Over the past several decades, Lick Run, a tributary to the Roanoke River, has experienced heavy stream bank erosion and vertical incision as a result of urban hydrologic flow. The Roanoke River is listed by the Virginia DEQ as impaired, due in part to the health of its macro-benthic community. One of the possible stressors on benthic macroinvertebrates is sediment, so the goal of this project is to reduce sediment loads in this section of Lick Run, in turn reducing sediment entering the Roanoke River. The project design will include efforts to restore several different features of the channel which will ultimately restore the macro-benthic community of both the creek and river.
Location
Lick Run emerges from a pipe and runs through Booker T. Washington Park on Orange Ave. in Roanoke, VA