Sugar Creek Fluvial Geomorphic Restoration Study

Fluvial Geomorphology - the study of a drainage system's form and functions, including affects from man's interactions. Climate, geology, land forms, vegetative communities, land-use, and many other factors inter-relate; influencing the drainage basins response in hydrology, vegetation, and morphology. The drainage-network forms and is formed by the landscape that it flows through. Soil detachment, sheet and rill erosion rates, sediment yields, depositional features, sediment delivery are related to farming practices, rainfall intensities, wind velocities, drainage slopes (profiles), plan forms (sinuosity), bank materials (soils and vegetation) and valley cross sections, which in-turn govern the channels hydraulics and sediment transport characteristics of the moving waters.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Background Information

Geomorphic Approach - Goals

Watershed Characteristics

Watershed Location

Physical Watershed Characteristics

Monitoring Reaches

Sugar Creek - S-Curve and Main Stem

Kickapoo Creek

Regional Curve

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