Mt. Hebron     The Ashbrook Drive Stream Restoration was recently completed. 

• a good example of the complete destruction of an ecosystem
• loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in home values
• ruined the back yards of many homes
• could have been a dry pond which would have provided better/longer remediation of pollutants
• go to 9387 Carrie Way, Ellicott City, MD to park at construction entrance to this project

​Failed Restorations

​​To people that are not familiar with stream restorations, these pictures may not seem so shocking. The problem is that these streams today look like they probably looked before the restoration with heavily eroded stream banks. Besides all the habitat destruction, the restoration has had the opposite effect than what they intended. They moved significant amounts of earth to shape the stream banks so that they would gently slope into the stream and all that dirt has washed downstream to the bay. Before the county did this stream restoration they should have put in storm water management ponds upstream. 

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Failed Little Patuxent Stream Restoration

Failed Font Hill Stream Restoration

Southview Road Restoration in Valley Mede 
(Unnamed East Tributary of Plumtree Branch)

This stream starts at Saint Johns Lane up near route 70 and comes down into the concrete lined swale between the divided section of roadway of North Chatham Road.