Robinson Creek Restoration Project

 
 
Robinson Creek experienced eroding streambanks and an unstable stream channel as well as an impaired/reduced habitat.

Robinson Creek experienced eroding streambanks and an unstable stream channel as well as an impaired/reduced habitat.

Robinson Creek

Tributary of the French Broad River
Watershed – Newfound Creek Watershed
Buncombe County, Fletcher, NC
Status: Complete 
Stream Restored: ~1,650 feet

Partners:

Resource Concern/Issues:

Robinson Creek experienced eroding streambanks and an unstable stream channel as well as an impaired/reduced habitat.

The Robinson Creek project employed several Natural Channel Design techniques.  The project team realigned the channel and excavated the floodplain.  They also installed log j-hook vanes, toe wood revetments, and cobble riffles.

The Robinson Creek project employed several Natural Channel Design techniques.  The project team realigned the channel and excavated the floodplain.  They also installed log j-hook vanes, toe wood revetments, and cobble riffles.

The project team also created a riparian buffer zone by installing a coir mat, sod, and shrub transplants.

The project team also created a riparian buffer zone by installing a coir mat, sod, and shrub transplants.

Robinson Creek prior to restoration.

Robinson Creek prior to restoration.

Project Objectives:

  • Improve water quality by reducing sediment, nutrient, organic, and inorganic loading of the stream and reduce streambank erosion

  • Stabilize the stream reach to prevent further aggradation or degradation by providing an improved dimension, pattern and/or profile that will improve sediment transport, and manage surface waters and groundwater levels in floodplains, riparian areas, and wetlands

  • Construct rock and woody structures to provide instream habitat, stabilize streambanks and the channel bed

  • Establish a riparian buffer, remove invasive plant species and reestablish native plants, trees, and shrubs