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Portage Watershed NPS-IS 2018 Willowick ECWC presentation, 5 Apr 2018 Roy Larick, PhD Bluestone Heights

Wickliffe

City of Euclid

Cleveland

Richmond N Heights

South Euclid Portage Escarpment Watershed NPS-IS 2018

Euclid Creek

US EPA Non-Point Source control W’shed Action Plan 2005 Nine-Element Plan 2018

N Portage Escarpment Watershed NPS-IS 2018 Green Creek Lilly Creek Babbitt Run Burk Run Salt Run historical courses

US EPA Non-Point Source control Nine-Element Plan 2018

N Portage Escarpment Watershed NPS-IS 2018 Willowick

Wickliffe current courses (integrated into the storm sewer system)

Cleveland

Richmond N Heights

South Euclid Portage Escarpment Watershed NPS-IS 2018

two critical areas

N Babbitt Briardale

Burk terrace

Burk moraine

Lilly terrace Terrace Wetland east Lilly Critical Area terrace Feature Function/Integrity N west T11 Burk terrace wetland (8 acres) E2 Knott Pond wetland (1X acre)

open watercourses and hardwood forest

23000 Euclid Ave

E 260th

Amazon bioretention (1.85 acre)

T8 Tungsten Playground wetland (1 acre) Escarpment Ravine Critical Area Headwater Habitat Streamflow Chemistry N Green Creek Escarpment Ravine Euclid Railroad railbed Green Creek Escarpment Ravine erosion, deposition & trash Green Creek Escarpment Ravine modeling residential parcel runoff Green Creek as Green Infrastructure Larick & Kovalcik

20 Acres/999 Trees -18 tons of Carbon -357 k gal Stormwater -$12,000 value Euclid Escarpment Forest Band

400 Acres -360 tons of Carbon -7 M gal Stormwater -$240,000 value Euclid Escarpment Forest Band

conservation resources

Cities of Euclid and Richmond Heights

Western Reserve Land Conservancy

Central Basin Watershed Collaborative 200 consulting hours for 2018 Chagrinto Riverbring Watershedin: Partners Healthy Watersheds Consortium grant 2018 West Creek Conservancy Healthy Watersheds NortheastConsortium grant Regional 2018 Sewer District Watershed Partner Service Agreement 2017-18 Hillandale 68 acres of ravines, wetlands and woodlands

Wickliffe

Euclid

Richmond Hts

Prov Miss Bapt Ch (2 parcels) City of Euclid (6 parcels) Local resident (4 parcels) Hillandale Park Tremaine Hillandale bridge 68 acres of ravines, wetlands and woodlands D F Brush house site C

E-Check parcel B E A

G Escarpment Greater Opportunity Mt Pleasant Euclid F orest B and LakeCounty

I-271 Portage Escarpment Watershed In Conclusion NPS-IS 2018 heights Critical Area Strategies escarpment (hill)

terrace Escarpment Ravines plain Conserve woodlands Terrace Wetlands Stabilize slopes Enhance Buffers Restore streambeds Reforest

escarpment ravine Restore stream inflows surface stream buried stream storm sewer wetland

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