Stream Restoration Improves Water Quality, Play at Lost Nation Golf Course

摘要

Imagine two very different water features. One cuts through neatly trimmed fields with harsh, steep embankments that drop straight to feature-less flat water. Short turf runs flush right to the edge of the ditch. Soil crumbles daily from its undercut banks into a brownish, slow-moving tributary. Now picture the second stream as it meanders through the same manicured fields. Its riparian floodplain slopes gently down over a broad area of colorful, native grasses and woody vegetation to meet rock-enhanced stream banks. Babbling water falls gently past bendway weirs and stream riffle structures, which shore up the banks and provide habitat for aquatic life.