Altimus Farm, Bottom Field phase III is finished !
Look close at these before and after photos.
Pools three feet deep created from the huge submerged boulders in the above right photo.
Overall stream narrowing created by side deflector devices built to norrow and quicken stream flow.
...devices also which make deep hiden runs by narrowing width and concentrating flow energy .
Bank erosion turns into bank building with these devices creating eddies along stream banks allowing sediments to be deposited at stream sides, notice the above photos having boulders in a"J" pattern submerged beyond the point of the in stream log. A deep pool immeadiatly below it is created.
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this outside turn has been severely eroded leaving banks five feet high. Boulder protection and root balls placed between the boulders will provide cover as a channel forms and deepens along the boulder face.
Here is how we do it... First with donating sponsors. This project is funded by NRG Corp., Dominion Energy Foundation, XTO Energy Corp. along with a Pennsylvania Growing Greener Grant
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission habitat impprovement specialists don proper safety equipment as they drive rods 3 feet into the rock stream bottom pinning logs in place.
Yep, all that and more...