Quantifying downstream impacts of impoundment on flow regime and channel planform, lower Trinity River, Texas

Slattery, M.C.; Phillips, J.D.; Wellmeyer, J.L.

Quantifying downstream impacts of impoundment on flow regime and channel planform, lower Trinity River, Texas

Date

2008-11-18T15:15:02Z

Authors

Slattery, M.C.

Phillips, J.D.

Wellmeyer, J.L.

Publisher

Geomorphology

Description

This study seeks to describe and quantify channel activity and flow regime, identifying effects of the 1968 closure of Livingston dam. Channel activity rates do not indicate a more stabilized planform following dam closure; rather they suggest that the Trinity River is adjusting itself to the stress of Livingston dam in a slow, gradual process that may not be apparent in a modern time scale.

Keywords

impoundment, Trinity River, regulated discharge, channel planform change

Citation

Wellmeyer, J.L., M.C. Slattery, and J.D. Phillips. (2005). "Quantifying downstream impacts of impoundment on flow regime and channel planform, lower Trinity River, Texas." Geomorphology 69(1-4):1-13.