Introduction to Stream Restoration - Hydro-Environmental Analysis: Freshwater Environments - page 221

TABLE 8.3
Most Commonly Used Restoration Practices

Dan
Removal/
Retroit

Instream
Habitat
Improvement

Instream
Species
Management

Water
Quality
Management

Aesthetics/
Education

Bank
Stabilization

Channel
Reconiguration

Fish
Passage

Floodplain
Reconnection

Flow
Modiication

Land
Acquisition

Riparian
Management

Stormwater
Management

Agricultural BMPs

X - - - - - - - - - - - X

Backwater sediment dredging

- - - - - - X - - - - - -

Bank or channel reshaping

X - X X - X X - X X X X -

Boulders added

- X - - X X X X - - X - X

X - - - - - - - - - - - -

Cleaning (e.g., trash removal)

Dam removal

- - - X X - - - X - - - -

Delectors

- X - - - - - X - - - - -

Education

X - - - - - - - - - - - X

X - - - - - - - - - X - - Eradication of weeds/nonnative

plants

Fencing

- - - - - - - - X X X - X

Fish ladders installed

- - - X X - - - - - - - -

- - - X X - - - - - - - - Fish passage installed

Fish screens installed

- - - - X - - - - - - - -

Flow regime enhancement

- - - X - - X - X - - - -

Grading-banks

- X X - - X - - - - - X -

Irrigation (increased eficiency)

- - - - - - - - - X - - -

- - - - - - - - - X - - -

Land acquisition or purchase

Livestock exclusions

- - - - - - - - - X X - X

LWD added

- X - - X - - X - - X - X

LWD removed

- - - - X - - - - - - - -

- - X X - X - - - - - X -

Meander creation

Monitoring biota

- - - - - - - - X - - - -

Monitoring low

- - - - - - X - X X - - -

Native species protection

- - - - - - - - X - - - -

(Continued)