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Evaluation of Receiving Water Improvements from Stream Restoration (Accotink Creek, Fairfax City, VA)
Citation:
SELVAKUMAR, A., T. OCONNOR, AND S. Struck. Evaluation of Receiving Water Improvements from Stream Restoration (Accotink Creek, Fairfax City, VA). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-08/110 (NTIS PB2009-100892), 2008.
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Description:
Installation of best management practices (BMPs) in watersheds or streams is widely used as a means of reducing, eliminating, or controlling the input of human-based physical, chemical, or hydrologic stressors to those systems. Although BMPs may be effective in managing a particular stressor, installation of stream bank and channel restoration alone may not fully restore nor fully protect the biological condition of the receiving waterbody since multiple stressors are known to affect aquatic biota.