@ RESTORE - Streamflow alteration assessments to support bay and estuary restoration in the Gulf States

Human alteration of waterways has impacted the minimum and maximum streamflows in more than 86% of monitored streams nationally and may be the primary cause for ecological impairment in river and stream ecosystems. Restoration of freshwater inflows can positively affect shellfish, fisheries, habitat, and water quality in streams, rivers, and estuaries. Increasingly, state and local decision-makers and federal agencies are turning their attention to the restoration of flows as part of a holistic approach to restoring water quality and habitat and to protecting and replenishing living coastal and marine resources and the livelihoods that depend on them. Personnel in the Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center have been working to [...]