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The Straight Creek site is relatively large and includes many objectives for restoration and conservation including:
Restore degraded perennial, intermittent, and ephemeral streams to a stable system that exhibits low streambank erosion, minimal vertical instability, increased habitat for aquatic organisms, minimal floodplain erosion, and streambanks and streamside areas vegetated with forbs, grasses, trees, and shrubs.
Perform grading work to reverse the hydrologic modifications made to the site and re-establish the streams in an appropriate geomorphic location with a meandering pattern and appropriate channel dimensions, creating a stable and self-sustaining stream system.
Increase in-stream habitat through the addition of riffles and other structures.
Perform specific floodplain grading to ensure regular overbanking, while minimizing the potential for flows to follow historic anthropogenic channels and creating floodplain instabilities.
Planting site specific, native vegetation on the streambanks and throughout the riparian corridor.
Protection of the mitigation area through recordation of Declaration of Restrictive Covenants for Conservation.
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