STREAM CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT

AND
REHABILITATION

Title Slide
Little Blue River, Kansas

Phil Balch, TTEMI

Phil Balch – 2005

 Kansas –
Lower Republican
River Basin

Lower Republican
Watershed
 Natural Watersheds

Photo by Ken Sherraden

Agricultural Watersheds
Urban Watersheds
A stream is a product of its watershed.
The watershed’s climate, topography, geology,
vegetative cover and landuse combine to determine
a stream’s Dimension, Pattern and Profile.
 Dimension

Adapted from Wells

 Pattern
Meander
Belt Width

Meander
Wavelength
Sinuosity
Profile

Harrelson ET AL., 1994

Rosgen Stream
Classification
Morphologic Description
Stream Variables =
Channel width
Channel depth

Channel slope
Channel roughness
Sediment Size
Velocity
Discharge
Sediment Load
From Lane, 1955
 Channel Evolution Model
National Sedimentation Laboratory – Dr. Andrew
Simon

Stable Reaches
•Stage I
•Stage VI
Cropland
Infrastructure
Natural Gas
Pipeline
Channelization
Rock Rip Rap
Gabion Baskets
Concrete Lined Channels
Courtesy – David Derrick – USCOE
Courtesy – John McCullah – Salix Applied Earthcare
Englebert
> $100,000.00
Hays Park 1995
Hays City Park 1998
Hays City Park 2003
Soak Material
Don’t let it dry out!
Live Stakes or Poles
Same Site – 1 year later
Hansen River Project
Live stakes 1st growing season
Cott River Project – June 24, 2003
Willows – 12 feet high – 20,000 cfs
flow
3rd Growing Season
Live Fascine
Courtesy – John McCullah – Salix
Applied Earthcare
 Text Slide
LPSTP

 Bullet Items
Kansas Lunker Box
Rootwad Plan View
 Republican River, Kansas

Placing Key logs – perpendicular to

bank
 Placing Logs between key
logs – parallel to bank

Republican River, Kansas

Pushing High bank
down on top of logs

Republican River, Kansas

 Floodplain bench
created over logs

Republican River, Kansas

Floodplain bench planted to
native grasses – December 2000

Republican River, Kansas

January 2003

Republican River, Kansas

May 2004
 Little Blue River, Kansas

Murray Clark, July 2002

 Murray Clark, March 2003

Little Blue River, Kansas

Dead Siltation Structures

Little Blue River, Kansas

 8:1 Slope
Rock Vanes
 20 – 30 degrees
Re-directed flow – 70 degree
Flow
angle
Vortex
Weir or
Cross Vane
Flow Re-directed
90 degree angle
 Martin – Jueneman September, 2002

Little Blue River, Kansas

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