Arkansas River Channel Capacity and Riparian Habitat Planning Study

• Description: ARCA
• State: CO
• State: KS
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 8/1/2001
• Author: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Title: Arkansas River Channel Capacity and Riparian Habitat Planning Study
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Aerial Photograph 1: A Portion of Channel Problem Area No. 1: Example of encroachment on
the Arkansas River floodplain and locations where the floodplain is
constricted ......................................................................... .............................52
Aerial Photograph 2: Example of agricultural encroachment on the Arkansas.River floodplain
and river channel ................................................................. .............................53
Aerial Photograph 3: Channel Problem Area No. 2: Example of Arkansas River
channelization... ............................................................ .............................54
Aerial Photograph 4: Channel Problem Area No. 2: Example of channelization and of sediment
transport and deposition on the Arkansas River as the river tries to regain equilibrium, in the area
of Horse and Adobe Creeks west of Las Animas, Bent County
Colorado.............. ............................... ............................ .............................55
Aerial Photograph 5: Upstream of Channel Problem Area No. 3 Example of recent sediment
deposition in the Arkansas River west of the U.S. Highway 50 bridge north of Las Animas, Bent
County, Colorado, that occurred subsequent to spring 1999
flooding ............................................................................ .............................56
Aerial Photograph 6: Channel Problem Area No.3 Approximately 1 mile east of Las Animas,
BentCounty, Colorado ........................................................... .............................57
Photograph 1: Channel Problem Area No. 3, East of Las Animas along the levee, view of
extensive cattails and salt cedar in the background, looking north - northwest .......................58
Photograph I Channel Problem Area No. 3, east of Las Animas alon g the levee, view of
extensive cattails, dead cottonwoods from inundation, and salt cedar in the background,
looking
east.............. . ................................................................... .............................59
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