Lone Tree Creek Headcut Stabilization

Y2 worked with the Natrona County Conservation District, a local landowner, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for this stream stabilization and headcuts project. The headcuts are threatening wet meadows and contributing excessive sediment into the downstream North Platte River. Y2 identified a design approach to stabilize the headcuts, protect and reestablish wet meadows above the headcuts to slow further sediment contributions downstream. These improvements will promote stream channel stability, natural channel function, and floodplain connectivity to potentially reclaim the lost floodplain for the entire channel. Y2 provided surveying, civil and geotechnical engineering, and natural resources and GIS. The natural resource team completed the wetland delineation for the project area. The natural resource team also conducted a Proper Functioning Condition (PFC) assessment on the project reach to determine baseline health and conditions of the area and give the project proponent the ability to qualitatively measure progress over time as the restoration takes place.