PROJECTS AT DESIGN COURSE SITES

1. Eastern Canada:  Dickson Brook Restoration, Fundy National Park (planning 2012)

The plank walls and gabion baskets of this channelized stream running through the Fundy National Park golf course collapsed and were replaced several times as the bed eroded in the narrowed channel . Between 2004 and 2009 they were replaced with a natural width pool and riffle stepped channel by the Fundy Park "stream team".  For further information contact Jane.Watts@pc.gc.ca

last try: natural steam dimensions with a reduced gradient

2. Western Canada: Okanagan River Dyke Setback and Re-Meandering (October 2011)

The Okanagan River was dyked and straightened over 50 years ago, dramatically reducing the spawning reaches for Columbia River sockeye and chinook salmon. A design to set back the dykes in a kilometer long pilot reach, re-connect the meanders and improve the main stem spawning velocities was developed with the Okanagan First Nations. The setback dyke was completed in 2008 and the phase one channel re-construction in 2009 by Mould Engineering, Kelowna. For further information contact Karilyn Long Alex, Okanagan First Nations Fisheries (klong@sylix.org).

re-connected meander pools

re-constructed entrance to the old Lougheed meander

improved spawning platform constructed in the main stem

air photo: Kevin Dunn, river photos: C. Rivard-Sirois