Tag: watersheds
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September 2026 Knowledge Series: EWN Practice Guide for Floodplain Benching Projects
Eddie Brauer & Joanna Curran, PhD, US Army Corps of Engineers Research & Development Center Restoration and nature-based solutions are increasingly recognized as sustainable infrastructure, yet practitioners charged with delivering them often lack the design criteria and procedures that are routine for conventional “gray” infrastructure. Technical guidance for natural infrastructure (NI) remains limited in both…
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SWCA: Restoring the Plainwell Channel
Once a driving force of industrial growth in the early 1900s, the Plainwell Dam on Michigan’s Kalamazoo River had, over time, become an obstacle to ecological health. Its aging structure trapped sediment, blocked fish passage, and disrupted the river’s natural flow. Today, through the Plainwell Dam Removal and Channel Restoration project, SWCA Environmental Consultants is…
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August 2025 Knowledge Series: Life Depends on Rivers: Building a Movement to Protect and Restore America’s Rivers
Jenny Hoffner and Eileen Shader, CFM, American Rivers Rivers are essential to all life on earth, but our rivers are at risk as never before from climate change, pollution, drought, flooding, and loss of natural habitat. American Rivers is championing a national effort to protect and restore all rivers, from remote mountain streams to urban…
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Colorado River Connectivity Channel: Discover how AECOM’s work on the Colorado River Connectivity Channel (CRCC) is balancing water resource management with environmental conservation
The Colorado River Connectivity Channel (CRCC) is restoring the lifeline of the Southwest while balancing water supply needs and environmental health. Spanning 1,450 miles and serving over 40 million people, the river supports communities, ecosystems, and economies across seven U.S. states and two in Mexico. Built in the 1980s, the Windy Gap Reservoir met critical…
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EDF: Navigating federal flood planning
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) just released a new step-by-step guide to help communities and advocates navigate federal flood planning. Flooding, the nation’s costliest disaster, impacts local communities on the coasts and in cities, towns and inland areas alike, and more frequent and severe weather events are prompting communities and local entities to seek lasting solutions.…
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Conference Recap: City of Austin WPD at SFS 2025
Team members from Austin, Texas’ Watershed Protection Department were delighted to attend the Society of Freshwater Science conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico in May 2025. Here’s a quick recap: Angel Santiago presented our latest results on modeling sediment and water quality in Austin. The modeling mimics conditions under storm and base flow and was…
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River Dynamics and Sturgeon Habitat: Dynamic Solutions and ERDC Publications
Dynamic Solutions has completed numerous studies for the US Army Corps of Engineers on the Mississippi River that serve the purposes of navigation and flood control paired with ecosystem sustainability. We are proud that two of these studies were published in the esteemed collection of Mississippi River Geomorphology and Potamology technical reports. Dynamic Solutions performed…
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Experts meet to discuss Wetland Restoration in Mannington Meadows, NJ
Representatives from the University of Georgia, Ducks Unlimited, USACE, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), USFWS, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, New Jersey Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Conserve Wildlife NJ, and NOAA on Monday, July 22 to discuss plans for the restoration of the eroded Mannington Meadows marsh complex and the ongoing restoration of…
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Levee setbacks have a lot of potential co-benefits. How can we maximize them?
In a new paper published this month in WIREs Water, a team including partners from the University of Georgia Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and US Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature® program review the myriad of benefits that have been associated with an increasingly popular nature-based solution: levee setbacks. A levee is an…
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Nature at Work: Not-so-plain Floodplains
Rivers have influence far beyond their banks. Many rivers naturally have spaces around them known as floodplains. This month’s edition of Nature At Work is all about these fascinating freshwater features. You might have noticed the water level in your local river getting higher after heavy rain, and lower after several days of no rain–the…