Start Date: 2016
End Date: 2017
Full Citation:
Kansas Water Office, 2016, $25,000. Post-bank stabilization monitoring on the Cottonwood River – a fish survey. PI: D. Baker
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, in 2013 and 2015 we performed pre- and post-construction evaluation of six sites on the river, including fish seining and channel and sediment measurements. We continued this work in July 2017 with a 2nd post-construction evaluation of the sites. See KBS Report 193: Baker, D. and D. Huggins. 2017. Post-bank stabilization monitoring on the Cottonwood River – a fish survey. Kansas Biological Survey Report No. 193. 13pp.
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