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Presented at the NABS Annual meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2002
in Bioassessment
3 RIVERS - 2ND NATURE: AN ECOLOGICAL BASELINE FOR ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PA.
T. Collins1, G. Reiko1, S. Kalisz2, K. Knauer3, M. Koryak4, R. Kyshakevych5, B. McCartney6, R. Pinkham7, H. Prellwitz5, and L.J. Stafford4. 1STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Rm 111, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213, 2Departemnt of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, 3ALCOSAN, 3300 Preble Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15233, 4US Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, 1817 W.S. Moorehead Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, 5Allegheny Geo Quest, 5021 Bayard St., Pittsburgh, PA 15221, 6Beth McCartney GIS, 3 Rivers Wet Weather Inc., 3901 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15224, 7Richard Pinkham COnsultant, West 56th Place, Arvada, CO
3 Rivers - 2nd Nature, is a five year program that seeks to establish a regional baseline understanding of the rivers, banks and streams of Allegheny County. The project is interdisciplinary with project teams working on water: physical and chemical indicators, pathogens and benthic organisms, banks: botany/biodiversity and geology, and a GIS based stream restoration and day-lighting analysis. The objective is simply to assess current conditions, integrate the results through GIS analysis and identify sites for preservation, conservation and restoration.
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