Start Date: 2013
End Date: 2015
Full Citation:
Kansas Water Office, 2013-2015, $20,697, "Post-Bank Stabilization Fish Monitoring on the Cottonwood River." PI: D. Huggins.
Category:
- Aquatic
Associated with the KU Field Station: No
Research Summary:
In 2014 the Kansas Water Office (KWO) performed a stabilization project on bends of the Cottonwood River south of the town of Emporia in order to reduce sediment delivery into John Redmond Reservoir. However, the US Fish and Wildlife Service deemed similar construction in the Neosho River just below the confluence with the Cottonwood River as possibly harmful to the federally threatened Neosho Madtom (Noturus placidus) (USFWS 2010). In anticipation of a similar ruling on this projected work, KWO and Kansas Biological Survey (KBS) performed pre- and post-construction evaluation of six sites on the river, including fish seining and channel and sediment measurements. See KBS Report 185: Baker, D. and D. Huggins. 2016. Pre- and post-bank stabilization monitoring on the Cottonwood River – a fish survey. KBS Report 185. 23pp.