pre-project conditions at monkey run

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


Place them on the outer bank.

Looking US in Bend 1. Mini case study: 3 of 7

Get some more willows


More willows


Looking US. Skilled track hoe operator has managed to orient willows out over pre-dug pool. The entire transplanting operation took about 20 minutes


Looking US at Living Willow Retard two growing seasons after planting Aug 24, 2006

Pix by Derrick


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


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


Aug 24, 2006. Great diversity & shallow areas on the pointbar. Almost a hemi-wetland!!!!


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………

pre-project conditions at monkey run

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