Prioritizing Stream Restoration Projects in the City of Roanoke: Peters Creek Case Study

The City of Roanoke (City) is currently evaluating potential stream restoration projects to achieve several watershed goals, including meeting total maximum daily load (TMDL) requirements, mitigating floods, recovering ecological function, and transforming the Roanoke River into a community asset. The City retained Virginia Tech (VT) researchers to develop a stream reach prioritization methodology to help maximize watershed benefits for funds spent on stream restoration. The overall project goal was to develop a prioritization process for stream restoration projects and to apply this process to one watershed as a case study (Peters Creek). Using the results of this case study, the methodology will be further adapted to apply to all City watersheds...