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08/19/2009

Road Repair

Work begins!  Starting July 20th, implementation work began!  No more surveying in preparation, but the real stuff...

First on the list: Repair a terribly eroding and non-functional gravel road that isSeg3_xdrn inhibiting us from hauling the donated rock we received from Mountain Valley Water Company.  Mountain Valley Water Company has approximately 1200 relatively undisturbed acres in the watershed.  This piece of land houses three of their operating springs utilized for bottled water.  Mtn. Valley property is approximately 5 driving miles from the restoration site and 2.5 miles "as the crow flies".  Mountain Valley Water has generously donated the available rock throughout various locations across their property to the restoration project.  Through an additional appropriation of funds from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, we were able to address critical drainage issues that were washing away portions of the access road and continually carrying road sediment to Coleman Creek, a tributary to the Middle Fork Saline River, or as I like to use another catch phrase "killing two birds with one stone".  We have reduced sediment to the river and paved the gravel way towards successfully 100_6673 harvesting the donated rock!  See before and after shots...above is a picture of where water continuously overflows the road during rain events.  This section of road was in need of a crossdrain, bad!  Picture below shows the crossdrain following installation.  A relatively easy fix for such a big problem!  See photo album of "Week 1 & 2" for more pictures.

 The restoration of Coleman Creek Road included the following tasks:  installation of two shallow pipe crossdrains, sloping the road appropriately while creating a headwall at the inlet of the pipes;  grading road and spreading approximately 1450 cubic yards of road fill as needed through the estimated 2,800 feet of road repair, sloping road appropriately and compacting road fill with a smooth drum roller machine.  This part of the project was successfully completed in five days!  Simultaneously, TNC staff and volunteers were completing the construction of barbed wire fence on the cattle farm side of the river in preparation for construction activities on Phase I restoration. 

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Final Photos

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Kayaking The Site

  • Melissa on the second J-Hook
    The site is finished and beautiful! Check us out as we kayak over the six structures.

Tree Planting

  • Joy planting
    We restored 32 acres of riparian and floodplain area and excluded approximately 200 head of cattle from the stream. We planted close to 6,500 native seedlingss and about 75 larger native trees throughout the areas from which we excluded cattle.

Ponds

  • Pond II
    In conjunction with excluding cattle from the stream, alternative water sources were created on either side of the stream. Each pond is within a fenced in area and includes a spillway, which will direct water to natural creeks in the event of rain.

Phase II: Final Bend

  • Looking upstream at the final structure of Bend III
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Phase II: Bend II

  • Final shots: upstream to bend II
    This album contains Bend II: the insertion of two J-Hooks, re-routing of the channel, and bioengineering.

Storing Livestakes

  • Racks of livestakes ready for the cooler
    We ordered roughly 17,000 livestakes for the remainder of Phase I and all of Phase II. Here are a few photos showing you how we're able to store such a large shipment, thanks to the Arkansas Forestry Commission.

September Rains

  • looking downstream from the Cross-vane
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Phase I: Bend I

  • Lb ds 2 new JH
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Barbed Wire Fence Construction

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Harvest & Deliver Rock

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    Pictures taken of the rock we harvested and delivered to our site for the in-stream structures.

Pre-Project Pictures

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    Here are some before pictures of the project site during various phases of assessment including the two-year assessment by The Nature Conservancy as well as photos of biological inventory conducted in partnership with the University of Central Arkansas.

Post Project Maintenance

  • Bend 1 - Outside bank after post-flood maintenance