Restoring neighborhood streams: planning, design, and construction / Ann L. Riley

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Foreword.. Acknowledgments.. Chapter 1. Is the Restoration of Urban Streams Possible?.. How Urban Streams Differ from Streams in Other Settings.. How Urban Streams Evolve.. Clarifying Different Perspectives on Restoration.. Applying Local Examples to Other Restorations.. Case Study Geography and Demographics.. References.. Chapter 2. Defining Restoration.. Restoration Levels.. Form and Function.. Restoration Objectives for Case Studies.. Schools of Restoration.. References.. Chapter 3. Neighborhood-Scale Restoration Projects.. Strawberry Creek Daylighting in Rail Yard, Berkeley, 1983.. Project History.. Project Design and Construction.. Landscaping and Maintenance.. Related Projects.. Project Lessons and Significance.. Glen Echo Creek Reconstruction, Oakland, 1985.. Project History.. Project Design and Construction.. Landscaping and Maintenance.. Related Projects.. Project Lessons and Significance.. Blackberry Creek, Daylighting in Thousand Oaks Elementary School Yard, Berkeley, 1995.. Project History.. Statewide and National Context.. Project Design and Construction.. Landscaping and Maintenance.. Project Lessons and Significance.. Baxter Creek, Daylighting in a Median Strip, El Cerrito, 1996.. Project History.. Project Design and Construction.. Landscaping and Maintenance.. Project Lessons and Significance.. Related Projects.. Baxter Creek at Booker T. Anderson Park, Richmond, 2000.. Project History and Description.. Maintaining Riparian Corridors in High-Crime Areas.. Baxter Creek Gateway Project, El Cerrito, 2005.. Project History.. Project Planning, Design, and Construction.. Ohlone Gap Green Way, Richmond.. Mira Flores Project, Richmond.. Village Creek Daylighting in Housing Redevelopment, Albany, 2008.. Project History.. Project Design and Construction.. Project Lessons and Significance.. Beaver Restoration Crews on Alhambra Creek, Downtown Martinez, 2008

Project History.. Project Design and Construction.. Project Lessons and Significance.. Other Alhambra Creek Watershed Projects.. References.. Chapter 4. What Neighborhood Projects Teach.. Setting Project Objectives.. How Projects Happen.. Restoration Design Methods Evolve.. Applying the Schools of Restoration.. Passive School.. Channel Evolution School.. Stream Process Descriptions.. Applying Analogs.. Empirical Methods, Including Hydraulic Geometry and Regional Curves.. Analytical School and Hydrology.. Biological Sciences.. Project Installation.. Revegetation Strategies.. Maintenance.. Project Costs: Design Build and Formal Bid Contracts.. Conclusions and Recommendations.. Project Planning and Design.. Managing the Homeless and Fears of Habitat in Cities.. Project Assessments.. Functional Riparian Restoration.. The Keystone to Watershed Restoration: Citizen Involvement.. References.. Appendix. Regional San Francisco Bay Restoration Plant Survivors and Plants Associated With More Risk To Survival (Common And Latin Names.. About The Author.. Index

Thirty years ago, the best thinking on urban stream management prescribed cement as the solution to flooding and other problems of people and flowing water forced into close proximity. Urban streams were perceived as little more than flood control devices designed to hurry water through cities and neighborhoods with scant thought for aesthetics or ecological considerations. Stream restoration pioneers like hydrologist Ann Riley thought differently. She and other like-minded field scientists imagined that by restoring ecological function, and with careful management, streams and rivers could be a net benefit to cities, instead of a net liability. In the intervening decades, she has spearheaded numerous urban stream restoration projects and put to rest the long-held misconception that degraded urban streams are beyond help. What has been missing, however, is detailed guidance for restoration practitioners wanting to undertake similar urban stream restoration projects that worked with, rather than against, nature. This book presents the author's thirty years of practical experience managing long-term stream and river restoration projects in heavily degraded urban environments. Riley provides a level of detail only a hands-on design practitioner would know, including insights on project design, institutional and social context of successful projects, and how to avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes. Early chapters clarify terminology and review strategies and techniques from historical schools of restoration thinking. But the heart of the book comprises the chapters containing nine case studies of long-term stream restoration projects in northern California. Although the stories are local, the principles, methods, and tools are universal, and can be applied in almost any city in the world. eng