ABSTRACT
Anthropogenic (human) activities often result in a need to modify and manage runoff and stream discharge: (1) to prevent, reduce, or control adverse impacts associated with changes in both the low and high discharges; (2) to provide a water supply; (3) to enhance water quality; (4) to generate power; (5) for recreational purpose; or (6) to protect, enhance, or restore stream health. Management strategies are diverse and might range from the use of rain barrels or retention and detention ponds to reduce runoff associated with urbanization, the installation of culverts under roads, construction of a vane in a stream for bank stability purposes or to provide fish habitat, or to the construction of large multipurpose dams that provide water, control floods, generate power, and have recreational value.
