Stream Restoration

About the Program

Category: County Resiliency (Best in Category)

Year: 2010

Prince William County Watershed management, the Prince William County Park Authority, and Angler Environmental have entered to a public/private partnership to create, operate, and maintain an Environmental Mitigation bank which will provide major benefits to streams, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay, as well as all parties involved. The partnership will reverse the outflow of County monies to areas outside the County and provide a means to restore miles of stream corridors in the County at no expense to Prince William County. Environmental stewardship, watershed management, storm water management, stream restoration, and water quality protection are all topics of increasing concern at all levels of government. With than in mind, Prince William County undertook a County wide stream assessment study in 2002 which was completed in 2006. In that major, four year effort, 327 miles of stream corridors were assessed in all ten of the County’s watersheds. This study documented and prioritized a large number of issues such as stream bank erosion, sediment build-up, stream obstructions, dump sites, threatened water and sewer infrastructure, habitat conditions, and insufficient stream buffers.