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Description:
Title:
NOAA ARRA USVI Watershed Stabilization Project. Coral Bay Watershed Management Project : Calabash Boom drainage improvements
Alternate Title:
NOAA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Coral Bay Watershed Management Project
Calabash Boom drainage improvements
Author(s):
Reed, Patricia
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Virgin Islands Resource Conservation & Development Council
Coral Bay Community Council
Corporate Name:
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Virgin Islands Resource Conservation & Development Council
Coral Bay Community Council
Dates of Publication:
2012
Abstract:
The Calabash Boom Drainage Basin contains two main ghuts that drain an uphill residential area with a steep, primarily unpaved road. Road grading modifications shifted some of the stormwater runoff to an adjacent ghut resulting in greater stormwater flows in this ghut. Additionally, construction of a housing complex in the Calabash Boom alluvial plain reduced its ability to clean sediment and infiltrate ghut flows from the surrounding hills. These actions plus erosion from the unpaved road increased sediment loads to Johnson Bay beginning in 2006, threatening coral reef habitat (Photos 1-3). The goal of this project is to stabilize an unpaved road and construct additional sediment and erosion control best management practices (BMPs); thereby, reducing sediment entering Johnson Bay"--Executive summary.
Keywords:
Coral reef conservation
Coral reefs and islands
Effect of human beings on
Effect of water pollution on
Environmental aspects
Management
Marine habitats
Sewage
Storm sewers
Watersheds
Place Keywords:
United States Virgin Islands
Saint John
Local Corporate Name:
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Type of Resource:
Professional Paper
Note:
The Calabash Boom Drainage Basin contains two main ghuts that drain an uphill residential area with a steep, primarily unpaved road. Road grading modifications shifted some of the stormwater runoff to an adjacent ghut resulting in greater stormwater flows in this ghut. Additionally, construction of a housing complex in the Calabash Boom alluvial plain reduced its ability to clean sediment and infiltrate ghut flows from the surrounding hills. These actions plus erosion from the unpaved road increased sediment loads to Johnson Bay beginning in 2006, threatening coral reef habitat (Photos 1-3). The goal of this project is to stabilize an unpaved road and construct additional sediment and erosion control best management practices (BMPs); thereby, reducing sediment entering Johnson Bay"--Executive summary.
2012
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Library
Public Domain
1858
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