{"id":7213,"date":"2012-02-04T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2012-02-04T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T01:18:12","slug":"scenic-saturday-the-pretty-side-of-stream-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2012\/02\/scenic-saturday-the-pretty-side-of-stream-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenic Saturday: The pretty side of stream restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anneicon.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Anne Jefferson\"\/><\/span>Some days, working in restored urban streams is quite enjoyable. The picture below is one of our field sites for a multi-year study of the downstream effects of stormwater management. This is Edwards Branch, and it is one of the jewels of Charlotte&#8217;s intensive efforts to restore its urban waterways.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33937869@N05\/6819897441\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Edwards Branch stream restoration\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7153\/6819897441_5a335ee53e_z.jpg\" title=\"Edwards Branch stream restoration\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two tributaries come together in a restored reach of Edwards Branch, September 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/charmeck.org\/stormwater\/Projects\/Pages\/EdwardsBranch(PhaseI).aspx\">reach was restored in 2002<\/a>, with additional work done in 2005 and 2008. Among the features of this project was the creation of a large stormwater wetland, which lies between the two branches of the stream and is just out of sight in the picture above. The stream channel was also restored using a variety of standard techniques including bioengineering, rock steps, bank regrading, and riparian planting. You can see some of those practices at work if you look closely at the picture below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33937869@N05\/6819897917\/in\/set-72157629176953485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Edwards Branch, looking downstream.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7001\/6819897917_a8cfe3955d_z.jpg\" title=\"Edwards Branch, looking downstream.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwards Branch, looking downstream. How many restoration features can you spot?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Edwards Branch certainly shows the signs of human activities, but amidst the dense foliage, with the clear baseflow, it would be easy to think of stream restoration as a cure-all for the woes of urban streams. That it most certainly is not. And sometimes it&#8217;s not so pretty, but that&#8217;s a post for another day. For now, enjoy today&#8217;s Scenic Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, working in restored urban streams is quite enjoyable. The picture below is one of our field sites for a multi-year study of the downstream effects of stormwater management. This is Edwards Branch, and it is one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2012\/02\/scenic-saturday-the-pretty-side-of-stream-restoration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,22,24,144,26],"tags":[546,547],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-anne","category-environment","category-fieldwork","category-geomorphology","category-photos","tag-stream-restoration","tag-urban-streams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}