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Modeling Beaver Dam Hydraulics and Pond Sediment Storage at the Watershed Scale in the Central Rocky Mountains in Colorado, USA

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...
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Hydraulic models guide design of Garrison Dam spillway, mega dam safety project

VICKSBURG, Miss. — Engineers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Omaha and Huntington districts and Risk Management Center are advancing the Garrison Dam Spillway Modification Project using scale ...
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Dam model provides engineers “sandbox” to learn before Rough River Dam Safety Modification project construction

Rough River Dam in west-central Kentucky is entering one of its most significant construction periods in its more than 65-year history. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District is ...
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Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: source-to-sink sediment budget and synthesis

Authors Jonathan A. Warrick, Jennifer A. Bountry, Amy E. East, Christopher S. Magirl, Timothy J. Randle, Guy R. Gelfenbaum, Andrew C. Ritchie, George R. Pess, Vivian ...