Upper Mississippi River Hydrodynamics:

A current trend in many reaches on the Upper Mississippi river is one of increased hydraulic conveyance through backwater areas with subsequent decreases in navigation channel flows This increases both the sediment load to backwaters and the amount of navigation channel shoaling requiring maintenanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hendrickson, Jon S., Haase, Farley R., Hoff, Michelle T.
Other Authors: CORPS OF ENGINEERS ST PAUL MN ST PAUL DISTRICT
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1995
Subjects:
Hydrology
Limnology and Potamology
Civil Engineering
*MISSISSIPPI RIVER
*CHANNEL FLOW
*DREDGING
DATA BASES
MAINTENANCE
SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
NAVIGATION
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
HYDRODYNAMICS
CHANNELS(WATERWAYS)
ISLANDS
DAMS
LOCKS(WATERWAYS)
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER
SHOALING
DISCHARGE RATE
BOOMERANG ISLAND
TRAPPING ISLAND
HERON ISLAND
STODDARD BAY
HORSESHOE ISLAND
Heron Island
Horseshoe Island
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA301453
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA301453
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Summary:A current trend in many reaches on the Upper Mississippi river is one of increased hydraulic conveyance through backwater areas with subsequent decreases in navigation channel flows This increases both the sediment load to backwaters and the amount of navigation channel shoaling requiring maintenance dredging. During the last 20 years, The St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers has implemented several projects to reverse this trend. As part of these projects, discharge measurements have been dome to quantify flow distributions. In pool 8, a fairly extensive data base of discharge measurements exists. (MM)

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