An Advanced Stream Restoration Design Workshop is slated for Nov. 27-29 at the Upper Trinity Regional Water District, 900 N. Kealy St. in Lewisville, Texas.
"This will be a comprehensive workshop addressing various aspects of stream restoration design, including how streams impact urbanization, stream assessment, legal issues, and a review of salient case studies," says David Waidler, workshop coordinator and research associate with Texas A&M AgriLife Research at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Dallas.
Waidler says the workshop builds on an entry-level stream restoration workshop previously offered and is intended for engineers, city officials, and those who have completed initial training in stream processes and assessment.
GO WITH FLOW. An Advanced Stream Restoration Design Workshop will be held Nov. 27-29 in Lewisville, Texas. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo
"This workshop takes a hands-on approach to stream surveying by taking participants to evaluate a degraded stream segment," Waidler says. "Using this information, we will explore the existing design options and their respective strengths and weaknesses."
Workshop sign-in begins at 8 a.m. on Nov. 27, with presentations to follow at 8:45 a.m. The day's topics, to be presented by Fouad Jaber, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service state specialist in biological and agricultural engineering at Dallas, include a review of stream processes, hydraulics and hydrology, stream survey methodology, and hands-on and "boots-in" stream survey field work.