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Daylighted stream at Spanish Banks, Vancouver, B.C. Located upstream from Spanish Banks waterfront, one of the highest profile creeks in Vancouver Metro became open to salmon in 2000. In a collaborative project between Spanish Banks Streamkeepers Association and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada , barriers to fish passage were ...
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Daylighted and similar may refer to: Daylighting in the architectural sense, to use natural light for indoor illumination; Daylighting (streams) Daylighting (tunnels)
Citizens also worried the daylighted creek would be ugly or unsafe [24] or raise utility bills. [23] In 2010, the Lower Bee Branch Restoration was started [21] and it ended by June 2015. [15] Construction on the Upper Bee Branch Restoration started in 2015 [21] and was completed December 2016. [15] About 100 pieces of property were bought by ...
Creek headwaters in Cowen Park, winter 2008. Ravenna Creek is a stream in the Ravenna and Roosevelt neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, whose present daylighted length of nearly 3,500 feet (1.1 km) is entirely within the Ravenna & Cowen Parks.
Daylighting a tunnel is to remove its "roof" of overlying rock and soil, exposing the railway or roadway to daylight and converting it to a railway or roadway cut.Tunnels are often daylighted to improve vertical or horizontal clearances—for example, to accommodate double-stack container trains or electrifying rail lines, where increasing the size of the tunnel bore is impractical.
Citizen work to restore the creek began in the 1970s with planting of natives at Codornices Park by Los Amigos de Codornices. In 1995, efforts of the nonprofit Urban Creeks Council and Richard Register's Ecocity Builders led to a block of the creek between Eighth and Ninth Streets being "daylighted"—that is, removed from a culvert.
Passive daylighting is a system of both collecting sunlight using static, non-moving, and non-tracking systems (such as windows, sliding glass doors, most skylights, light tubes) and reflecting the collected daylight deeper inside with elements such as light shelves.