Pipeline corridors through wetlands

Conference · Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6733283

Zimmerman, R E; Wilkey, P L ^[1]; Isaacson, H R ^[2]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
2. Gas Research Institute (United States)

This paper presents preliminary findings from six vegetational surveys of gas pipeline rights-of-way (ROW) through wetlands and quantifies the impacts of a 20-year-old pipeline ROW through a boreal forest wetland. Six sites of various ages were surveyed in ecosystems ranging from coastal marsh to forested wetland. At all sites except one, both the number and the percentage of wetland species on the Row approximated or exceeded those in the adjacent natural area. The boreal forest study showed that (1) adjacent natural wetland areas were not altered in type; (2) water sheet flow restriction had been reversed by nature; (3) no nonnative plant species invaded the natural area; (4) three-quarters of the ROW area was a wetland, and (5) the ROW increased diversity.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: GRI; Gas Research Inst., Chicago, IL (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6733283
• Report Number(s): ANL/CP-72393; CONF-921152--2; ON: DE93004253
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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03 NATURAL GAS
030800* -- Natural Gas-- Environmental Aspects
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540250 -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (1990-)
540350 -- Environment
Aquatic-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (1990-)
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CONSTRUCTION
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ECOSYSTEMS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FLUIDS
FORESTS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
LOUISIANA
MAINTENANCE
NATURAL GAS
NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
NEW JERSEY
NEW YORK
NORTH AMERICA
PIPELINES
PLANTS
RIGHTS-OF-WAY
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
USA
WETLANDS
WISCONSIN