Final Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Individual Stream Restoration Projects

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Schueler, T., Stack, B. 2013. Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Individual Stream Restoration Projects. Chesapeake Stormwater Network and Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. Pages 1-131 pollutant, restoration, stream, urban US EPA Chesapeake Bay Expert Panel report recommendations for stream restoration projects in reducing the delivery of sediments and nutrients to the Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) panel of experts on the practice of urban stream restoration have defined 3 different protocols for achieving pollutant reductions through ”stream restoration”. Localities can get credit toward meeting their TMDL objectives through stream restoration practices that:

  1. Prevent channel or bank erosion that would otherwise result in sediment being delivered downstream – prevented sediment approach,
  2. Include design features that promote denitrification during base flow – in-stream denitrification approach and/or,
  3. Reconnect stream channels to their floodplains for a wide range of storm events – floodplain reconnection

On Monday, May 13, 2013 the final recommendations were accepted by the Water Quality Goal Implementation Team – the final step in the review process of urban BMPs. Since that date, three revisions have been approved by the Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (WQGIT) after test-driven results.

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