RES2019-04: Advancing Urban Stream Restoration/Enhancement Practices for Compensatory Mitigation Credits

The purpose of the project are to: 1) improve ecohydraulic design methodologies for urban stream restoration/enhancement that are more cost effective, 2) construct a stream restoration project in Knox County in order to assess improved design protocols to maximize functional lift calculations in the Tennessee Stream Quantitative Tool (TN-SQT) and assess the economics of project implementation in urban streams for compensatory mitigation, and 3) provide a training course for TDOT staff on the new design methods for urban stream restoration and the input requirements for the TN-SQT.The following are expected outcomes of this research project: • Improving urban stream restoration design approaches that are also cost-effective. • Demonstrating the expected gain in functional lift from urban stream restoration/enhancement projects, creating new mitigation credit markets.

• Record URL:
  https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tdot/long-range-planning/research/researchsummary/RES2019-04%20Summary%20Advancing%20Urban%20Stream%20Restoration.pdf
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Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $150,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  RES2019-04

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Tennessee Department of Transportation

  James K. Polk Building
  Fifth and Deaderick Street
  Nashville, TN  United States  37243-0349

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Tennessee Department of Transportation

  James K. Polk Building
  Fifth and Deaderick Street
  Nashville, TN  United States  37243-0349
• Project Managers:

  Purnell, Paul

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Center for Transportation Research
  Conference Center Building
  Knoxville, TN  United States  37996-4133
• Principal Investigators:

  Schwartz, John

• Start Date: 20181201
• Expected Completion Date: 20220531
• Actual Completion Date: 20240531
• USDOT Program: Transportation, Planning, Research, and Development

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design practices; Restoration ecology; Stream restoration
• Subject Areas: Environment; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01709921
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Tennessee Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: RES2019-04
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Jul 2 2019 10:33AM