Shobers Run/Fort Bedford Trout Unlimited
This is a multi-phase project to stabilize streambanks and stream channel, reduce erosion and sedimentation,and improve stream habitat through the installation of GP-1 fish habitat enhancement structures along a segment of Shobers Run adjacent to the Bedford Middle School, between the Watson Street bridge and the Bedford Elks property boundary. The full segment is approximately 1800 feet long.
Phase One was primarily funded by an Embrace-A-Stream grant from National Trout Unlimited, augmented by a grant from the Bedford County Action Plan (CAP). This phase was completed in 2021 and focused on stabilizing an eroded bank that threatened a structure on a residential property. A large modified mud-sill was installed along with a smaller mud-sill and two log-framed rock deflectors. Additional work (Phase Two - fully funded by CAP) at the site to complete some landscaping details was completed in September of 2023.
Phase Three installed devices on the stream section upstream of Phase One to the parcel line at the Bedford Elks property. Completed in the summer of 2023, this phase was entirely funded by CAP.
