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A limited effort to determine sediment transport characteristics was conducted in the field. This effort consisted of sampling the sediment load at two cross sections during the peak discharge. The suspended sediment samples were incorrectly analyzed by the laboratory. There was insufficient data to construct a sediment rating curve. The following conclusions were drawn on the sediment transport characteristics: • Much of the suspended load is wash load in this reach consisting almost entirely of medium sand sized or smaller sediment. • Most of the medium sand and larger sediment is tranported in waves and bed forms in the unmeasured zone. • The unmeasured zone load was collected with a Helley-Smith sampler in dune bed forms and may be over-estimated by as much as 50%. • The right channel of the spawning bar is transporting only 25 to 30% of the bed load or unmeasured zone load in the river. Nevertheless, the cobble substrate in this channel was buried by 1 to 2 ft of sand which had not been removed by mid-August. B. Prediction of Escalante Wetland Overbank Flows. The Green River in the reach from the E-7 to E-18 flows across a broad open valley of relatively mild slope. The wetlands are located to the east of the river in the vicinity of cross sections E-16 to E-18 and consist of a area of old meander bends that were abandoned as the river straighten. and may have slightly incised. Flooding of the wetlands has been prevented by the creation of an artificial earthen levee along the entire river bank from cross sections E-14.5 to E-18. Confinement of high flows in the channel may have contributed to the potential channel incision in this reach. The levee was breached in 1984 by flows in excess of 40,000 cfs. As was observed during the 1993 high flow season, this reach is subjected to large variation in sand storage and removal through the creation of sand bars or thalweg scour. The wetlands water surface area was observed to have decreased during the period from April to June. On June 6 with a river discharge of about 17,000 cfs, the river water surface elevation was surveyed near the wetlands. In addition, the wetlands water surface was surveyed using the E-18 cross section left edge of water surface elevation as a reference. The river water surface elevation at E-18 was 3.25 ft higher than the wetlands water surface elevation. Upstream at E-14.5, the river water surface elevation was 6 ft higher than that in the wetlands. This data shows that during the period from April to June the river water surface 32