FLOOD01169

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Stream Name: All
• Title: Design Guidelines and Criteria Channels and Hydraulic Structures on Sandy Soil
• Date: 6/1/1981
• Prepared For: UDFCD
• Prepared By: Simons Li & Associates Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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LIST OF FIGURES

River channel patterns

Slope-discharge relation for braiding or meandering
in sand-bed streams (after Lane, 1957)

Channel adjustment above and below a dam

Lowering of base level for tributary stream.

Raising base level for tributary stream.

Straightening of a reach by cutoff

Forms of bed roughness in sand channels.

Relation of bed form to stream power
fall diameter of bed sediment (after
and Richardson, 1966).

and median
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Figure 3-10. Effect of bend on boundary shear stress (after
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Shields' diagram: dimensionless critical shear stress

Parameters for sediment transport equation
(Equation 3-1) .

The embankment length measured normal to the flow.

Erosion that can take place downstream of
hydraulic structures

Meander characteristics.

Definition sketch for weighted-creep theory for
nonporous liner and cutoffs.

General erosion process.

Variation of , in a trapezoidal cross section.

Maximum unit tractive force versus bid.

Angle of repose.

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