Goose Creek/Blue Wildlife: Stream Restoration

Project Manager: Kenneth Williams
Client: The Nature Conservancy
Completion Date: May 6, 2009
Private Contract Duration: November 24, 2008 to May 6, 2009


The Nature Conservancy selected Environmental Quality Resources, LLC and Williamsburg Environmental Group, Inc to re-configure approximately 8,050 linear feet of Bolling Branch and its tributaries, located near Delaplane in Fauquier County, Virginia. Restoration included stabilization of four tributaries that feed into the main channel and the creation of five acres of wetlands within the stream’s flood plain, and 1.5 acres of wetland enhancement.

Excavated soils had to be managed outside the floodplain to reduce the risk of contaminating the downstream channel. Over 3,000 tons of native stone was recycled from local construction projects to create ‘natural’ riffle grade controls. In addition, almost 60 acres of buffer was converted from a tall fescue pasture to a woodland floodplain buffer.