Wet Meadows: Hypotheses 1-8 ‎(2)‎

• File Number: 8461.100
• Description: Adaptive Management Workgroup
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/5/2006
• Author: PRRIP
• Title: Wet Meadow: Hypotheses 1-8
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

System #1 a Program channel habitat restoration
actions (i.e., clear/leave/pulse) will result in
detectable change to Platte River form and
function (currently S1, S2, and S4)
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S4 - no detectable change
Management Actions
System hypothesis are:
• S1: Mechanical modification of channel combined with sediment and flow management
will affect channel morphology which will result in species use (See figure )
• S2 is mechanical efforts alone can have the same affect as clear level pulse
• S4 Management actions will not be of sufficient scale and magnitude to cause detectable
system wide changes
Mechanical Sediment Flow