🌳FEATURE FRIDAY: Unnamed Tributary to Smith Creek Stream Restoration🌳 On Feature Fridays, we feature PCC’s conservation projects.

Today, we highlight one of PCC’s watershed restoration projects in Wake County, NC. This stream restoration project aims to address severe erosion and sedimentation issues along a degraded tributary within the Neuse River Basin, impacting water quality in both Smith Creek and the Neuse River. The current stream channel exhibits high banks, a low floodplain connection, and significant bank erosion due to an overly wide channel design principles, including creating a floodplain bench and a meandering channel to stabilize banks and improve aquatic habitat. By reestablishing a healthy riparian buffer with native vegetation, the project also helped to enhance water quality and habitat diversity, benefiting the sensitive and impaired downstream waters. - - - #WakeCounty #NorthCarolina #Piedmont #Conservation #NonProfit