Nine Mile Run Watershed Conservation Plan
- Title Page & Index
- Project Area Characteristics
- Location
- Size
- Topography
- Major Tributaries
- Corridor
- Social Economic Profile
- Issues, Concerns, and Constraints
- Urban Ecosystems
- Watershed Management
- Water Quality
- Slag and Toxicity
- Public Access and Use
- Historic and Future Development
- Land Resources
- Soil Characteristics
- Ownership
- Critical Areas
- Landfills
- Hazard Areas
- Water Resources
- Tributaries
- Wetlands
- Floodplain
- Lakes and Ponds
- Water Quality
- Water Supply
- Biological Resources
- Wildlife
- Vegetation
- PNDI Species
- Important Habitats
- Cultural Resources
- Recreation Use
- Recreation Facilities
- Management Options
- Missions and Goals for Greenway Management
- Restoration, Healing, and Ecosystem Regeneration
- General Revegetation Principles
- Management Issues
- Recovery of Riparian Plant Communities
- Regeneration on Slag Species
- Stream Restoration
- Site-based Infiltration in the Upper Watershed
- Watershed Management, Integrating Infrastructure with Ecology
- Enhancement
- Appendices
- Maps
- USGS Pittsburgh Quadrant
- Culverted Streams and Major Tributaries
- Watershed Unemployment
- I-f1b Watershed Income
- I-f1c Watershed Population
- I-f2b Pedestrian Access
- II-d Watershed Priority Focus Areas
- III-c1 Area of Conflicting Value and Use
- III-d Eroded Soil, Deposited Slag
- III-e2 Abandoned Mines and Gas Wells
- IV-b1 Existing Wetlands and Potential Wetland Areas
- IV-b2 Areas of Potential Wetland Regeneration
- IV-e1a Water Quality Testing Points
- IV-c The Flood Plain
- IV-e1b Combined Sewer Outfalls
- V-2 Vegetation Communities
- V-1 Botany Study Areas
- V-d Interior and Upland Forest
- VII-h Stormwater Management: Potential Areas for Infiltration and Detention
- VII-j Sound/Silence
- VII-j2 Experiential Nature/Culture
- Appendix IV
- Water Quality Issues in the Nine Mile Run Watershed
- Appendix V
- V-1 Amphibians and Reptiles in the Nine Mile Run Watershed
- V-3 Birds Recorded for the Nine Mile Run Watershed
- V-4 Insects Documented in the Nine Mile Run Watershed
- V-6 Vascular Plants of the Nine Mile Run Watershed
- V-a1b Benthic Invertebrates and Water Quality
- Appendix VII
- VII-b An Ecosystems Perspective
- VII-c General Revegetation Principles
- VII-d Recreation of Native Tall-Grass Meadows
- VII-d4 Control Measures for Select Invasive Species
- VII-f Regeneration on Slag Slopes
- VII-i Case Studies in Multi-Municipal Watershed Approaches
- VII-j The Experience of NMR
- Appendix VIII
- Community Comment
- Peggy Charny
- Bruce Amshell
- References
- Photo Credits