OPEN (WS4) Streambank Erosion Control Alternatives: Planning, Evaluation and Design Overview

Presenters:

Frank Reckendorf

Barry Southerland

(7 hours)

Streambank erosion evaluations, causes, and solutions are all complex and controversial subjects. This workshop will present an overview of a river reach approach in a watershed context of: (1) what is streambank erosion: (2) how can rates of streambank erosion be evaluated; (3) what are the causes of streambank erosion; (4) what are the ways to identify active streambank erosion; (5) what techniques and fluvial geomorphic data are needed to evaluate a streambank erosion problem; (6) what are a reasonable range of alternative treatments, including doing nothing, and what are the field conditions where various alternative conditions are applicable; (7) what fluvial geomorphic conditions are critical to the decision to design a treatment; and (8) what kind of monitoring should be done to determine success or failure of the action. The workshop is for watershed professionals doing stream evaluation and design work and for watershed professionals that do regulatory work to show what are reasonable and applicable data collection for stream work.

The workshop will be on Sept. 27th from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm with short breaks and an hour for lunch. The morning session will focus mainly on planning and evaluation with some design information. The afternoon will focus on analysis, alternatives, and implementation. The participants will receive a binder with handouts concerning some of the presentation material; a SERNW Design to Dirt CD, on subjects that will not be discussed in detail; and a CD of presentations that will be mailed out after the workshop.

Instructors:

Frank Reckendorf (e-mail), PhD. CEG in OR, CG in WA. Fluvial Geomorphologist, Reckendorf and Associates, Salem, OR. Dr. Reckendorf was the Fluvial Geomorphologist for the SCS, West National Technical Center, and has accumulated 48 years of experience working with thousands of different reaches of streams and floodplains. He has done watershed and stream assessment and design for streambank stabilization, stream habitat rehabilitation, and meander reconstruction. He has been an expert witness for many legal cases, and is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Geology Department at Portland State.

Barry Southerland (e-mail), PhD. Fluvial Geomorphologist, USDA NRCS West National Technical Support Center. Dr. Southerland has worked in geomorphologic analysis, planning, and designs since 1990. He has contributed toward the design and implementation watershed studies, stream restorations, and meander reconstructions. He has 27 years of natural resource science experience. He has authored several watershed management plans and large-scale geomorphic restoration plans.

2007 CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

See below for re-opened workshops, they are filling fast!

(Workshops are 3.5 hours unless otherwise indicated)
Note: There is a is a $50 fee for any workshop or field trip you wish to attend. This fee is in addition to the conference registration fee. You can make your workshop and field trip selections on the conference registration page. If you do not plan to attend the conference and will attend ONLY a workshop and/or field trip you will be required to pay a $50 workshop registration fee in addition to the workshop or field trip fee.

FULL - extra spaces pending approval (WS3) Pioneering Mitigation Banking in the Northwest

Presenters:
Dana Field - Dept of State Lands Oregon
Gretchen Lux - Department of Ecology Washington
Bill Leonard - Washington Department of Transportation
Bill Warncke - Oregon Department of Transportation
Victor Woodward & Jennifer Thomas - Habitat Bank
David Primozich - Willamette Partnership
Gail Terzi - USACE-Seattle District

Mitigation banking promises many opportunities to provide upfront measurable mitigation for wetlands, endangered species habitat, water quality, stream banks, etc.  Mitigation banks can offer more effective and continuous long term ecosystem restoration than tradition mitigation methods.  It also offers a real economic opportunity to restore marginal lands that may otherwise be developed with much higher natural resource impacts.  On the other hand, defining how banking is conducted will determine its real success both financially and in terms of on the ground results.  This workshop offers innovative approaches and lessons learned from some of the pioneering mitigation banking efforts in Washington and Oregon.  Each presenter will share their experiences in mitigation banking efforts focusing on the challenges of defining accounting methods, success criteria, long term stewardship, and other issues.  There will be a question and answer session and real examples of Northwest mitigation banking.

OPEN (WS8) Regional Supplements to the 1987 Wetlands Delineation Manual

Presenters:
Jim Goudzwaard, Corps of Engineers, Portland District
Tina Teed, Corps of Engineers, Portland District
Janet Morlan, Oregon Dept. of State Lands
Kathy Verble, Oregon Dept. of State Lands
Ron Raney, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Portland
Bill Kirchner, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Portland

(7 hours)

As of January 2007, the Arid West Supplement to the 1987 Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual must be used in the arid regions of the PNW for Corps of Engineers and Oregon Department of State Lands permits.  The Western Mountains, Valleys and Coast supplement (covering the remainder of our region) will also be required as soon as the "Interim" draft is completed--likely early next year.  The supplements contain many new or different field indicators and also new procedures.  This workshop will provide an overview of the supplements, stressing the main changes, and we will go over the changes that are most likely to be more difficult or confusing.  The workshop presentation will presume that participants are already very familiar with wetland delineation procedures using the 1987 manual.  Participants will receive a copy of the supplements.  All of the presenters participated in the working groups developing the supplements and/or the field testing of the draft supplements.