Ann L. Riley describes an interdisciplinary approach to stream management that does not attempt to "control" streams, but rather considers the stream as a feature in the urban environment. She presents a logical sequence of land-use planning, site design, and watershed restoration measures along with stream channel modifications and floodproofing strategies that can be used in place of destructive and expensive public works projects. She features examples of effective and environmentally sensitive bank stabilization and flood damage reduction projects, with information on both the planning processes and end results. Chapters provide: history of urban stream management and restoration; information on federal programs, technical assistance, and funding opportunities; and in-depth guidance on implementing projects: collecting watershed and stream channel data, installing revegetation projects, protecting buildings from overbank stream flows.
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This review is from: Restoring Streams in Cities: A Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens (Paperback)
This unique book is a comprehensive and detailed guide to how to go about restoring streams that have been degraded by channelization, excessive erosion or sedimentation, and undergrounding into storm drains. It covers everything from how to form Friends groups and develop public support through engineering and design choices. As an educated citizen without specialized training in engineering, I found it highly readable; the concepts are presented thoroughly but without excessive jargon. The author is a cofounder of the Urban Creeks Council of California and the Coalition to Rescue Urban Waters.
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Planning and policy related to urban stream restoration,
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This book does an adequate job of generally presenting information in non-technical fashion for planners, policy makers, and citizens as related to stream restoration in cities. It is simplistic and fairly straight-forward reading for the layman interested in this topic.On page 128, there is a diagram showing "factors influencing stream erosion and sedimentation" which appears to be attributed to Mr. E W Lane in an American Society of Civil Engineers professional journal dated 1955. However, a closer inspection of this particular journal article by interested readers should reveal to them that the figure shown in Riley's book in reality doesn't actually appear in the journal itself; although the diagram's concepts themselves are given in the journal article. So the question remains, WHO ACTUALLY DREW THE DIAGRAM in Riley's book and WHY WEREN'T THEY PROPERLY RECOGNIZED IN IT? And HOW MANY OTHER MIS-LEADING OVERSIGHTS are possibly contained in the book? From a hydraulic and hydrologic technical and design stand-point, this book appears weak and I feel that citation problems like I previously mentioned are inexcusable and not acceptable for a published book. Thus my average rating of it.
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Streams are a resource generally taken for granted or completely ignored, but we all live in a watershed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
instream life, bankfull channel, action planning school, urban stream restoration, tree revetments, waterway restoration, stream restoration projects, river corridor management, floodplain managers, floodplain planning, bankfull width, bioregional council, water resources programs, floodplain restoration, channelization projects, floodplain management, meander length, revegetation projects, urban creeks, volunteer monitoring, bankfull discharge, water planners, natural stream channel, supercritical flows, container stock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Army Corps of Engineers, Soil Conservation Service, United States, Geological Survey, San Francisco, New York, Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Public Law, Forest Service, Tennessee Valley Authority, Department of Agriculture, Los Angeles, National Park Service, Water Resources Council, Tice Creek, Bureau of Reclamation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Water Resources Development Act, History of Federal Water Resources Programs, Luna Leopold, Izaak Walton League, American Fisheries Society, Clean Water Act, New Deal New!
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Streams are a resource generally taken for granted or completely ignored, but we all live in a watershed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
instream life, bankfull channel, action planning school, urban stream restoration, tree revetments, waterway restoration, stream restoration projects, river corridor management, floodplain managers, floodplain planning, bankfull width, bioregional council, water resources programs, floodplain restoration, channelization projects, floodplain management, meander length, revegetation projects, urban creeks, volunteer monitoring, bankfull discharge, water planners, natural stream channel, supercritical flows, container stock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Army Corps of Engineers, Soil Conservation Service, United States, Geological Survey, San Francisco, New York, Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Public Law, Forest Service, Tennessee Valley Authority, Department of Agriculture, Los Angeles, National Park Service, Water Resources Council, Tice Creek, Bureau of Reclamation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Water Resources Development Act, History of Federal Water Resources Programs, Luna Leopold, Izaak Walton League, American Fisheries Society, Clean Water Act, New Deal New!
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- Water in Environmental Planning by Thomas Dunne on 12 pages
- Channel Stability Assessment for Flood Control Projects (Technical Engineering and Design Guides As Adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) by United States Army Corps of Engineers on 4 pages
- A View of the River by Luna B. Leopold on 4 pages
- Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology (Dover Earth Science) by Luna B. Leopold on page 150, page 158, and page 160
- Design with Nature (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design) by Ian L. McHarg on page 51, and page 84
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- Water for Life: Water Management and Environmental Policy by James L. Wescoat Jr in Back Matter
- The Sustainable Urban Development Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series) by Ebenezer Howard in Back Matter
- A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation by Nicole Silk on page 187
- The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable by Gretchen Daily in Back Matter
- The New Economy of Nature by Gretchen Daily in Back Matter
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