Stream Channel and Riparian Restoration Projects
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Our watershed protection and restoration projects range from erosion
and sediment control plans for minor land disturbances to progressive
restoration plans and project prioritization for large watersheds.
These projects have included both conventional bank protection methods,
natural channel design, bio-stabilization designs, and land form
stormwater controls.
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| Moose Tracks Estate FGM Bridge Assessment
This project was a fluvial geomorphic assessment of Rock Creek in Red Lodge MT. The bridge crossing is being destroyed by the lateral movement of the channel due to past channel alterations and detachment of the stream channel from its floodplain by fill activities. Recommendations included restoring the channel to its historic course and removing flood plain fill before any bridge replacement.
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| Little Elk Creek Riparian Restoration
This project involved the development of a riparian corridor re-vegetation plan for a lined stream channel being reconstructed to isolate contaminated groundwater for treatment. The restoration plan included bank bio-stabilization, aquatic bed enhancements, and establishment of a tiered system of hydrologic planting regimes trending from obligate bank species to upland conditions on gabion walls.
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| Thompson Run Spring Channel Restoration Plan
A restoration plan prepared by Water’s Edge was implemented by Penn State University to remove trash and debris from a clean spring channel to prevent overflows to an adjacent stormwater retention basin. An overall management plan was developed to maintain the hydraulic capacity of the channel, collect floating trash in the stormwater pond, and restore the integrity of the channel bank.
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| Fort Martin Mitigation Boat Ramp Jetty Project
This project is being completed as partial mitigation for river access impacts associated with the installation of new barge facilities for a coal fired power plant on the Monongahela River in West Virginia. Following negotiations with the state and Corps of Engineers, this site was selected for the installation of a rock jetty to provide river access adjacent to a boat launch project.
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| Gaydos Stream Bank Stabilization Project
This project is a stream bank and channel restoration project for 860 feet on Class A trout stream in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. The channel is severely incised and bank toe erosion has caused a mass slide of the hillside into the channel. The restoration design consisted of a rock toe revetment on the outside bend of the channel, realignment of a portion of the channel to reduce the radius of curvature and log vanes to direct the energy away from the banks.
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| Sandy Creek Bank Stabilization Design
Changes in stream patterns from flood debris is causing sever bank erosion and property loss at this project location. Due to its limited extent, a simple rip-rap bank protection design was proposed to utilize some of the in-stream rocks that were part of the cause of the problem. The project was permitted under a Pennsylvania 105 General Permit.
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| Popiwchak Stream Channel and Bank Stabilization Project
Flooding of a small stream in Tunkhannock Borough Pennsylvania deposited large woody debris causing the channel to migrate toward a bank of highly erodible soils. The result is the continued bank erosion and loss of residential property. The solution selected for this project is a combination channel restoration to the original location, log cribbing and log vane structures to help maintain the channel in the alluvial deposits that now are present.
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| Rice Bank Stabilization Project
This project involved the design of bank revetment to stabilize the toe of the bank being eroded during high flow events. Due to the size of the stream and residential setting, the design solution was to create a narrow bankfull bench along the outside eroded bank of the channel with wall rock and bio-stabilize the upper slope to control erosion when flows exceed bankfull conditions.
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| LaChase Bank Stabilization Project
High stream flows in this urban residential setting are directed through a large culvert. When these flows exit the culvert the unchecked energy caused severe bank erosion and loss of property downstream of the outlet protection for the culvert. Due to access limitations and the small size of the channel the design solution for this project was the use of stacked wall rock to extend the protection from the culvert to a less incised section of the channel where energy could be more efficiently dissipated.
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| Roaring Branch Restoration Concept Plan Development
This project was one of the priority sites for bank and channel restoration identified in a comprehensive watershed assessment and restoration Plan in Lycoming County Pennsylvania. The concept plan involved channel realignment, creation of a bankfull bench and natural channel design in-stream structures to protect the banks from further erosion and reduce downstream gravel deposits under a state highway bridge. Final design and construction was completed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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