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 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 Restoring Neighborhood Streams written by Ann L. Riley and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the author’s thirty years of practical experience managing long-term stream and river restoration projects in heavily degraded urban environments. Riley provides a level of detail only a hands-on design practitioner would know, including insights on project design, institutional and social context of successful projects, and how to avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes.
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 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 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 Field Manual of Urban Stream Restoration written by Conservation Technology Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Streams of Revenue written by Rebecca Lave and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of stream mitigation banking and the challenges of implementing market-based approaches to environmental conservation. Market-based approaches to environmental conservation have been increasingly prevalent since the early 1990s. The goal of these markets is to reduce environmental harm not by preventing it, but by pricing it. A housing development on land threaded with streams, for example, can divert them into underground pipes if the developer pays to restore streams elsewhere. But does this increasingly common approach actually improve environmental well-being? In Streams of Revenue, Rebecca Lave and Martin Doyle answer this question by analyzing the history, implementation, and environmental outcomes of one of these markets: stream mitigation banking. In stream mitigation banking, an entrepreneur speculatively restores a stream, generating “stream credits” that can be purchased by a developer to fulfill regulatory requirements of the Clean Water Act. Tracing mitigation banking from conceptual beginnings to implementation, the authors find that in practice it is very difficult to establish equivalence between the ecosystems harmed and those that are restored, and to cope with the many sources of uncertainty that make positive restoration outcomes unlikely. Lave and Doyle argue that market-based approaches have failed to deliver on conservation goals and call for a radical reconfiguration of the process.
Download or read book The Effects of Restoration Structures on Nutrient Uptake and Macroinvertebrate Communities in Restored Urban Streams in Greensboro North Carolina written by Stacy Lynn Hines and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Urban stream restoration projects have been undertaken to improve physical, chemical, and biological integrity, but there has been little assessment of the effectiveness of these projects in restoring ecological function. I looked at the effect of restoration on improving water quality, periphyton, nutrient uptake, and macroinvertebrate communities compared to unrestored streams. When there was a restoration effect, I compared three types of restoration structures (riffle, cross vane, and step pool) in the restored streams to unrestored streams. Two years after restoration, restored streams did have a more oxygen rich environment. The structures provided hard substrate for algal growth which positively affected nutrient uptake length. There was also a strong trend toward faster uptake velocity and greater uptake rate in restored streams. There was a trend indicating riffles were more beneficial than cross vanes and step pools. The trend suggested that riffles allowed for more mean algal growth and had better water quality ratings. Despite the benefits of the restoration, there was little improvement in biotic integrity based on the North Carolina Biotic Index."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Download or read book The Efficacy of Urban Stream Restorations to Improve Water Quality Across a Spectrum of Design Approaches written by Maura Browning and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent national water quality inventory lists more than one-third of assessed rivers in the United States as impaired or polluted (EPA 2002). Concerns over the impacts of urbanization--the second largest contributor of non-point source pollution to surface water (Veissman and Hammer 2005)--have resulted in the initiation of major investments in urban stream restoration in the United States. However, less than 10% of stream restorations are currently post-monitored for goal attainment (Bernhardt et al. 2005; Hassett 2007). This study strives to address the wide research gap in post-stream restoration monitoring; particularly those associated with urban, headwater streams, as they receive the largest share of river restoration dollars and effort in the United States (Bernhardt and Palmer 2007). More specifically, this study focuses on water quality monitoring, nationally one of the most commonly stated project goals of stream restoration (Bernhardt et al. 2005). The general research design involved water quality and discharge monitoring of three restored stream reaches across a spectrum of design approaches ("hard" structural design, "soft" bioengineering design, and "seepage wetland" design) on a bimonthly basis between October 2007 and April 2008, primarily during baseflow conditions. Upstream and downstream water quality data for nitrogen (nitrate + nitrite and ammonium), total suspended solids, pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, and specific conductivity were statistically evaluated with paired t-tests. Water quality improvement amongst the three design approaches was statistically evaluated by comparing the differences between upstream and downstream concentrations using an ANOVA test. All statistical analyses utilized a 95% confidence level and were conducted using SPSS statistical software. The efficacy of the three design approaches was further evaluated by calculating percent differences between upstream and downstream concentrations as well as by calculating nitrogen and sediment removal efficiencies. This study's results suggests that (1) all restored urban streams have the potential to improve water quality, as demonstrated by statistically significant differences between upstream and downstream concentrations for nitrate-N and dissolved oxygen in all three streams in the paired t-tests; and (2) the "seepage wetland" approach exhibited a greater percent removal of nitrate-N than the other two approaches.
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 Stream and Watershed Restoration written by Philip Roni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With $2 billion spent annually on stream restoration worldwide, there is a pressing need for guidance in this area, but until now, there was no comprehensive text on the subject. Filling that void, this unique text covers both new and existing information following a stepwise approach on theory, planning, implementation, and evaluation methods for the restoration of stream habitats. Comprehensively illustrated with case studies from around the world, Stream and Watershed Restoration provides a systematic approach to restoration programs suitable for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses on stream or watershed restoration or as a reference for restoration practitioners and fisheries scientists. Part of the Advancing River Restoration and Management Series. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/roni/streamrestoration.
Download or read book Revitalizing Urban Waterway Communities written by Richard Smardon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe. This book presents models and examples for organizing multiple stakeholders for purposes of waterway revitalization—if not restoration—within a context of fairness and environmental justice. After decades of neglect and misuse the challenge of cleaning up urban rivers and streams is shown to be complex and truly daunting. Urban river cleanup typically involves multiple agendas and stakeholders, as well as complicated technical issues. It is also often the situation that the most affected have the least voice in what happens. The authors present social process models for maximum inclusion of various stakeholders in decision-making for urban waterway regeneration. A range of examples is presented, drawn principally from North America and Europe.
Download or read book Field Manual of Urban Stream Restoration written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 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:
Download or read book Ecological and geomorphological impacts of stability restoration in urban streams written by Brian Guthrie Laub and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monitoring Assessing and Restoring Urban Streams written by Rebecca Szal and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
