Restoration Measures Sample Clauses

Restoration Measures. In rivers most measures target the morphology of the stream stretch or the instream habitats. Few only are related to reduction of nutrient input. On the contrary, in lakes the most common measure targeted is the reduction of nutrient levels, especially phosphate. For acidification of streams and lakes, xxxxxx is commonly used in some countries (e.g. Sweden) for mitigating the effects of acidification, while decreased emission and deposition of acidifying compounds is a more cost-effective, long-term measure of remediation. Measures are not often taken directly in estuarine and coastal waters, these much more relate to measures taken inland through legislation on nutrient reduction. These observations supported our initial hypothesis that “at a catchment scale, nutrient stress affecting functional (production/decomposition) processes will be more important in lakes and marine systems, while hydromorphological stress affecting habitat availability will be more important in rivers”. Recovery: Data availability and processing In rivers and lakes a substantial amount of monitoring data are available. In estuarine and coastal waters such data are scarce. Despite the number of monitored recovery cases, each one seems to stand alone, as monitoring schemes were set-up for local situations and to answer partial questions. By contrast, for acidification xxxxxx efforts often target individual lakes or streams, but even large-scale xxxxxx of catchments has been performed. Furthermore, in many, many cases data on recovery just lack and this is quite alarming! Not only is the amount of available data surprisingly low, the composition of the available data is often very limited and does not allow the evaluation and generalisations of improvements and eventually of successes. The huge investments in recovery of surface waters require control of the ecological effects. Therefore, restoration monitoring should become mandatory. Only by frequent monitoring of biological and abiotic changes after restoration will restoration practitioners and scientist be able to evaluate the success of the restoration measure and eventually of the investment done.

Restoration Measures. CDFW understands that this Project is a critical component to the MDERP, which will substantially improve the aquatic habitat between the Matilija Dam to the Pacific Ocean. Further, the eventual removal of the Matilija Dam will increase fish passage by approximately 17 miles upstream of the facility. This Project, as proposed, will improve aquatic habitat by widening the riverbed by approximately 80 feet. However, the gain of aquatic habitat will result in the temporary loss of 1.79 acres of riparian habitat, which must be mitigated via the Mitigation Creation and Restoration Plan.

Restoration Measures