Complete Written Planning & Design Report of Low-Tech Project

Due Apr 15, 2021 by 11pm
Points 150
Submitting a website url or a file upload
File Types pdf

You have already been working on the design and planning report as a Google Doc. Refer to that assignment for the section headings.

Below, you should have already started/finished things in Grey, completed things in Green, and need to focus on finishing what is in orange as well as completing earlier sections.

Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
- Background of Birch Creek and Diamondback Wilde Ranch (i.e. synopsis of LECTURE: Watch Birch Creek - Part I)
- Problem (see slide 15 in Part 2 Lecture (Links to an external site.))
- Purpose of Restoration Project
Project Site Description & Scope (i.e. synthesis of LECTURE: Watch Birch Creek Project - Part 2, but ideally with your own maps)
Methods - Low-Tech PBR & Conservation Planning Process (i.e. a brief review and citation of Chapter 3 and 5 of LTPBR Manual (Links to an external site.))
CPP - Planning
- Problems & Opportunities
  - Broad Management Goals
  - Assessment of Structural Starvation and Appropriateness of Low-Tech
- Project Objectives
- Inventory of Resources (Links to an external site.)
  - Valley Bottom Mapping
  - Identified Risks within & Adjacent to Riverscape
  - Risk vs. Opportunity Assessment
- Resource Analysis
  - Assessment of Current Conditions and Recovery Potential
    - Geomorphic Condition
      - Identification of pathways of recovery
      - Flow Regimes ability to "Do the Work" of Restoration
    - Riparian Condition to support Process of Wood Accumulation
    - Riparian Condition Capacity to support Process of Beaver Dam Activity
CPP - Design
- Overall Project Plan - Identify based on condition and recovery potential assessment the reaches of riverscape, and map by primary "complex objective". In your case, your design only needs to apply to 2 of 5 reaches (see video).
  - Design Objectives - Separately describe the generic complex objective types include in this design phase (without digressing into specific complex designs), and articulate with respect to Cluer & Thorne (2013) riverscape evolution model. Describe how this design fits into making progress towards overall recovery potential, and how many phases you anticipate it might take to reach recovery potential
- Individual Complex Designs
  - Complex 1
    - Complex Design - Full page Design map of complex with structure locations (as structure crest polylines), structure types, zones of influence (i.e. design hypotheses).
    - Complex Narrative - Articulate what the overall design is, what specifically you expect to happen in low flows, moderate flows and high flows, and how your zone of influence for the complex reflects progress towards the complex objectives and eventually full recovery potential
    - Complex Summary - Describe the bottom line of this complex in terms of a structure table for the complex, and metrics of use (i.e. re-visit what you expect to happen in this complex to the indicators from the planning phase immediately following construction, after 1-2 typical floods and after a big flood.
  - Complex 2 - Repeat above as many times as you have complexes
  - etc.
- Typical Structure Types - Show structure schematics for all structure types proposed in complex designs and minimal text to explain context in which they are used (i.e. typical specific structure type design hypotheses). This prevents you from having to map out and explain an individual structure design for each structure.
- Design Synthesis - In the same way you did for each structure
CPP - Implementation Recommendations(detail to follow)
- Phase 1 Implementation - Describe logistical recommendations, rough quantity estimates, etc. as it relates to constructing phase 1.
- Anticipated Additional Phases - Describe how many additional phases might be necessary.
As-Built for Phase 1 (to follow)
Summary
References