This workshop will introduce the methodologies and procedures for initiating, planning, analyzing, and ultimately designing long-term sustainable river and stream stabilization, or restoration projects. Innovative, environmentally sensitive, and cost-effective approaches to restoration will be discussed. Comprehensive case studies will be presented. Rain gear, boots, and field clothes are recommended for the field trips.
Specific goals of this workshop include:
- Develop a philosophy of bank & bed stabilization design that emphasizes an understanding of the stream as a complex inter-related system that encompasses both local and system-wide processes and problems.
- Understand how to develop appropriate project goals.
- Apply concepts of the Channel Evolution Model (CEM), & apply regime theory to assist in developing grade control systems
- Learn about innovative bank protection methods and how to choose the appropriate method or combination of techniques.
- Discuss the importance of project constructability, monitoring, and maintenance
- Learn how to read a stream and analyze stream bed & bank erosion with an experienced practitioner.
- Perform a series of in-the-field site analyses, understanding the role of project goals in the development of conceptual flow analyses, and designing stabilization plans that relate to project performance goals.
DAY 1 | |
7:45 – 8:00 | SIGN-IN |
8:00 – 8:15 | INTRODUCTIONS / WORKSHOP OVERVIEW |
8:15 – 9:40 | POTOMOLOGY & DERRICK’S PROJECT PHILOSOPHY
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9:40 – 9:55 | BREAK |
9:55 – 12:00 | Channel Evolution Model (CEM), Headcut Video from Hartman Ditch, & Environmentally Compatible Grade Control – Derrick |
12:00 – 1:00 | LUNCH |
1:00 – 2:45 | RESISTIVE & CONTINUOUS BANK STABILIZATION METHODS
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2:45 – 3:00 | BREAK |
3:00 – 4:20 | BIOENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY & PLANTING VEGETATION WITH LARGE YELLOW MACHINES
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Day 1 (Continued) | |
4:20 – 4:30 | WRAP-UP / FIELD INFORMATION FOR TUESDAY |
5:30 – 8:30 | OPTIONAL ICE-BREAKER / DINNER (Location TBD) |
Day 2 | |
8:00 – 8:10 | Meet at Classroom |
8:10 – 9:00 | Introduction to Six Points Stream Relocation Project – Rachele Baker |
9:00 – 9:20 | Bathroom break & get ready for field trip |
9:20 – 9:45 | Travel to field site |
9:45 – 12:00 | FIELD TRIP – Six Points Project – East Fork White Lick Creek |
12:00 – 1:00 | LUNCH |
FIELD TRIP – Six Points Project – East Fork White Lick Creek (Second field site may be added closer to workshop start date). | |
4:00 – 4:30 | Travel back to classroom |
Day 3 | |
8:00 – 10:00 | REDIRECTIVE METHODS
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10:00 – 10:15 | BREAK |
10:15 – 10:35 | Stream Access Techniques & Ideas |
10:35 – 12:00 | HOW TO CONDUCT A FIELD INVESTIGATION
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12:00 – 1:00 | LUNCH |
1:00 – 1:45 | RECENTLY DEVELOPED INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES
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1:45 – 2:00 | BREAK |
2:00-3:00 | CASE STUDIES
Guadalupe River – Willows Planted when it was 103 Degrees |
3:00 – 3:45 | PROPRIETARY METHODS |
Day 3 (continued) | |
3:45 – 4:15 | Dave’s Top 10 – 46 Ways to Stay Out of Trouble! |
4:15 – 4:30 | PROJECT CONSTRUCTION |
4:30 – 4:40 | COURSE WRAP-UP |
Dave Derrick
Potomologist, Stream Stabilization Specialist, & VP for 20 years with River Research & Design, Inc., Vicksburg, MS. Mr. Derrick retired with 35+ years of experience as a Research Hydraulic Engineer with the Corps of Engineers. Dave has worked in 49 states teaching, designing, & building projects, ranging in size from the Mississippi River to small farm ditches. Dave has also invented several environmental uplift techniques including Half-Drowned Bushes, Wrong Way Boil-up Pools, Living Dikes, Hydraulic Cover Stones, Slant T Angle Slams, “Missing Tooth” Stone Transverse bars; “Roof Rocks, Locked Logs, “Squeezers”, and “Dense Fibrous Root Replication.” Dave has conducted USACE Proponent Sponsored Engineer Corps Training (PROSPECT) Course #285 “Streambank Erosion & Protection” and was a co-developer and instructor for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Course “An Introduction to Stream Investigation, Stabilization, & Restoration.”