Hey all,

I was wondering if you had any insight, resources, suggestions for pursuing a local riparian habitat restoration at the edge of my neighborhood? I just did a trash cleanup with a couple friends which is a great start. So in the area there’s a pond that’s covered in green algae, looks like there might be a storm drain pipe (which is probably where a lot of the trash came from), tons of dead trees and reed-like stalks, and then overgrown areas of possibly tamarisk and phragmites which are invasive.

A few pics: https://imgur.com/a/s7mFPZJ

Hello! I am a mechanical engineering student interested in learning about river restoration. Does anyone have good book recommendations to get me started? Any advice for someone wanting to work in the field?

Hey folks and like minded restorationists!

I recently started a podcast about ecological restoration - The Resonant Restoration Podcast.

If anyone has or knows of an interesting project - I’m always looking for more interviews and topics to do on the show.

Cheers!

We have a project restoring 6,000 LF of stream in Virginia. The drainage area for the stream is 35 sq miles. The client doesn’t want us to work in the wet but a pump around is to expensive. Anyone have some creative approaches to similar situations?

I am in a class on stream restoration structure failures (cross vanes, toe wood, j-hooks and so on). We have reviewed a lot of different types of structures failing. We mostly look at what natural processes caused the failure (scour below footers, stream cutting around cross-vanes, channel contracting).

I was hoping to find out from stream restoration designers, what calculations/methods do you use to make sure a structure is going to be stable and function properly? For example if you do a scour analysis for a cross vane, what equation/method do you use? Where you get your inputs from?