A Low Cost Brush Deflection System for Bank Stabilization and Revegetation

Mary Elizabeth Meyer

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A Low Cost Brush Deflection System for Bank Stabilization and Revegetation

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Mary Elizabeth Meyer

Year:

1989

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Abell, Dana L., Technical Coordinator. 1989. Proceedings of the California Riparian Systems Conference: protection, management, and restoration for the 1990s; 1988 September 22-24; Davis, CA. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-110. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; p. 424-427

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Abstract

A series of brush deflectors were installed along an eroding, undercut streambank on Lindo Channel in Chico, California. Pieces of brush were wired to sets of metal fenceposts driven into the bank perpendicular to stream flow and at strategic points upstream. Dormant cuttings of riparian plants were added for revegetation and long-term bank protection. To date (two years deployment), the system has stopped erosion.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the California riparian systems conference: protection, management, and restoration for the 1990s; 1988 September 22-24; Davis, CA.

Citation

Meyer, Mary Elizabeth. 1989. A Low Cost Brush Deflection System for Bank Stabilization and Revegetation. In: Abell, Dana L., Technical Coordinator. 1989. Proceedings of the California Riparian Systems Conference: protection, management, and restoration for the 1990s; 1988 September 22-24; Davis, CA. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-110. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; p. 424-427