PRE-PROJECT CONDITIONS AT MONKEY RUN
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MONKEY RUN , ARCADE, NY.
HISTORIC RAILROAD
PROTECTION & DEMONSTRATION
PROJECT, 41 METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN COMBINATION
This project was funded by the Great Lakes Commission, through the Seneca Trail Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc. and
implemented with the assistance of the Wyoming County Soil & Water Conservation District
Alleghany Ecological ServicesU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
NYS DEC Region 9Cattaraugus County Soil & Water Conservation District
NRCS Area Office, Batavia, NY
Attica and Arcade Historic Railroad
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PRE-PROJECT CONDITIONS AT MONKEY RUN
• Stream has been straightened in mid-1800’s (railroad), & 1959, & 1965 (NY State Highway Dept.)
• Stream is incised (disconnected from the flood plain)
• Active knickpoints (headcuts) throughout the system
• Stream is shallow and overwidened.
• We turned 2 bends and one crossing into 6 bends and 5 crossings. The grade control structures consist of a 3-log Log Digger, a 6-log Log Aerator-riffle, one Engineered Rock Riffle, two Solid-Sill Engineered Rock Riffles, and one Adjustable Random-Boulder Rocked Riffle
From the air, flow is left to right, 5/18/2005, YELLOW IS NEW CHANNEL ALIGNMENT
Pix by Derrick
From the air, flow is left to right, 5/18/2005, WHERE THE NEW CHANNEL SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOCATED–BUT THE BYPASS CHANNEL WAS PUT
IN THE WRONG PLACE, THINK AHEAD !!
Pix by Derrick
THE PROJECT
Construction Oct 25-Nov 11, 2004
In addition to protecting the railroad at two sites, we will replace two bends and one
crossing with 6 bends and 5 crossings (riffles)
Log Outer-Bank Bend Protection with Living Retard
& Solid-Sill Engineered Rock
Riffle (Bend #1 and Riffle #1 in the Monkey Run realigned
channel, Arcade, NY, constructed Oct-Nov 2004)
Looking US at Pool #1, log revetment in place and anchored
with duckbill anchors
Backfilling behind log revetment in Pool #1. Logs are designed to be undercut and act as LUNKERS
TRANSPLANTED LIVING WILLOW RETARDS
MONKEY RUN STREAM REALIGNMENT PROJECT, ARCADE, NY {rural, gravel-cobble, straightened three times,
re-meandered during project, incised}
• THINK BIG!!!! THINK INSTANT!!!• Transplanting an entire big clump of
willows (roots and all) a track hoe bucket (4 ft wide) at a time
• Multi-function, used to weigh down bank protection and provide bank protection, shade, cover, insect habitat, etc
Backfilling behind log revetment in Pool #1. Logs are designed to be undercut and act as LUNKERS
Mini case study: 1 of 7
Grab a scoop of willows
Mini case study: 2 of 7
Place them on the outer bank.
Looking US in Bend 1. Mini case study: 3 of 7
Get some more willows
Mini case study: 4 of 7
More willows
Mini case study: 5 of 7
Looking US. Skilled track hoe operator has managed to orient willows out over pre-dug pool. The entire transplanting operation took about 20 minutes
Mini case study: 6 of 7
Looking US at Living Willow Retard two growing seasons after planting Aug 24, 2006
Pix by Derrick
Mini case study: 7 of 7
Looking US at Living Willow Retard at beginning of the third growing season after planting-June 14, 2007
Pix by Derrick
The next 5 slides are looking
downstream thru the same bend,
Bend #1.
Looking DS at the flow cut-off structure on LDB & into constructed Bends 1 and 2 -Nov 2004
Nov 5, 2004. It took approx. 20 minutes to place the entire Living Willow Retard, if I were a fish I would be……..
……. swimming under the overhanging veg!!! Aug 24, 2006. Looking DS at Living
Willow Retard on left bank in Bend #1
Pix by Derrick
After two growing seasons, Aug 24, 2006. Looking DS at Living Willow Retard on left
bank in Bend #1
Pix by Derrick
Bend #2 “BioD-Block” Coir Block System
• Proprietary method, introduced 2003
• An easier way to construct encapsulated earth-filled system of lifts
• Locked Logs and/or Locked Limbs can be integrated between underwater lifts
• Vegetation can be integrated between emergent lifts
• Living Retards/Living Dikes can be placed on top of the BioD-Blocks
Display booth at IECA conference, Philly PA., Feb 2004
Looking DS at Pre-dug Pool #2, BioD-Block material in foreground
Looking DS at BioD-Block, ready for
willow retard installation on top of coir logs Nov 5, 2004
Fred Kelly cutting Locked Limbs and
Locked Logs for that pre-formed pool in
the previous picture
After two years, looking at Locked Limbs & Locked Logs in Bend #2, Monkey Run. Aug 24, 2006
Pix by Derrick
Two years later, looking DS at BioD-Block bank, Aug 24, 2006
Pix by Derrick
Nov 5, 2004. Looking DS, at engineered solid-sill rocked riffle #1, then Bend #2 with BioD-Block coir bank protection (single 16 inch lift) with
some black willow (tall light-colored branches)
After two growing seasons, Aug 24, 2006. Looking DS at rocked riffle and Bio-D Block in Bend 2. Willows on left bank in Bend 1 and outer bank of Bend 2 were planted. Pointbar of Bend 2 is transplanted creeping bent grass
Pix by Derrick
TRANSPLANT A LITTLE BITTY
CLUMP OF STUFF MONKEY RUN,
ARCADE, NYMini case study: 1 of 5
Looking DS. Creeping bent grass sod transplantation to define channel width-Nov 5, 2006
Mini case study: 2 of 5
Aug 24, 2006. Looking DS at Bend #2, note
nice growth on pointbar
Pix by DerrickMini case study: 3 of 5
Aug 24, 2006. Looking DS at the Bend #2 pointbar
Pix by DerrickMini case study: 4 of 5
Aug 24, 2006. Great diversity & shallow areas on the pointbar. Almost a hemi-wetland!!!!
Pix by DerrickMini case study: 5 of 5
The UB class pulling non-biodegradable netting out of Monkey Run. Aug 24, 2006
Pix by Paul Fuhrmann
Freeing several dozen trapped crawfish from the
non-biodegradable netting at Monkey Run-Aug 24, 2006
Pix by Paul Fuhrmann
When regulatory is happy…
And the designers are confused…. Only then is the project complete………