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Evaluation of the Long-term Impacts of Urbanization on the Physical Characteristics of Piedmont Headwater Streams: Interim Results
Evaluation of the Long-term Impacts of Urbanization on the Physical Characteristics of Piedmont Headwater Streams: Interim Results
| dc.contributor.author | Mikalsen, Ted | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Bourne, Robert L. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Sukenick, Adam | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia. Environmental Protection Division | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Cobb County Water System | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | Hatcher, Kathryn J. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-15T17:00:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-15T17:00:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-03 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 26 and 27, 2001, Athens, Georgia. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | As reported in the 1999 Conference Proceedings (Bourne and Mikalsen, 1999), a field study was initiated in 1996 to evaluate the response of a segment of Proctor Creek in Cobb County to the impact of rapid urbanization in the watershed over time and in comparison to a segment of a physically comparable but almost fully developed urban watershed. The objectives of the study are to measure and evaluate long-term changes in channel cross-sections, bank and channel scouring, streambed composition, longitudinal reach profiles, plan-form dimensions, biological habitats and communities, water chemistry, and land cover to determine the timing and response of the stream to urbanization within the watershed and compare them with corresponding measurements of the developed urban watershed. These interim results describe measured and observed changes in the Proctor Creek study reach. Since the onset of physical observations in 1996, when increased sedimentation was the only evident indication of increased upstream development in the study reach, there has been a decline in the diversity of the macroinvertebrate community, enlargement of channel cross-sections and extensive bank undercutting and cantilever failure in the lower portion of the reach, scouring and undercutting of an outside bank and downstream migration of a cobble deposit in the middle section, and scouring of root-armored banks in the upper portion of the reach, and extensive silt and sediment deposition over the entire reach. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | This book was published by the Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2202. The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-397) or the other conference sponsors. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0-935835-07-5 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43985 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.publisher.original | Institute of Ecology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GWRI2001. Watershed Protection | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water resources management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Streams | en_US |
| dc.subject | Urbanization | en_US |
| dc.subject | Watersheds | en_US |
| dc.title | Evaluation of the Long-term Impacts of Urbanization on the Physical Characteristics of Piedmont Headwater Streams: Interim Results | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Water Resources Institute | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Georgia Water Resources Conference | |
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