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How can adaptive management and monitoring be incorporated into stream bank restoration and stabilization projects?
Pre-project data should be gathered, including success criteria, baseline surveys, design rationale, design drawings, and “as builts” which reflect the project implementation. Criteria that can be tracked and periodically compared to baseline conditions to monitor project effectiveness and success and feed into an adaptive management process include:
- Ability of the project to protect important streamside infrastructure (determined through photo monitoring);
- Survival of plant cuttings and increased presence of native riparian vegetation (determined by vegetation surveys);
- Flow velocities sustained by project (determined through flow monitoring);
- Channel cross-section adjustments (determined through cross-section surveys of the project area);
- Improved water quality and channel substrate composition (determined by turbidity monitoring and instream channel condition surveys); and
- Availability of instream habitat and its use by aquatic species of concern (determined through habitat and fish surveys).
Periodic or event-driven (following a major disturbance) monitoring of the project area will ensure that any project maintenance needs are noted and corrected in a timely manner.
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