D’Olive Watershed
D’Olive Creek, Tiawassee Creek and Joe’s Branch Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan
Click here to download the final draft Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan.
Click here to download the Appendices to the Plan.
Relevant Links and Publications
- Analysis of Sediment Loading Rates and Impacts of Land-use Change on the D’Olive and Tiawasee Creek Watersheds, Baldwin County, Alabama (2007)
- Comparison of Land Use/Land Cover for D’Olive Watershed, 1974-2008.
- D’Olive Watershed Wetlands Condition Assessment, Vittor & Associates (2010) NEW!
Daphne Environmental Programs Manager Ashley Campbell provides some perspective as she sits on a portion of collapsed stream bank at the head cut tributary to Joe’s Branch on Westminster Village property.
Watershed Planning Implementation
Joe's Branch Restoration
In the Joe’s Branch watershed, on the property of Westminster Village adjacent and parallel to Highway 131, a head cut stream is eroding at an accelerating rate, an ominous condition as ALDOT prepares to undertake improvements to the highway. Identified as a high priority stabilization area in the D’Olive Creek, Tiawasee Creek and Joe’s Branch Watershed Management Plan, MBNEP has submitted a funding request to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management on behalf of its partners in Spanish Fort ,Daphne, ALDOT and Westminster Village to undertake restoration of the stream using a cutting-edge technology called Regenerative Step Pool Storm Conveyance. This methodology involves filling the gully to flush with a mixture of sand and saw dust and installing a series of rock step pools down the length of the impacted stream to slow velocity and promote infiltration of the stormwater runoff underlying the stream degradation. The proposed scope of work includes restoration of downstream wetlands impacted by sediments that resulted from the degradation of the stream banks. It also includes utilization of upstream best management practices to decrease stormwater runoff within the Joe’s Branch Subwatershed.
Archive
- Request for Qualifications
- Announcement of Pre-proposal Conference on 12.18.08
- Submitted Questions and Answers About the D’Olive and Tiawassee Creek/Joe’s Branch Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan
- Pre-proposal Conference Attendee Contact Information
- D’Olive Bay, Ecological Consequences of Channel Dredging (DISL, Vittor 1972).
- D’Olive Bay, Phase IV of Ecological Consequences of Channel Dredging, (DISL, Vittor 1973).
- Sedimentological Study of D’Olive Bay and its Drainage Basin, Baldwin County, AL, (Isphording, 1981).
- D'Olive Watershed Management Project Planning Process
The Selection Committee who evaluated the eleven proposals individually and through open discussion included the following individuals:
Julie Batchelor Baldwin County Planning Department
Roberta Swann Mobile Bay National Estuary Program
Marlon Cook Geological Survey of Alabama
Dr. Dennis DeVries Auburn University
Patric Harper U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Phillip Hinesley Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources-Coastal Section
Patti Hurley Alabama Department of Environmental Management
Jennifer Jacobsen U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Heather Krantz Alabama Department of Environmental Management
Henry Lawson Lake Forest Property Owners Association
Mike McMillan City of Spanish Fort
Ashley Campbell City of Daphne (Non-Voting Position)