floodplain restoration
Floodplains are critical aquatic habitats for Salmon, extensively modified by Beaver. Floodplains have been severely modified for Transportation Networks and Agriculture and Flood Hazard Management resulting in loss of Biodiversity changes to Hydrology and Hydrodynamics reduction of the Channel Migration Zone loss of Riparian Buffers and reduction of Water Quality. Floodplain Restoration involves a variety of management measures, specifically Revegetation, River Levee and Armor Removal, removal of Infrastructure and construction of Engineered Log Jams, with or without Fluvial Channel Reconstruction. In addition Dam Removal and modification of regulated hydrology can have dramatic effects on floodplain processes. All these processes and practices occur under Climate Change which is anticipated to alter hydrology. This work is supported by different kinds of Puget Sound Ecosystem Funding.
Relationships
- broader: floodplain
- related to: :category:restoration
- related to: Beaver
- related to: Flood Hazard Review, No Rise, and Letters of Map Revision
- related to: agriculture
- related to: biodiversity
- related to: cereghino 2015 working buffers info sheet
- related to: channel structure
- related to: climate change;legal
- related to: dam removal
- related to: engineered log jams
- related to: floodplain management
- related to: floodplain
- related to: fluvial channel reconstruction
- related to: governance
- related to: hydrodynamics
- related to: hydrology
- related to: infrastructure
- related to: integrated floodplain management
- related to: prism
- related to: psnerp
- related to: puget sound acquisition and restoration
- related to: revegetation
- related to: riparian buffers
- related to: river delta;beach;embayment
- related to: salmon
- related to: transportation networks
- related to: washington state department of ecology
- related to: water quality
- related to: Lower Skykomish Floodplain
- related to: Lower Snohomish River Floodplain
- related to: Lower Stillaguamish Floodplain
- related to: North Fork Stillaguamish Floodplain
- related to: puyallup-white
- related to: American Rivers
- related to: Federal Emergency Management Agency
- related to: Floodplains Local and Regional Exchange
- related to: NOAA Restoration Center
- related to: Washington State Department of Natural Resources
- related to: Conservation Using Acquisition
- related to: Continuous Improvement
- related to: Coordinated Investment
- related to: Fisher Slough Restoration
- related to: Flood Control Assistance Account Program (FCAAP)
- related to: Flood Hazard and Ecosystem Management Coordination
- related to: Floodplain Permit Streamlining Workgroup for Nooksack
- related to: Integrated Nearshore Priorities Project
- related to: Lower Skykomish Floodplain Land Strategy
- related to: Port Susan Restoration
- related to: Puget Sound Marine Riparian Mapping
- related to: Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project
- related to: Riverscape Commons Mapping
- related to: Stillaguamish Delta Dynamics Affecting Restoration
- related to: Three Crabs Restoration