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Restoring Neighborhood Streams

Planning, Design, and Construction

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Ann L. Riley

    1. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oakland, USA

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  • Provides information, guidance, and encouragement for practitioners undertaking stream restoration projects.
  • Written in a reader-friendly narrative style
  • illustrated with technical drawings and photos

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Is The Restoration of Urban Streams Possible?

    • Ann L. Riley
    Pages 1-21

  3. Defining Restoration

    • Ann L. Riley
    Pages 22-52

  4. Neighborhood-Scale Restoration Projects

    • Ann L. Riley
    Pages 53-187

  5. What Neighborhood Projects Teach

    • Ann L. Riley
    Pages 188-254

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 255-268
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About this book

This book presents the author’s thirty years of practical experience managing long-term stream and river restoration projects in heavily degraded urban environments. Riley provides a level of detail only a hands-on design practitioner would know, including insights on project design, institutional and social context of successful projects, and how to avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes. Early chapters clarify terminology and review strategies and techniques from historical schools of restoration thinking. But the heart of the book comprises the chapters containing nine case studies of long-term stream restoration projects in northern California. Although the stories are local, the principles, methods, and tools are universal, and can be applied in almost any city in the world.

Authors and Affiliations

  • San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Oakland, USA

    Ann L. Riley

About the author

Dr. Ann Riley is the executive director of the Waterways Restoration Institute, and watershed and river restoration advisor for the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board. During her twelve-year tenure with the nonprofit WRI, she has organized, planned, designed, constructed, and funded numerous stream-restoration projects in California and throughout the United States. Her involvement and guidance to community-level nonprofits, as well as her work with local, state, and federal agencies in watershed planning, water quality, water conservation, hydrology, flood management , stream science, and restoration, spans four decades. Her commitment to public policy outreach includes a long history of collaboration with citizen organizations to guide federal and state policy, and she has served on committees for the National Academy of Sciences and the John Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment.

In both her private- and public-sector work, she has championed jobs and training for conservation and youth corps. In 1982 she cofounded the Urban Creeks Council in California and in 1993 was instrumental in organizing the first conference of the Coalition to Restore Urban Waters, a national network of urban stream and river organizations. In 1984 she spearheaded a program under the auspices of the California Department of Water Resources that continues today to provide grants supporting urban stream restoration.
Dr. Riley’s work in river restoration is nationally recognized and she has garnered numerous awards over her long career, including an American Rivers award in1993 for her leadership in establishing a national urban river movement, the California Governors’ Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003, and the Salmonid Restoration Federation Restorationist of the Year Award in 2004.

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