Stream Project Summaries (NC DWR)
Research Projects Focused on Streams
EPA Wetland Program Development Grants have funded the NC Division of Water Resources to conduct research studies on streams as well as wetlands. Many important findings have been made. Below are links to final reports for these projects.
Stream Restoration and Urban Streams
Reassessing Criteria for Impaired Urban Waters and Stream Restorations
Ecological Functions of Restored Stream Systems: Benthic Macroinvertebrates
Final Report Addendum (after further post-construction sampling) – 2004
Defining Limits for Small Stream Biological Criteria for Use in Stream Restoration Monitoring
Impacts of Small Impoundments
Assessing Abiotic and Biotic Impacts Due to Small Impoundments in North Carolina to Support 401 Certification Policies
Assessing Biological Impacts to Streams Due to Small Impoundments in NC to Support 401 Certification Policies
Significant Nexus Research
Documenting a Significant Nexus to Navigable Waters in the Southeast
Presentation to the Southeast Water Pollution Biologists Association – 2011
Presentation to the North American Benthological Society – 2012
Stream Buffers
Correlating stream biology with buffer quality
Macroinvertebrates in Intermittent Streams
Development of Policy for Protection of Intermittent Streams through the 401 Water Quality Certification Program (Aquatic life in ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial stream reaches)
Coastal Streams
Aquatic Life in Ephemeral, Intermittent and Perennial Streams in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina
These projects were funded through multiple EPA Wetland Program Development Grants.