Start Date: 2015
End Date: 2018
Full Citation:
Kansas Water Office, 2015-2018, $144,000. Estimating stream bank sediment loads from the mainstem of the Cottonwood and Neosho rivers between Marion and Council Grove reservoirs and John Redmond Reservoir. PI: D. Huggins.
Category:
- Aquatic
Associated with the KU Field Station: No
Research Summary:
In 2015 the Kansas Water Office (KWO) performed a stabilization project on three bends of the Cottonwood River south of the town of Emporia in order to reduce sediment delivery into John Redmond Reservoir. Because of potential harm to the federally threatened Neosho madtom (Noturus placidus), the USFWS requires monitoring these stabilized sites for adverse changes in madtom habitat (USFWS 2010). CPCB performed a pre-stabilization monitoring in 2013 and then this post-stabilization monitoring in 2015, completing all tasks defined in the KWO contract. Methods followed those established by The Watershed Institute (TWI) to monitor stabilized sites on the Neosho River. See: Baker, D.,and D. Huggins. 2016. Pre- and post-bank stabilization monitoring on the Cottonwood River—a fish survey. Kansas Biological Survey Open-file Report No.185. 23 pp.
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