Extra Credit Project #2a Water Issues on the Palouse ARCH 464 ECS

Due: Thursday, April 25 at 11:20 a.m. 

For this extra credit document your Paradise Creek and Wetlands tour and subsequent research.  If you miss the tour, you can follow the map for a self-guided tour. Record the site conditions with annotated photos or sketches and write an answers to at least 3 of the questions below. 

Note: Use Google "Wayback Machine" to access these two archival sites! A description of the Sweet Avenue Restoration Project is available on the PCEI web site http://www.pcei.org/water/restoration.htm and information about the 2009-2010 Paradise Creek Ecosystem and Stadium Drive Extension project is at http://www.uidaho.edu/facilities/ae/paradisecreek. The photo archive (see box on upper left of web page) is especially helpful in understanding the project.

Questions:

1. Explore this site and its methods for water treatment. Does it mitigate storm water runoff? Explain how, when, where and to what extent it accomplishes this mitigation on the restored section from Sweet Avenue to Perimeter Drive.
   
2. What has been done to stabilize the creek bank and to what extent has stabilization been accomplished? 
   
3. What are the biological treatments that have been implemented to purify water before it enters Paradise Creek? 
   
4. From looking at this site can you determine what the environmental objectives were and what water issues have been addressed? List at least five objectives and/or issues and speculate which ones have been accomplished.
   
5. Identify the structures constructed to address water issues on this site. Are they adequate and/or appropriate? 
   
6. What considerations and accommodations have been made for assuring ecological restoration?
   
7. Compare the Sweet Avenue project to the parking lot design for the Portland Water Pollution Control Lab project. How are the approaches similar and dissimilar?
   

Format: 8½" x 11"

NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED