About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Rapid, Tributary, River delta, Braided river, Daylighting, Lotic ecosystem, Riparian zone restoration, Meander, Drainage basin, Stream, French drain, Trench drain, Stream restoration, Point bar, Source, Avulsion, Ford, Subterranean river, Drainage system, Chalk stream, River bifurcation, Channel, Thalweg, Arroyo, Urban stream, Drainage divide, Channel types, Aggradation, Stream bed, Anabranch, Plunge pool, Misfit stream, Playfair's Law, Fluvial landforms of streams, Stream gradient, Degradation, Riffle-pool sequence, Bank, Creek, River morphology, Rheophile, Burn, Hyporheic zone, Stream pool, Braid bar, Mouth bar, Tinaja, Main stem, Hack's law, Debouch, Reach, Relief ratio, Alluvial river, Stream channel, Current, Groundwater flow, Gill, Convergent flow, Rythe. Excerpt: In urban design and urban planning, daylighting is the redirection of a stream into an above-ground channel. Typically, the goal is to restore a stream of water to a more natural state. Daylighting is intended to improve the riparian environment for a stream which had been previously diverted into a culvert, pipe, or a drainage system. The term also refers to the public process toward such projects. A general consensus has developed that protecting and restoring natural creeks' functions is achievable over time in an urban environment while recognizing the importance of property rights. Natural Drainage Systems (NDS) are stormwater management features that include infiltration and slowing of stormwater flow, filtering and bioremediation of pollutants by soils and plants, reducing impervious surfaces, using porous paving, increasing vegetation, and improving related pedestrian amenities. Natural features-open, vegetated swales, stormwater cascades, and small wetland ponds-mimic the functions of nature lost to urbanization. At the heart are plants, tre...
