Post-project geomorphic assessment of a large process-based river restoration project
| Autor: | John C. Schmidt, Tyler M. Allred, Susannah O. Erwin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Hydrology
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Downstream (software development) 0208 environmental biotechnology Fluvial Sediment 02 engineering and technology STREAMS 01 natural sciences 020801 environmental engineering Stream restoration Sediment transport Restoration ecology Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes Communication channel |
| Zdroj: | Geomorphology. 270:145-158 |
| ISSN: | 0169-555X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.07.018 |
| Popis: | This study describes channel changes following completion of the Provo River Restoration Project (PRRP), the largest stream restoration project in Utah and one of the largest projects in the United States in which a gravel-bed river was fully reconstructed. We summarize project objectives and the design process, and we analyze monitoring data collected during the first 7 years after project completion. Post-project channel adjustment during the study period included two phases: (i) an initial phase of rapid, but small-scale, adjustment during the first years after stream flow was introduced to the newly constructed channel and (ii) a subsequent period of more gradual topographic adjustment and channel migration. Analysis of aerial imagery and ground-survey data demonstrate that the channel has been more dynamic in the downstream 4 km where a local source contributes a significant annual supply of bed material. Here, the channel migrates and exhibits channel adjustments that are more consistent with project objectives. The upstream 12 km of the PRRP are sediment starved, the channel has been laterally stable, and this condition may not be consistent with large-scale project objectives. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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