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• <br />• <br />• <br />43 Rice Creek Sites <br />4.3.1 Existing Conditions <br />The Rice Creek Watershed District and Emmons & Olivier Resources Inc. <br />completed a re- meander and restoration of a significant reach of Rice Creek. The <br />project was entirely within Rice Creek North Regional Park and includes a stretch <br />of Rice Creek located between County Road J, Lexington Avenue and County <br />Road I. <br />The goal of the project was to restore the historical winding flow path and <br />surrounding wetland hydrology for this reach of stream, which was originally <br />straightened in the early 1900's. Many benefits of this project, such as habitat <br />enhancement, water quality improvement and enriched recreation opportunities, <br />have already begun to be realized. While two of the SHEP sampling sites are titled <br />`Above' and `Below' for descriptive purposes, both sites are within the boundaries <br />of the restoration. The monitoring sites were selected at the beginning and end of <br />the restoration in part to gauge the long -term stream health changes that result <br />from this restoration activity. <br />A third site, Rice Creek Irondale', was introduced in 2012 further downstream of <br />the restoration area. <br />4.3.2 Site Map <br />Below are maps of the three 2012 Rice Creek sampling locations. The pins <br />correspond to the midpoint of the sampled stream reach. Each stream reach <br />sampled is referred to as the `sampling site' for the purposes of this report. <br />2012 Rice Creek Above' and `Below' Sampling Locations <br />