Pheasant Branch Creek Rootwad Stabilization Project

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Pheasant Branch Creek Rootwad Stabilization
Project
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Pre-Project View Downstream
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Pre-Project View Upstream
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Design Parameters

• Economic Cost per LF comparable to stone.
• Ecological
• Addresses key habitat impairments.
• Local materials
• Structural Withstand Bankfull or Higher Flow
  Events
• Hydraulic Promote sedimentation and scour where
  desired
• Construction Considerations for training and
  equipment.
• Adapted from Shields, Morin, and Cooper. 2004.
  Large Woody Debris Structures for Sand Bed
  Channels. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. Pg.
  209.

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Rootwad w/ 5x7 notebook
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Rootwad Install
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Rootwad Install
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Slope Grading/Native Seeding/Stabilization
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Post Project Floodplain and Slopes Cleared of
Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
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Early October 2007 Post Construction
May 2007
Late October 2007 1st Bankfull Event
January 2008
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Project Accomplishments

• Stabilization of 75 LF of severely eroded
  streambank.
• Aquatic habitat enhancement through use of woody
  debris.
• Riparian enhancement through clearing of 1 Ac of
  common buckthorn and re-planting/seeding of
  native species.