River Restoration Workshop Series

November 17, 2014

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

Residential and urban rivers and streams are becoming degraded throughout the nation. A broadening landscape of impervious surfaces – parking lots, roads and rooftops – causes changes to stream hydrology. These changes often lead to accelerated erosion of stream banks or a downcutting of streambeds each time it rains. Rivers and streams have also often been channelized or otherwise modified to serve man’s purposes and convey floodwater more quickly downstream. These changes all have as adverse impact on stream communities.
Since 2001, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant has hosted workshops pertaining to various aspects of river and stream restoration. The River Restoration: Practices and Concepts workshops provide the opportunity to hear about the latest restoration projects from experts nationally as well as from the region, and communicate with other professionals with similar interests. Here is a list of previous workshops

2014 River Restoration Workshop, Chicago IL, March 11, 2014

2014 River Restoration: Practices and Concepts
Dam Removals in Illinois Arlan R. Juhl, Office of Water Resources
Dam Removals: Permit Requirements
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Design, Implementation and Analysis of Studies to Evaluate Restoration Practices
Ecological Perspective: Evaluating Benefits of Dam Removals in Northeastern IllinoisSteve Pescitelli, Divison of Fisheries
How to Design and Implement a Dam Removal Brian Graber, American Graber
Illinois EPA Perspective on Dam Removal Darren Gove, Illinois EPA, Bureau of Water, Division of Water Pollution Control

Previous Conferences

If we build it, will they come? Messy Implications of Assessing Biological Responses to River Restoration, Luther Aadland, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, December 2009
Design, Implementation and Analysis of Studies to Evaluate Restoration Practices, Robert Fisher, University of Alabama at Birmingham, December 2009
A Hands-on Workshop on the Latest Techniques for Stream Restoration June 2001
A Hands-on Workshop on the Latest Techniques for Dam Modification and Removal April 2002
Beyond the Basics of Dam Removal and Modification Workshop June 2003
Riparian Bioengineering and Restoration Techniques July 2004
Restoring Stream Fisheries with Meander Pools, Riffles and Fishways
September 2005
Fish Passage on Midwestern Streams: Evaluation of Stability and Functionality of Dam Removals, Constructed Fishways and Culvert Crossings
November 2007

Images of Sea Grant's work in research, education and extension provided by (from left to right) Wisconsin, Guam and Florida Sea Grant programs. Design by Hallee Meltzer | National Sea Grant Office.

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