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Best Management Practices for
Stream and Corridor
Restoration
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Kings River Watershed
Project 06-500 FY 2006
CWA Section 319 (h)
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Kings River Watershed Partnership * Madison County Conservation District
Carroll County Conservation District * Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Arkansas Natural Resources Commission
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Goals and Objectives
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Demonstrate and document stream restoration practices
to be shared with landowners in order to reduce the
total amount of sediment and associated nutrients
entering the Kings River Watershed.
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A. Geomorphic, chemical and benthic macroinvertebrate
monitoring
B. Education and Outreach
C. Streambank restoration demonstration
Year 2
Year 1
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• Streambank Restoration
• Aquatic
Macroinvertebrate
Monitoring, Event 3 & 4
• Monthly Chemical
Monitoring
• Landowner’s Handbook
• Educational Workshops
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• Geomorphological Survey
• Aquatic
Macroinvertebrate
Monitoring, Event 1 & 2
• Monthly Chemical
Monitoring
• KRWP Website
• Secondary Education
Modules
• Demonstration
Workshops
Survey of Streambank Erosion
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• 85 miles of Kings and Osage
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• 203 sites surveyed using BEHI
• 17.60 miles of eroded streambank
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Dissolved Oxygen
pH
Total Dissolved Solids
Hardness
Phosphate-phosphorus
Alkalinity
Water/Air Temperature
Turbidity
Nitrate-nitrogen
•Monthly testing at 10 sites
•Duplicate sampling twice per year
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Chemical Monitoring
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Benthic Macroinvertebrate Survey
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• Spring & Fall of 2007
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• 10 sites correlating
with chemical
monitoring program
• NAWQA protocol
• Processed and
Identified in laboratory
• Development of ICI
specific to Kings River
KINGS RIVER BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - SPRING 2007 Taxa Richness
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Taxa Richness generally increases with improving water quality, habitat diversity, or habitat suitability
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Hwy 74 Bridge Marshall Ford
Rockhouse
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MAINSTEM (Upper to Lower)
Above Osage
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Stoney Point
Dry Fork
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Keel's Creek
TRIBUTARIES (Upper to Lower)
Lower Osage
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KINGS RIVER BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - SPRING 2007 EPT Richness
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Marshall Ford
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Above Osage
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Stoney Point
Dry Fork
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Keel's Creek
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January 2008
Educational Workshops
April 07
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Education for Kids
Section 1
• Ownership & Public Use
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Property & Stream Modifications
Onsite Waste Treatment Systems
Floodplain Development
Wildlife Regulations
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Section 3
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• Understanding the Stream Corridor
• Historical Changes
• Creatures of the Kings
• The Dirt on Dirt
• I Thought Nutrients Were Good
For You?
• Water Quality on the Kings
Section 4
• Riparian Buffers
• Restoring Riparian Buffer to Reduce
Erosion
• Engineered Streambank Restoration
• Financial & Technical Resources
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First High Water Event
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The Sky is the Limit