StreamWatch Land Use Study

2011-2004. A Virginia-based organization has released a series of reports on streams and land use. Beginning in spring 2007, StreamWatch set out to study relationships between land use, stream habitat, and stream biology in the Rivanna River basin. For more than two years, they collected stream organisms and habitat data at 51 sites. StreamWatch compared these data with land use. For their findings and reports, click here.

Pocket Guide to Eastern Streams (8/11)

Model Ordinances for Regulating Wetlands and Riparian Habitats/Stream Buffers

by Jon Kusler, Esq., ASWM (12/09)
The goal of this paper is to help communities protect and restore vulnerable wetlands and related riparian ecosystems by adopting or upgrading regulations. a

To dowload this paper in PDF, click here.

New Handbook Helps Local Governments Protect Streams

EPA Region 3 Envirobytes, 10/18/02. The University of Virginia's Institute for Environmental Negotiation has produced a new book, “A Stream Corridor Protection Strategy for Local Governments.” The handbook is designed to help implement many facets of the Chesapeake 2000 agreement. In particular, the handbook aims to protect forested stream buffers and development of local watershed plans. It describes how to devise an effective stream protection strategy, provide tools such as the use of zoning to protect local streams, give case studies of successful projects and how to engage the local community.

To download handbook, click here or to view in PDF format, click here.

Stream Restoration: A Natural Channel Design Handbook

by the NC State University – Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources – 2003