This course is intended primarily for civil engineers, hydraulic engineers, hydrologists, and geologists. Someone completing this course will gain knowledge about stream channel evaluation and stream channel restoration procedures.

In this course, you need to review the material in the course content file, consisting of the document, "Stream Restoration - A Natural Channel Design Handbook," prepared by the North Carolina Stream Restoration Institute and North Carolina Sea Grant. Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of forty (40) questions to earn 7 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the student will be familiar with:

• an introduction to fluvial processes

• stream assessment and survey procedures

• Rosgen stream classification systems

• bankfull verification and gage station analyses

• priority options for restoring incised streams

• reference reach surveys

• design procedures

• structures for stream restoration

• riparian-buffer re-establishment

• erosion and sediment control plans

• flood studies

• restoration evaluation and monitoring