River engineering
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River engineering is a discipline of civil engineering which studies human intervention in the course, characteristics, or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit. People
The Los Angeles River is extensively channelized with concrete embankments.
The Mississippi River basin is the largest in the United States
Flood control structures at the Thames Barrier in London.
An early large channelization was performed by Johann Gottfried Tulla on the Upper Rhine
Stream restoration
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Stream restoration or river restoration, also sometimes referred to as river reclamation, is work conducted to improve the environmental health of a river or stream, in support of biodiversity, recrea
Robinson Creek in Boonville, California, had highly eroded stream banks prior to initiation of a stream restoration project.
Robinson Creek restoration project (2005) included re-shaping of stream-bank slopes, addition of live willow plants and large, rock baffles, removal of invasive species and revegetation with indigenous species.
Cross-vanes
Boulder step pools installed in Rock Creek, Washington, D.C. The pools raise the water level and allow fish to swim over a partially-submerged sewer pipe which crosses the creek.