USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5065Channel Change and Bed-Material Transport in the Lower Chetco River, Oregon

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Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5065

Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Channel Change and Bed-Material Transport in the Lower Chetco River, Oregon

By J. Rose Wallick, Scott W. Anderson, Charles Cannon, and Jim E. O’Connor

Tables

Table 1. Summary of reach attributes for the study area, Chetco River, Oregon.

Table 2. Aerial photographs and orthophotographs used in the sediment transport study, Chetco River, Oregon.

Table 3. Map and survey data reviewed in the sediment transport study, Chetco River, Oregon.

Table 4. Sediment sampling locations used in the sediment transport study, Chetco River, Oregon.

Table 5. Summary of bedload measurements for winter 2008–09, Chetco River, Oregon.

Table 6. Summary of calculated transport rates for the Chetco River, Oregon.

Table 7. Summary of morphology-based sediment-transport-volume estimates, Chetco River, Oregon.

Table 8. Sources for estimates of bedload production rates for coastal drainage basins in northern California and southern Oregon.

Revised July 2012

First posted May 26, 2010

Report PDF (7.2 MB)

For additional information contact:
Oregon Water Science Center, Director
U.S. Geological Survey
2130 SW 5th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97201
http://or.water.usgs.gov

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