river restoration Articles
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The challenge of restoring rivers - short version
Short video produced by Wetlands International - European Association and the Iberian Centre for River Restoration (CIREF) to illustrate the need for river restoration, the benefits it brings and the necessary factors for its ...
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A Win for River Restoration
A team of scientists from eWater CRC based in Canberra and at Griffith University in Queensland has won the WaterSecure - Healthy Waterways Research Award for its work on Prioritisation of Catchment Scale River Restoration within Southeast Queensland (SEQ). The work is part of a Queensland Government funded ‘proof of concept’ initiative designed to demonstrate that bringing ...
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River Talk Series: with Matthew Reddy, International RiverFoundation
Jane Madgwick sits down with Matthew Reddy, CEO of the International RiverFoundation to discuss the process and prestige of the 1st European Riverprize and the prospects for regional awards in the global south. This is one of the seven River Talk videos recorded at the European River Restoration ...
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River Talk Series: with Alastair Driver, National Conservation Manager of the UK Environment Agency
Jane Madgwick sits down with Alastair Driver, National Conservation Manager of the UK Environment Agency to discuss the impact in London and the UK after the River Thames won the Internatioanl RiverPrize. Alastair highlights some of the current projects of the Environment Agency and what the future needs are. This is one of the seven River Talk videos recorded at the European River Restoration ...
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Proceedings of the 10th Annual River Restoration Centre Networking Conference
The River Restoration Centre's 10th Annual Network Conference was held between the 1st and 3rd of April 2009 at the University of Nottingham. This event saw the number of delegates who have attended this run of events total just under two thousand, albeit with some repeat faces. Such an occasion called for both looking back and to the way forward. Continue reading the full ...
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Restoration Case Studies RiverWiki
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Willingness to pay for the urban river ecosystem restoration in Hangzhou and Nanjing, China
Continuing degradation of river ecosystems and environmental disruption are widespread in Chinese metropolitan areas. The study on the residents' preference for river ecosystem restoration is an essential part of assessing the environmental benefit and cost for policies implementation. A contingent valuation method is applied to estimate the public demand for urban river restoration in Hangzhou ...
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Submission on Policy Options for the Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s waters
Key points River restoration as part of ensuring green infrastructure is a key means to help reduce and counter the impacts of land and water use and provides the basis for resilient and sustainable water resource management. Sectoral impacts on water resources are much wider than just water quality impacts related to agriculture, which have a recognized strong impact, and the Blueprint needs ...
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A case study of regional risk assessment of river restoration projects: Nakdong River Basin, South Korea
An integrated approach to risk assessment that can pose significant challenges to mitigation and adaptation at the local or regional levels in the context of climate change was developed. First, a conceptual framework for flood risk analysis was developed based on the hydrologic hazard and the socioeconomic vulnerability of a region. Second, weighting factors for each indicator were estimated ...
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A multivariate approach to assess habitat integrity in urban streams using benthic macroinvertebrate metrics
Benthic macroinvertebrates are widely used as indicators of the health of freshwater ecosystems, responding both to water quality and to the hydromorphological integrity. In urban streams, evaluations can be tricky for the synergistic effects of multiple stressors and confounding factors. In these situations, the most broadly used multimetric indices can be used to assess the overall damage to ...
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Restoring a gravel/cobble substrate trout stream, Swift Run Creek
River Restoration Project on Swift Run Creek, Removal of Bentonite in Trout Stream to Restore Gravel/Cobble Substrate using Sand Wand™. Swift Run Creek is a trout stream 25 miles north of Charlottesville, Virginia. During a drilling project near Elkton, VA, bentonite was used as a lubricant in horizontal directional drilling under the creek, and also served to provide a seal around the ...
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9. Reflections and Lessons: Contextual Water Management
Being a delta country, the Netherlands has understandable concerns regarding the increasing frequency of high and low water situations as a result of climate change. This has warranted a drastic change of approach to water, land and nature management through a strategy that uses nature‘s resilience to provide for both human and natural environmental needs. The subject of our study ...
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A river environment index for Korean national rivers: rationale, methods and application
A methodology for indexing river environmental condition was developed and applied to 269 subsections of national rivers located in the Republic of Korea, based on a river management perspective. The resulting index has been called the River Environment Index (REI). To develop the methodology, a total of 32 factors related to a river's environment were initially investigated, from which ...
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Fawn River Restoration, Restoring one of Indiana`s Most Pristine Rivers
In 1998, approximately 100,000 CY of sediment was discharged to a 5-mile section of Fawn River, in Steuben County, Indiana as the result of a rapid draw down of an upstream reservoir (the “Event”). Prior to 1998, Fawn River below the Orland dam (“lower Fawn”) was recognized as one of the best-preserved sections of river in the State of Indiana. The Fawn had a deep swift ...
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Tucson to Revive River with Recycled Wastewater
Tucson’s project to restore the Santa Cruz River will take advantage of the city’s prior investment in water reclamation facilities and an extensive pipe network. Plan will take advantage of existing water reuse facilities Traveler Julius Froebel once described the lush river valley that he encountered on his 1855 trip along the Santa Cruz River as: […] covered with ...
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Successful reduction of diffuse nitrogen emissions at catchment scale: example from the pilot River Odense, Denmark
Land-based total nitrogen (N) loadings to Danish coastal waters have been markedly reduced since 2000. This has been achieved by general measures reducing discharges from all point sources and N leaching from farmed land supplemented with more local and targeted mitigation measures such as restoration of wetlands to increase the catchment-specific N retention. In the catchment of River ...
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Assessment of aquatic habitat effect by artificial change of streambed topography
As interest in ecosystems and the environment has recently increased, efforts for the preservation and restoration of river ecosystems have increased. The purpose of this study is to estimate the fish physical habitat by artificial change of streambed topography applying two-dimensional simulation model, River2D. A total reach length of 130 m along the Je stream located within the Geum River ...
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Sewage/effluent treatment by growth of diatom algae
A new process to treat sewage/e²uents, by using Nualgi, a patented product that aids the growth of diatom algae in the waste water is described. The growing diatom algae absorb nutrients and carbon dioxide from the water and produce oxygen by photosynthesis at micro plant level. The oxygen released during photosynthesis helps aerobic bacteria in breaking down the organics and converting the ...
By Nualgi
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The best way to restore environments in the face of climate change
Florida’s Kissimmee River once flowed freely. Fish, birds and other wildlife dwelled in the wetlands it fed. But in the 1960s, spurred by public outrage over flooding, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers straightened the winding waterway and turned it into a drainage canal. Flip forward a few decades and the river is returning — at least in part. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has ...
By Ensia
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Room for the River as an anecdote to Europe’s flood woes
As part of a training course on river restoration sponsored by the RESTORE project, I recently visited the Waal River, a main branch of the Rhine River, flowing through the Netherlands. Here the Dutch are making ‘Room for the River’, restoring floodplains to reduce the risks of floods and creating benefits for people and nature. On the heels of recent catastrophic floods in Central ...
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