Water Information Coordination Program (WICP)
Description of a federal interagency program to improve water information for decision making about natural resources management and environmental protection and the Advisory Committee on Water Information working with the program.
(Score: 1.380)
National bridge scour database
Database with detailed data on sites and data collected on scour (downward erosion by streamflow) at bridges, piers, and abutments in the United States.
(Score: 0.690)
Canoeing North Dakota rivers
Links to streamflow, stage, pictures, maps, river descriptions, and general information for canoeing on North Dakotas rivers. Files are in PDF format.
(Score: 0.452)
Fluvial geomorphology studies in Kansas
Report of completed studies that have investigated the response of river and stream channels in Kansas to a variety of human-caused and natural disturbances.
(Score: 0.451)
Grand Canyon studies: using ocean-research techniques to study a river system
Brief review of studies with sidscan sonar on sediment in the Grand Caonyon as part of research on the changes brought about by the Glen Canyon Dam and the results gathered from a 1996 controlled flood experiment with links to related information.
(Score: 0.346)
Erosion in the Rio Puerco: geography and processes
Paper on the accelerated erosion of the Rio Puerco, a tributary of the Rio Grande in New Mexico, which has deepened and widened its channel, or arroyo, since the settlement of the region.
(Score: 0.333)
Definition:
a) Straight, continuous, or extended part of a river (stream), viewed without interruption (as between two bends) or chosen between two specified points. b) Length of a channel, uniform with respect to discharge, depth, area, and slope. c) Length of a channel for which a single gage affords a satisfactory measure of the stage and discharge. [Adapted from Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]
