Development of Stream Mitigation Performance Standards for Georgia

Learn about the development of biological performance standards for stream mitigation in Georgia through a 16-minute conference presentation from the Georgia Water Resources Conference. Explore how regional reference data is used to create performance curves representing benthic macroinvertebrate communities in small streams across Georgia's three main level III ecoregions. Understand the process of converting taxa metrics to index values between 0 and 1.0, enabling objective measurement of pre-project conditions and post-project biological responses. Discover how these novel stream mitigation performance standards fit into Georgia's 2018 changes to stream and wetland mitigation practices, and gain insights into the transparent monitoring and documentation of mitigation project outcomes through repeated sampling and metric evaluation.