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Knapps Creek Watershed Project 24

Knapps Creek has had long term channel stability and stream bank erosion problems. The NRCS, along with several partners, recently completed the first demonstration phase of the first stream restoration project of its kind in West Virginia. The project provides a stable channel, eliminates or reduces the damage to and loss of farmland caused by stream bank erosion and sedimentation, improves aquatic habitat, and provides a cleaner source of drinking water for Marlinton.

Channel improvements include construction of meanders, riffles, pools, and riparian wetlands in about a half mile of stream. Banks are protected with rock vanes, root wads, transplanted trees, fiber matting, seeding, and mulching.

Partners in the project who have signed the Memorandum of Understanding include the WV Conservation Agency, the Greenbrier Valley Conservation District, the US Forest Service, and the Canaan Valley Institute. Other partners who have provided technical assistance and grant money are WV Department of Environmental Protection and US Fish and Wildlife Service.

 

Photo of equipment transplanting vegetation

Woody vegetation was transplanted. Note root wads in right foreground (Photo A Feher)

 

Before, during, and after photos. Note the foot bridge in photos.
Photo before restoration Photo during restoration Photo: After

May 10, 2004.

July 20, 2004
installing rock vanes.

September 22


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