8221

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8221
• Author: Van Steeter, M. M.
• Title: Historic and Current Processes Affecting Channel Change and Endangered fish Habitats of the Colorado River Near Grand Junction, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Doctor of Philosophy.
• Copyright Material: NO

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SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS-----------------------------132

C oncl us ions-------------------------------------------------------- 132

Historic changes in streamflow--___,______________________133

Historic channel change-----________________________133

Effects of recent flows on side channel and backwater
habitats-_________________________________133

Flow modeling and sediment transport----------------134

Synthesis______________________________________ 134

How realistic?

_______________________________135

Ongoing solutions---_______________________________________136

The future_____________________________________137

REFEREN CES-_______________________________________139

APPENDIX I Maps of the Grand Valley reach for 1937,
1954,1968, an d 1993_________________________________ 147

APPENDIX II Cross-sections at backwater sites--------------l64

APPENDIX III Cross-sections at each river mile and
bankfull dimensionless shear stress-_______174