river stream restoration

Geomorphic and Ecological Fundamentals for River and Stream Restoration

Sagehen Creek Field Station, Truckee, California 13-17 August 2012

http://sagehen.ucnrs.org/courses/geomorph.htm

This five-day introductory course emphasizes understanding geomorphic and ecological process as a sound basis for planning and designing river restoration, covering general principles and case studies from a wide range of environments. Incorporating insights from recent research in fluvial geomorphology and ecology, the course emphasizes developing predictive connections between objectives and actions, learning from built restoration projects, and developing restoration strategies and innovative management approaches to address underlying causes of channel or ecosystem change, rather than prescriptive approaches.

The course integrates perspectives from leading academic researchers to consulting practitioners

GEOPHYSICAL MONOGRAPH SERIES, VOL. 194, 544 PP., 2011
ISSN: 0065-8448; ISBN: 978-0-87590-483-2

Stream Restoration in Dynamic Fluvial Systems: Scientific Approaches, Analyses, and Tools

A. Simon, S. J. Bennett, and J. M. Castro (Eds.)

Public Comments Being Accepted on the SJRRP’s Seepage Monitoring Thresholds.

From:http://www.restoresjr.net/

Zhuanhe River

Beijing, China

Stream length: 3700m

Background of river restoration

l The Zhuanhe River, a segment of the north-ring water system, connects the Summer Palace and the Chaoyang Park. Zhuanhe River is an urban river system. Zhuanhe River was covered up from 1975 to 1982, and the river training project started from 2002 to restore the original appearance of its history.

l Along with the development of social economy and people's constant pursuit for better living environment, people have put forward comprehensive requirements on the training of urban lake and river in many aspects including flood prevention, water quality improvement, ecology conservation and restoration as well as cultural landscape etc.

l During the Tenth Five-year Plan period, Beijing focused on the training of water system in central urban and the investments were increased compared with the past years. In addition to traditional river trai

Xinjiangtang stream

Haining, China

Stream length: 32400m

Background of river restoration

Xinjiangtang stream is a plain river network, which usually has moderate flow velocity. Problems such as sedimentation, water and soil loss, shrinkage of water area, water quality deterioration are ubiquitous in Xinjiangtang stream. More over, navigation in the stream gradually has faded away in recent years.

Bank erosion in Xinjiangtang stream is mainly due to surface soil erosion caused by rain wash and slope collapse caused by wave scour.

According to preliminary statistics, of all the river sludge, 60% comes from slope collapse, 30% is from surface soil loss and 10% is from decomposed material of plant.

Project Planning and Design

l In combination with the implementation of a research program financed by the Ministry of Water Resources, from 2004 to 2005, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research wa

During Aug.18-23, I joined the 8th world congress of the international association for landscape ecology, and made a poster presentation. The following pics is the poster of the paper-Research on analysis method of habitat landscape heterogeneity at river corridor scale

    

The 6th International Forum on “Waterfront and Watershed Restoration” was successfully held in Seoul KOREA on 29th Sep. 2009. The organizer is: Asian River Restoration Network (ARRN), Korea Institute of Construction Technology (KICT), Korea River Association (KRA).

In this forum, one paper I am involved in is issued, the website of the paper is as follows,

http://www.a-rr.net/report/docs/6thARRNforum_ChinaFullpaper.pdf

During geomorphic process, river instability is one key factor which affects the effectiveness of river restoration project. River instability can be divied into systemwide instability and local instability. Systemwide instability often is in watershed scale, and can accelerate the accumulance of local instability. Local instability often refers to local scour or fill. Before making measures for river bank or bed protection in specific site, it is critical to differentiate what kind of instability it belongs to.

http://www.ec.gc.ca/envirozine/default.asp?lang=En&n=5FC4D0B1-1

There is one team in Quebec City with a passion for eco-hydraulics, and they built one model for St. Lawrence River to learn more about the present and future threat to its health.

One good river prize which selects wonderful river around the world to express respect to the outstanding contribution for rivers. International RiverFoundation(IRF) http://www.riverfoundation.org.au/index.php rewards and champions best practice in river basin managment through river prize. Once, Sha River in Chengdu China, won the prize in 2006.

Past Thiess International Riverprize Winners 1999 - 2010

• 2010 – River Thames, England
• 2009 – Lake Simcoe, Canada
• 2008 – St. Johns River, USA
• 2007 – Danube River, Austria
• 2006 – Sha River, China
• 2005 – The Drôme River, France
• 2004 – Siuslaw River Basin, USA
• 2003 – Alexander River, Israel (in co-operation with the Palestinians)
• 2002 –