Stream Erosion Potential and Stormwater Management Strategies
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 128, Issue 6
Abstract
Hydrologic and sediment transport modeling were used to examine the effectiveness of typical stormwater management policies in reducing the potential for stream-channel erosion. Two bedload functions and three total-load transport relationships were applied to 8 mm gravel and 0.5 mm sand bed materials to compare the performance of the relationships in estimating detention requirements across modes of sediment transport. The various sediment-transport relationships yielded widely diverging estimates of sediment-transport capacity and yet suggested detention volume requirements that agreed within 20%. Detention design for control of cumulative sediment load required a detention storage volume 61% greater than a peak control detention facility and resulted in an altered temporal distribution of sub-bank-full shear stress. Design of stormwater facilities based on time-integrated sediment-transport capacity may inadvertently result in channel instability and substrate changes unless the approach accounts for the frequency distribution of sub-bank-full flows, the capacity to transport heterogeneous bed and bank materials, and potential shifts in inflowing sediment loads.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
References
Bagnold, R. A. (1966). “An approach to the sediment transport problem from general physics.” U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 422-I, Washington, D.C.
Bledsoe, B. P., and Watson, C. C.(2001). “Effects of urbanization on channel instability.” J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc., 37(2), 255–270.
Brown, C. B. (1950). “Sediment transportation.” Engineering hydraulics, H. Rouse, ed., Wiley, New York, 769–857.
Brownlie, W. R. (1981). “Prediction of flow depth and sediment discharge in open channels.” Rep. No. KH-R-43A, W. M. Keck Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
Engelund, F., and Hansen, E. (1967). A monograph on sediment transport to alluvial streams, Teknik Vorlag, Copenhagen.
Hey, R. D., and Thorne, C. R.(1986). “Stable channels with mobile gravel beds.” J. Hydraul. Eng., 112(8), 671–689.
Howard, A. D. (1980). “Thresholds in river regimes.” Thresholds in geomorphology, D. R. Coates and J. D. Vitek, eds., George Allen & Unwin, Boston, 227–258.
Julien, P. Y. (1995). Erosion and sedimentation, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Knighton, A. D. (1998). Fluvial forms and processes: A new perspective, Wiley, New York.
Lidstone and Anderson, Inc. (1993). “Mail Creek stability study.” Preliminary design report prepared for the City of Fort Collins, Stormwater Utility Dept., Fort Collins, Colo.
MacRae, C. R. (1991). “A procedure for design of storage facilities for instream erosion control in urban streams.” PhD thesis, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada.
MacRae, C. R. (1993). “An alternative design approach for the control of stream erosion potential in urbanizing watersheds.” 6th Int. Conf. on Urban Storm Drainage, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
MacRae, C. R. (1997). “Experience from morphological research on Canadian streams: Is the control of the two-year frequency runoff event the best basis for stream channel protection?” Effects of watershed development and management of aquatic ecosystems, L. A. Roesner, ed., ASCE, Reston, Va., 144–162.
Malcom, H. R. (1989). Elements of urban stormwater design, North Carolina State University Extension Service, College of Engineering, Raleigh, N.C.
McCuen, R. H., and Moglen, G. E.(1988). “Multicriterion stormwater management methods.” J. Water Resour. Plan. Manage., 114(4), 414–431.
Meyer-Peter, E., and Müller, R. (1948). “Formulas for bed-load transport.” Proc., 2d Meeting IAHR, Int. Assoc. for Hydraulic Research, Delft, The Netherlands, 39–64.
Richardson, E. V., Simons, D. B., and Julien, P. Y. (1990). “Highways in the river environment.” U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.
Shen, H. W., and Hung, C. S. (1972). “Chapter 14: An engineering approach to total bed-material load by regression analysis.” Proc., Sedimentation Symposium, H. W. Shen, ed., Water Resources Pub., Berkeley, Calif.
Waters, T. F. (1995). “Sediment in streams: Sources, biological effects, and control.” American Fisheries Monograph 7, American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Md.
Wilcock, P.(1997). “Friction between science and practice: The case of river restoration.” EOS Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C.78(41), 454.
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 128 • Issue 6 • November 2002
Pages: 451 - 455
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Received: Jan 17, 2001
Accepted: Jul 23, 2001
Published online: Oct 15, 2002
Published in print: Nov 2002
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.