Restoration Design 356
Victoria Steigerwald
Restoration Design Group (RDG) engages with clients and landscapes to plan\nand design meaningful places that foster healthy communities and ecosystems. As a small firm of landscape\narchitects, planners, and scientists, we are dedicated to providing exemplary\nconsulting services and the highest level of principal involvement. Our portfolio covers a broad range of successful\npublic projects. This depth of\nexperience has served our clients well in their pursuit of project excellence.
Restoration Design Group (RDG) engages with clients and landscapes to planand design meaningful places that foster healthy communities and ecosystems. As a small firm of landscapearchitects, planners, and scientists, we are dedicated to providing exemplaryconsulting services and the highest level of principal involvement. Our portfolio covers a broad range of successfulpublic projects. This depth ofexperience has served our clients well in their pursuit of project excellence.
The Porsche 356 is a luxury sports car which was first produced by Austrian company Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH (1948-1949), and then by German company Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH (1950-1965). It was Porsche's first production automobile. Earlier cars designed by the Austrian company include Cisitalia Grand Prix race car, the Volkswagen Beetle, and Auto Union Grand Prix cars.
The 356 is a lightweight and nimble-handling, rear-engine, rear-wheel drive, two-door available both in hardtop coupe and open configurations. Engineering innovations continued during the years of manufacture, contributing to its motorsports success and popularity. Production started in 1948 at Gmnd, Austria, where approximately 50 cars were built. In 1950 the factory relocated to Zuffenhausen, Germany, and general production of the 356 continued until April 1965, well after the replacement model 911 made its autumn 1963 debut. Of the 76,000 originally produced, approximately half survive.
The Low-Tech Process Based Restoration of Riverscapes Design Manual is organized into a series of chapters, each with its own page(s). Each chapter has its own citation and DOI, so that it is citable individually and can be updated and re-published without the entire design manual being re-issued. The recommended citation for the entire manual is:
The design manual and Pocket Guide are available digitally for free thanks to the generous investments and support from our sponsors. Moreover, after the virtual training in August 2020, all the introductory workshop modules are now available free here for self-paced learning.
After tons of research over the past several months, I haven't had any luck finding any courses, videos or materials for applying Civil3D tools specifically to create a natural stream design. I'm wondering if anyone has any useful tips or hidden resources or even classes that are available that they would recommend!
I have taken several courses on natural stream design and know how to collect field data and apply it to design -- I just need help with finding the best techniques to use Civil3D to create a planset with grading plans, cross sections, and the like for a design stream.
There is also the River and Floodplain Analysis Module that you can add to Civil 3D if you have access.
I don't have much experience with it, but if you are doing similar projects in the future, it might be worth looking into.
Optionally you might also have a plan sheet showing planting.
If you're placing any large woody debris, you might need a separate sheet for that, or you could include that in the proposed grading.
Here are a few random resources that might also be useful:
(River Restoration Professional Certificate Core Course 4) Recent research has found that many river restoration designs fail because they were created to achieve a preconceived notion of the ideal form and function of the stream without recognizing the dynamic processes at work in that watershed. Others fail due to lack of sound alternatives analysis and fundamental engineering. The most successful rely on a fusion of stream mechanics knowledge and progressive design techniques. This approach establishes and supports those stream processes that create and maintain channel form and associated habitats.
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As coral restoration efforts continue to increase in size and number, there is an overwhelming need for information for scientific input into restoration spatial planning and siting, defining restoration success, and evaluation of progress toward successfully meeting restoration goals. Meaningful, consistent, comparable, and quantitative data are required to quantify the changes that result from restoration actions.
NCCOS is also contributing to spatial planning for restoration siting. We use a geospatial approach that includes spatial data management and visualization (e.g., Dashboards), habitat mapping, and application of predictive species models.
We work with multiple partners who represent managers, restoration practitioners, and scientists to create a collaborative community. These include the Coral Restoration Consortium, the NOAA Restoration Center, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, and many others.
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This work provides a scientific framework for designing and implementing coral restoration and for evaluating the success of restoration. Incorporating of sound science into restoration will help improve restoration efficiency, effectiveness, and likelihood of success. This is critical to efforts to scale up coral reef restorations to large enough sizes to 1) improve coral reef ecosystem health, 2) improve the status of threatened coral populations, and 3) to provide coastal protection from waves and storms.
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The Mendota Grassman Greenway project is underway! This winter the contractor worked on grading the greenway and building the sanitary maintenance access paths. As sections of the greenway were graded, a restoration contractor put down native seed and erosion matting to hold the soil in place. Later this spring trees and shrubs will be planted. The final sections of the greenway that are adjacent to the culverts on Camelot Dr and University Ave will be graded and restored with native seed and matting following the installation of the culverts. Until then, water will pool in the greenway behind the culverts. Once the culverts are installed the greenway should flow more efficiently to the lake.
In response to the damage incurred, as well as the likely increasing frequency of such events due to global climate change, the Madison Common Council authorized the City of Madison Engineering Division (City Engineering) to develop watershed models and plans for watersheds of greatest concern in the Madison area. The redesign of this greenway system is a solution resulting from of one of these studies.
There are a number of points of contact during this project where the public is encouraged to give feedback as part of public information meetings and public hearings. Dates, times and locations are indicated below:
*Note: Registering to speak is only necessary for Common Council and Board of Public Works Meetings. You do not need to register to speak at Public Information Meetings. Simply attend with registration, and you'll have an opportunity to share feedback and ask questions.
Construction in the greenway is underway. The contractor plans to work on grading within the greenway and building the sanitary access paths throughout the winter, as weather allows. The culverts on University Ave and Camelot Dr will be installed in the spring.
The sanitary access paths (mapped below in red) are designed more robustly for our large sanitary vactor trucks to access sewer structures for cleaning. They are gravel and cannot be topped with topsoil. It is important for the City to complete preventative maintenance (sewer cleaning) to reduce the number of sewer back-ups. The sanitary access paths also allows for emergency access which can help control back-up issues if or when they occur.
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