Undergraduate Admission
    Graduate Admission

    Stream Restoration Workshop, SC 088

    About this Course:
    Government and not-for-profit agencies are charged with demanding environmental responsibilities. Stream management concerns and initiatives can range from protecting the stream corridor, to preventing debris jams, to repairing site-specific erosion problems, to large-scale stream restoration projects. Opportunities are often available to enhance or restore degraded streams and to convert them into community assets.

    Environmentally sound stream management requires a basic understanding of stream dynamics including fluvial geomorphology. Restoration of streams includes applying principles of natural channel design to the extent that project limitations would allow.

    Prerequisites:
    Basic knowledge of watershed hydrology.

    Who Should Attend:
    Municipal, Park District, State, and Federal employees, Natural Area Managers, Homeowner Association Members, and Watershed Organization leaders with awareness of watershed management concepts.

    Expected Outcomes:
    Participants will gain technical and practical understanding for environmentally sound restoration of urban and rural streams.

    Course Outline:
    Natural Channel Design consists of measuring geomorphic parameters from a reference reach and then applying the reference reach parameters to the design reach through the use of dimensionless ratios. Benefits of environmentally sound stream management can include:

    • Cost-Effective Expenditures for Stream Restoration
    • Improved Grant Funding Opportunities
    • Recreational Opportunity
    • Better Flood Protection
    • Water Quality Improvement
    • Reduced Sediment Removal / Debris Maintenance
    • Habitat Restoration
    • Addresses NPDES Phase II Permit Requirements
    • Fish and Aquatic Insect Diversity / Fish Passage
    • Stream Stability Increases Over Time
    • Aesthetic Benefits
    • Property Value Protection
    • Reduced Construction Costs (Versus Hardscape Stabilization)
    • Increased Public Safety
    • Planting Aesthetics (Natural vs. Ornamental) Can Vary
    • Prevents Loss of Land
    • Wildlife Diversity

    CEU:
    1.5

    Presented By:
    Ted Gray, P.E., CFM, CPESC
    Living Waters Consultants, Inc.