Project Number: 6408-13000-012-00
Project Type: Appropriated

Start Date: May 10, 2002
End Date: Apr 30, 2007

Objective:
Generate long-term databases from the ARS Goodwin Creek Experimental Watershed. Study and measure sediment load in rivers and derive criteria for clean sediment TMDLs. Assess channel processes for improved stream corridor management. Develop geotechnical and engineering solutions for the restoration of degraded watersheds and reservoirs. Develop integrated watershed scale and process-based stream corridor models required for the ARS-NRCS Agricultural Non-point Source Pollution Model technology.

Approach:
Long-term hydrologic and meteorological databases from the ARS Goodwin Creek Experimental Watershed will be used to study watershed processes. Field and laboratory studies will develop acoustic technology for load measurements and examine the impact of sediment transport on watershed processes and biological impairment. Field and numerical studies will quantify the effects of pore water pressure and vegetation on streambank strength and channel stability will be linked to biological impairment. Experiments will optimize the design of spur dikes, to design mitigation techniques for bank erosion, and to develop techniques to assess sediment deposited reservoirs. Models will be developed to simulate riparian buffer systems as a best management practice, to integrate the technology in CCHE1D into AGNPS 2001 and the CONCEPTS model will be enhanced to quantify the effects of riparian vegetation and channel planform adjustments.

Project Team

Alonso, Carlos Wren, Daniel Bingner, Ronald - Ron Kuhnle, Roger Simon, Andrew

Project Annual Reports

FY 2003   FY 2002

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