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Johnson Creek Project

Client: The Wysox Creek Watershed Association

The photos are of a 2,600’ restoration completed this spring on Johnson Creek in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.  It is located between the Northeast Bradford County High School and Elementary School.  The purpose of the project is to stabilize a large bank failure, severe bank erosion, and handle a large sediment load from up stream sources.  The project utilizes several aspects of Natural channel Design.  Some of the aspects used were rock vanes, log vanes, and step pools.  By the spring of 2006 this site can be seen live on three web cams.

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Levitz Park

Client: East Hanover Township

Project was completed this spring in East Hanover County, PA in Levitz Park.  This project restored and improved habitat of a 495ft. stretch of stream.  This project utilized natural channel design concepts including log and rock vanes.  This project will be utilized as a training site for Natural Channel Design Principles for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

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Wyalusing Creek Restoration Project

Client: Wyalusing Borough in North Central Pennsylvania

This is an ongoing project which is currently permitted. Temporary measure will be implemented fall of 2005, prior to restoration. The final restoration goals on Wyalusing Creek are to stabilize banks, increase channel capacity, improve habitat, and reestablish the sediment carrying capacity of this particular section of stream The Client is Wyalusing Borough in North Central Pennsylvania. Other project partners include Taylor Excel Corporation. This section of Wyalusing Creek was historically impacted by a mill and large quantities of sediment from upstream which have overloaded the system and decreased the channels capacity causing the stream to cut several new side channels.

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Big Spring Creek Geomorphic Assessment

Client: Cumberland Valley Chapter, Trout Unlimited & Federation of Fly Fishers

The Watershed is 12.2 square mile watershed that was historically impacted by several mills, 2 fish hatcheries and other human impacts. The Assessment looks at several aspects from in stream impacts to the surrounding land uses and the historic impacts. This is a Geomorphic Assessment completed for The Big Spring Creek Watershed in south central PA.

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