Restoration trajectories of stream ecosystems degraded by urban stormwater runoff: a large-scale experiment in urban hydrology and stream ecology

Dispersed Urban-Stormwater Control Improved Stream Water Quality in a Catchment-Scale Experiment

Christopher J Walsh, Moss Imberger, Matthew J Burns, Darren G Bos, Tim D Fletcher

2022-12-01

Traditional urban drainage degrades receiving waters. Alternative approaches have potential to protect downstream waters, but wide..

Q(c) threshold departs from theoretical Q(c) in urban watersheds: The role of streambed mobility data in managing the urban disturbance regime

Robert J Hawley, Kathryn L Russell, Lindsay J Olinde

2022-09-01

The threshold discharge (Qc) for streambed mobilization is both biologically and geomorphically relevant to stream ecosystems. Exc..

Restoring geomorphic integrity in urban streams via mechanistically-based storm water management: minimizing excess sediment transport capacity

Robert J Hawley, Kathryn Russell, Kristine Taniguchi-Quan

2022-04-04

Stream channel erosion, enlargement, and habitat degradation are ubiquitous in urban watersheds with conventional stormwater manag..

Linking stormwater control performance to stream ecosystem outcomes: Incorporating a performance metric into effective imperviousness

Christopher J Walsh, Matthew J Burns, Tim D Fletcher, Darren G Bos, Peter Poelsma, Joshphar Kunapo, Moss Imberger

2022-02-15

<jats:p>Stormwater control measures, such as raingardens, tanks, or wetlands, are often employed to mitigate the deleterious effec..

Private assets for public benefit: the challenge of long-term management of domestic rainwater tanks

Darren G Bos

2021-01-01

This study explored the relationship private landowners have with their domestic rainwater tank and how that relationship influenc..

The hydrologic, water quality and flow regime performance of a bioretention basin in Melbourne, Australia

Jeremie Bonneau, Tim D Fletcher, Justin F Costelloe, Peter J Poelsma, Robert B James, Matthew J Burns

2020-05-28

To restore streams degraded by urbanisation, bioretention basins (‘raingardens’) are implemented worldwide to reduce stormwater vo..

How urban stormwater regimes drive geomorphic degradation of receiving streams

Kathryn L Russell, Geoff J Vietz, Tim D Fletcher

2020-01-13

For streams draining urban catchments, sediment transport capacity is the key driver of physical impacts including bed sediment re..

Where does infiltrated stormwater go? Interactions with vegetation and subsurface anthropogenic features

Jeremie Bonneau, Tim D Fletcher, Justin F Costelloe, Peter J Poelsma, Robert B James, Matthew J Burns

2018-12-01

The practice of stormwater infiltration is widely used to reduce the amount of urban stormwater runoff delivered to drainage syste..

Urban catchment runoff increases bedload sediment yield and particle size in stream channels

Kathryn L Russell, Geoff J Vietz, Tim D Fletcher

2018-09-01

Physical degradation of urban rivers negatively impacts the environmental and social values they provide, and imposes significant ..

The impact of urbanization on subsurface flow paths - A paired-catchment isotopic study

Jeremie Bonneau, Matthew J Burns, Tim D Fletcher, Roman Witt, Russell N Drysdale, Justin F Costelloe

2018-06-01

Urbanization disturbs groundwater flow through the sealing of native soils with impervious surfaces and through modifications to t..

Variability in stream ecosystem response to urbanization: Unraveling the influences of physiography and urban land and water management

Christopher J Walsh, Tim D Fletcher, Geoff J Vietz

2016-10-01

The geomorphic and ecological degradation of streams resulting from urbanization is well recognized. Recent reviews have hypothesi..

Variability in the response of amphipods and macroinvertebrate assemblage structure to prolonged drought in forested upland streams

Samantha J Imberger, Christopher J Walsh, Edward Tsyrlin, David G Kerr, Monica Tewman

2016-07-01

With climate change set to increase the frequency and severity of drought in many parts of the world, there is a need to better un..

Urban hydrogeomorphology and the urban stream syndrome: Treating the symptoms and causes of geomorphic change

Geoff J Vietz, Christopher J Walsh, Tim D Fletcher

2016-06-01

The urban stream syndrome is an almost universal physical and ecological response of streams to catchment urbanization. Altered ch..

Principles for urban stormwater management to protect stream ecosystems

Christopher J Walsh, Derek B Booth, Matthew J Burns, Tim D Fletcher, Rebecca L Hale, Lan N Hoang, Grant Livingston, Megan A Rippy, Allison H Roy, Mateo Scoggins, Angela Wallace

2016-03-01

Urban stormwater runoff is a critical source of degradation to stream ecosystems globally. Despite broad appreciation by stream ec..

More than money: how multiple factors influence householder participation in at-source stormwater management

Helen L Brown, Darren G Bos, Christopher J Walsh, Tim D Fletcher, Sharyn RossRakesh

2016-01-02

Urban stormwater run-off is a threat to stream ecosystems. New approaches to stormwater management aim to protect urban streams fr..

Hydrologic and water quality responses to catchment-wide implementation of stormwater control measures

MJ BURNS, TD FLETCHER, CJ WALSH, D Bos, SJ Imberger, H Duncan, C Li

2016-01-01

Comment on "Suburban watershed nitrogen retention: Estimating the effectiveness of stormwater management structures" by Koch et al. (Elem Sci Anth 3: 000063, July 2015)

Christopher J Walsh

2015-12-02

I reassess a recent analysis of uncertainty in estimates of nitrogen export from stormwater control measures, using structured exp..

Integrating stormwater management to restore a stream: perspectives from a waterway management authority

Toby Prosser, Peter J Morison, Rhys A Coleman

2015-09-01

Overcoming barriers to community participation in a catchment-scale experiment: building trust and changing behavior

Darren G Bos, Helen L Brown

2015-09-01

Communities have an important role to play in the protection of urban streams, particularly with how stormwater runoff from their ..

Restoring a stream through retention of urban stormwater runoff: a catchment-scale experiment in a social-ecological system

Christopher J Walsh, Tim D Fletcher, Darren G Bos, Samantha J Imberger

2015-09-01

Restoration of ecological structure and function of urban streams probably requires catchment-scale modification of drainage infra..

Protection of stream ecosystems from urban stormwater runoff : The multiple benefits of an ecohydrological approach

Tim D Fletcher, Geoff Vietz, Christopher J Walsh

2014-10-01

There is now widespread recognition of the degrading influence of urban stormwater runoff on stream ecosystems and of the need to ..