ecology.
Download or read book Restoring Streams in Cities written by Ann L. Riley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann L. Riley describes an interdisciplinary approach to stream management that does not attempt to control streams, but rather considers the stream as a feature in the urban environment. She presents a logical sequence of land-use planning, site design, and watershed restoration measures along with stream channel modifications and floodproofing strategies that can be used in place of destructive and expensive public works projects. She features examples of effective and environmentally sensitive bank stabilization and flood damage reduction projects, with information on both the planning processes and end results. Chapters provide: history of urban stream management and restoration; information on federal programs, technical assistance, and funding opportunities; and in-depth guidance on implementing projects: collecting watershed and stream channel data, installing revegetation projects, protecting buildings from overbank stream flows.
Download or read book Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billion gallons. The city's Watershed Protection Program is intended to maintain and enhance the high quality of these surface water sources. Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program assesses the efficacy and future of New York City's watershed management activities. The report identifies program areas that may require future change or action, including continued efforts to address turbidity and responding to changes in reservoir water quality as a result of climate change.
Download or read book Restored Urban Streams written by Ann L. Riley and published by . This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, urban streams were perceived as little more than flood control devices designed to hurry water through cities and neighborhoods with scant thought for aesthetics or ecological considerations. But stream restoration pioneers like hydrologist Ann Riley argued that by restoring ecological function and with careful management, streams and rivers could be a net benefit to cities instead of a net liability. Riley has since spearheaded numerous urban stream restoration projects and put to rest the long-held misconception that degraded urban streams are beyond help. What has been missing, however, has been detailed guidance for restoration practitioners wanting to undertake similar urban stream restoration projects that worked with, rather than against, nature. This book presents the author's thirty years of practical experience managing long-term stream and river restoration projects in heavily degraded urban environments. Although the case studies are local, the principles, methods, and tools are universal, and can be applied in almost any city in the world.
Download or read book Urban Stream Restoration Program written by Ann Lawrence Riley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stream Corridor Restoration written by U. S. Department Agriculture and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoration practitioners share simultaneously in the good fortune and responsibility of participating in a new endeavor - stepping beyond the current concept of natural resources conservation to a newer concept of restoring the living environment to an ecologically viable condition -to create places that improve rather than degrade over time. This document is a result of an unprecedented cooperative effort among fifteen Federal agencies and partners to produce a common reference on stream corridor restoration. It responds to a growing national and international public interest in restoring stream corridors. Increasingly, feature articles, case studies, and published papers focus on stream corridors as critical ecosystems in our living environment. This document encapsulates the rapidly expanding body of knowledge related to stream corridors and their restoration. It makes no endorsement of one particular approach to restoration over another; nor is it intended as a policy document of any participating Federal agency. It includes the full range of possibilities facing restoration practitioners, including no action or passive approaches, partial intervention for assisted recovery, and substantial intervention for managed recovery. The document encourages locally led, public involvement in restoration planning and implementation. The challenges in restoring thousands of miles of degraded stream corridors must involve government agencies, public and private landowners, permit holders, and local volunteer, civic, and conservation groups and individuals. This document takes a more encompassing approach to restoration than most other texts and manuals. It provides broadly applicable guidance for common elements of the restoration process, but also provides alternatives, and references to alternatives, which may be appropriate for site-specific restoration activities. Moreover, the document incorporates and reflects the experiences of the collaborating agencies and provides a common technical reference that can be used to restore systems based on experiences and basic scientific knowledge. As a general goal, this document promotes the use of ecological processes (physical, chemical, and biological) and minimally intrusive solutions to restore self-sustaining stream corridor functions. It provides information necessary to develop and select appropriate alter natives and solutions, and to make informed management decisions regarding valuable stream corridors and their watersheds. In addition, the document recognizes the complexity of most stream restoration work and promotes an integrated approach to restoration. It supports close cooperation among all participants in order to achieve a common set of objectives. The guidance contained in this document is applicable nationwide in both urban and rural settings. The material presented applies to a range of stream types, including intermittent and perennial streams of all sizes, and rivers too small to be navigable by barges. It offers a scientific perspective on restoration work ranging from simple to complex, with the level of detail increasing as the scale moves from the landscape to the stream reach.
Download or read book Flow regime Management written by Matthew James Burns and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthy streams are important. They support a range of biota and ecosystem services. Yet, many urban streams are degraded; primarily by stormwater runoff, delivered through conventional stormwater drainage systems. Standard approaches to stormwater management for environmental protection do not address the ecologically important changes to hydrology caused by stormwater drainage. My thesis proposed and explored an alternative approach to stormwater management-flow-regime management-which emphasizes the protection or restoration of hydrologic (and water quality) processes at small scales with the aim of returning catchment-scale flow regimes towards their natural condition. Building on this concept, the thesis assessed the degree to which SIGNAL (an aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblage composition index) is predicted by hydrologic indicators and a landscape-scale indicator of stormwater runoff (attenuated imperviousness [AI]). SIGNAL was best predicted by AI, while a model that included hydrologic indicators characterising high- and low-flow hydrology was only marginally less plausible. It was postulated that AI integrates all aspects of hydrologic alteration and other stressors, such as reduced in-stream water quality. The analyses confirmed the importance of stormwater runoff conveyed by stormwater drainage systems as a primary source of degradation to receiving waters.The thesis developed and evaluated a framework for setting stormwater management objectives, covering three components: (i) the proportion of rain falling on impervious areas that should be lost (evapotranspired and/or harvested), (ii) the proportion that should be infiltrated, and the (iii) equivalent initial loss, which characterizes the probability of surface runoff from a rain-event, with the aim of restoring pre-development levels of runoff retention within the catchment. Numeric targets for each objective were calculated for Melbourne, Australia as a case study. At land-parcel (site) and streetscape scales, empirical data and modelling were used to investigate the hydrologic performance of stormwater management strategies (rainwater tanks and rain-gardens) against the proposed objectives. Twelve tanks at the land-parcel (site) scale were monitored. Of these, only three achieved an equivalent initial loss that approached the proposed target-a consequence of limited demand and small tank capacity. The work demonstrated the important synergy between the water supply substitution benefits of rainwater tanks and their stormwater retention performance. The performance of various design configurations of rainwater tanks and rain-gardens was then modeled. Configurations where tanks - connected to a large range of internal uses - overflowed to rain-gardens were often able to achieve all three hydrologic restoration targets. The hydrologic performance of a rain-garden at the streetscape scale was also monitored and found not to be ideal, producing frequently untreated overflows. The rain-garden performed poorly because its area was only ~1% of its upstream impervious catchment. Modelling a larger rain-garden and domestic rainwater tanks in the streetscape still resulted in a water balance dissimilar to pre-development conditions. The results confirmed the importance of finding a means of losing much of the excess volume generated by impervious areas.Restoring flow regimes at small scales is thus primarily limited by demand for stormwater. However, at the household scale the amount of harvestable impervious runoff is similar to the demands which could be provided by stormwater, meaning that with the right combination of uses, adequate volume reduction should be possible. Finding demands at the streetscape scale is more challenging, particularly given the lower water quality and limited space for storage. Modelling was also undertaken to examine if stormwater management strategies applied at small scales could return more natural catchment scale flow regimes. The scenarios which treated only allotment scale impervious roof areas generally performed poorly, with a strategy addressing all catchment imperviousness being shown to be required. My thesis has demonstrated both the potential and challenges of incorporating flow-regime management into the control of urban stormwater. Such an approach could readily be applied in new urban areas and would likely protect receiving waters. However, research to confirm this hypothesis is urgently needed. Flow regime management could also be applied to degraded urban streams, albeit with comparatively more challenges. These challenges are however, not insurmountable, and it is clearly important to persevere given the values provided by urban streams.
Download or read book The Restoration of Rivers and Streams written by James A. Gore and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1985 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecological Restoration written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
