2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
6/08/2017 | 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | TECHNICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR STREAM MITIGATION | 302A
TECHNICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR STREAM MITIGATION
In 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers jointly implemented new regulations aimed in part at assuring more objective ecological performance standards (i.e. success criteria) for wetland and stream mitigation projects undertaken pursuant to Section 404 of the federal Clean Water Act. Since 2008, at least 1,300 kilometers of compensatory stream mitigation have been approved in the United States. Despite the rapid growth in both the number of stream and river restoration projects and the total monetary expenditures related to them, published literature on the efficacy of stream restoration projects remains largely critical and programmatic reviews of stream mitigation nearly nonexistent. In addition, biological monitoring and success criteria used across the country remain fragmented and inconsistent. This presentation will highlight trends in the compensatory mitigation program and summarize both technical and programmatic factors contributing to the need for targeted, collaborative research to identify short-term biological monitoring and success criteria for stream mitigation.
- C16 Restoration Ecology
- C34 Science and Policy
- S26 Biological Success Criteria for Stream Restoration Project Monitoring: Are We Still Searching for Unicorns?
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Eric Somerville
(), US EPA, Region 4, somerville.eric@epa.gov;
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