225
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Impact of Jordanelle Dam on sedimentological and ecohydrological regimes of the Provo River, Utah, USA

, &
Pages 127-137 | Received 01 Jul 2020, Accepted 04 Jul 2021, Published online: 17 Aug 2021

References

  • Allred, T. M., & Schmidt, J. C. (1999). Channel narrowing by vertical accretion along the Green River near Green River, Utah. GSA Bulletin, 111(12), 1757–1772. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1757:CNBVAA>2.3.CO;2
  • Andrews, E. D. (1986). Downstream effect of Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Green River, Colorado and Utah. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 97(8), 1012–1023. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97<1012:DEOFGR>2.0.CO;2
  • Bach, L. (2008). Managing water releases to restore ecological flows in the McKenzie River. Oregon Watershed Enhancement board Technical Assistance Grant Proposal.
  • Beechie, T. J., Sear, D. A., Olden, J. D., Pess, G. R., Buffington, J. M., Moir, H., Roni, P., & Pollock, M. M. (2010). Process-based principles for restoring river systems. BioScience, 60(3), 209–222. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2010.60.3.7
  • Blott, S. J., & Pye, K. (2001). Gradistat: A grain size distribution and statistics package for the analysis of unconsolidated sediments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 26, 1237–1248. http://doi.org/10.1002/esp.261
  • Bradley, C., & Smith, D. G. (1984). Meandering channel response to altered flow regime: Milk river, Alberta and Montana. Water Resources Research, 20(12), 1913–1920. https://doi.org/10.1029/WR020i012p01913
  • Bradley, W. C., Fahnestock, R. K., & Rowekamp, E. T. (1972). Coarse sediment transport by flood flows on Knik River, Alaska. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 83(5), 1261–1284. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1972)83[1261:CSTBFF]2.0.CO;2
  • Brandt, S. A. (2000). Classification of geomorphological effects downstream of dams. Catena, 40(4), 375–401. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0341-8162(00)00093-X
  • Bunte, K., & Abt, S. R. (2001). Sampling surface and subsurface particle-size distributions in wadable gravel-and cobble-bed streams for analyses in sediment transport, hydraulics, and streambed monitoring. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
  • Carling, P. A. (1988). Channel Change and sediment transport in regulated U.K. rivers. Regulated Rivers: Resource Management, 2(3), 369–387. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrr.3450020313
  • Chen, X. (2001). Human impacts on the Changjiang (Yangtze) River basin, China, with special reference to the impacts on the dry season water discharges into the sea. Geomorphology, 41(2), 111–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-555X(01)00109-X
  • Chien, N. (1985). Changes in river regime after the construction of upstream reservoirs. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 10(2), 143–159. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3290100207
  • Chin, A. (2002a). Adjustment of stream channel capacity following dam closure, Yegua Creek, Texas. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 38(6), 1520–1529. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2002.tb04362.x
  • Chin, A. (2002b). The periodic nature of step-pool mountain streams. American Journal of Science, 302(2), 144–167. https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.302.2.144
  • Chin, A., & Bowman, J. A. (Eds.). (2005). Changes in flow regime following dam construction, Yegua Creek, South-Central Texas. Texas A&M University Press.
  • Christiansen, D. A., & Johnston, R. (1997). Final environmental impact statement on the Provo River restoration project. Utah Reclamation and Conservation Commission.
  • Collier, M., Webb, R. H., & Schmidt, J. C. (1996). Dams and rivers: Primer on the downstream effects of dams. U.S. Geological Survey Circular, 116, 94. http://doi.org/10.3133/cir1126
  • Dade, W., & Friend, P. (1998). Grain-size, sediment-transport regime, and channel slope in alluvial rivers. The Journal of Geology, 106(6), 661–676. https://doi.org/10.1086/516052
  • Dade, W. B., Renshaw, C. E., & Magilligan, F. J. (2011). Sediment transport constraints on river response to regulation. Geomorphology, 126(1), 245–251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.11.007
  • Dai, Z. (2008). Runoff characteristics of the Changjiang River during 2006: Effect of extreme drought and the impounding of the Three Gorges Dam. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL033456
  • Dietzen, C. (2012). Controls on downstream changes in grain shape and size in the Mameyes River, Puerto Rico. Pennsylvania (MS Thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
  • Douglas, C. M. S. (2016). Widespread dieback of riparian trees on a dammed ephemeral river and evidence of local mitigation by tributary flows. PeerJ, 4, e2622. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2622
  • Duncan, M. J., Suren, A. M., & Brown, S. L. R. (1999). Assessment of streambed stability in steep, bouldery streams: Development of a new analytical technique. Journal of North American Benthological Society, 18(4), 445–456. https://doi.org/10.2307/1468377
  • Dusterhoff, S. R., Sloat, M. R., & Ligon, F. K. (2017). The influence of coarse particle mobility on scour depth in salmonid spawning habitat. River Research Applications, 33(8), 1306–1314. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3178
  • Elliot, J. G., & Parker, R. S. (1997). Altered streamflow and sediment entrainment in the Gunnison Gorge. Journal of American Water Resources Association, 33(5), 1041–1054. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.1997.tb04123.x
  • Erwin, S. O. (2012). Closing a sediment budget for a reconfigured reach of the Provo River, Utah, United States. Water Resources Research, 48(10), W10512. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR011035
  • Erwin, S. O., Schmidt, J. C., & Allred, T. A. (2016). Post-project geomorphic asessment of a large process-based river restoration project. Geomorphology, 270, 145–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.07.018
  • ESRI. (2016). ESRI geographer information system (GIS) and mapping software.
  • Fergus, T. (1997). Geomorphological response of a river regulated for hydropower: River Fortun, Norway. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management, 13(5), 449–461. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1646(199709/10)13:5<449::AID-RRR468>3.0.CO;2-#
  • Folk, R. L., & Ward, W. C. (1957). A study in the significance of grain-size parameters. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 27, 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1306/74D70646-2B21-11D7-8648000102C1865D
  • Graf, W. L. (1978). Fluvial adjustments to the spread of tamarisk in the Colorado Plateau region. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 89(10), 1491–1501. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1978)89<1491:FATTSO>2.0.CO;2
  • Graf, W. L. (1983). Flood-related channel change in an arid-region river. Earth Surface Forms and Processes, 8(2), 125–139. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3290080204
  • Graf, W. L. (1988). Fluvial processes in dryland rivers. Springer-Verlag.
  • Graf, W. L. (Ed.). (1996). Geomorphology and policy for restoration of impounded American rivers: What is natural? John Wiley and Sons.
  • Graf, W. L. (1999). Dam nation: A geographic census of American dams and their large scale hydrologic impacts. Water Resources Research, 35(4), 1305–1311. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999WR900016
  • Graf, W. L. (2005). Geomorphology and American dams: The scientific, social, and economic context. Geomorphology, 71(1-2), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.05.005
  • Graf, W. L. (2006). Downstream hydrological and geomorphic effects of large dams on American rivers. Geomorphology, 79(3-4), 336–360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.06.022
  • Grams, P. E., & Schmidt, J. C. (2005). Equilibrium or indeterminate? Where sediment budgets fail: Sediment mass balance and adjustment of channel form, Green River downstream from Flaming Gorge Dam, Utah and Colorado. Geomorphology, 71, 156–181.
  • Greenwood, M. T. (1999). Channel changes and invertebrate faunas below Nant-Y-Moch Dam, River Rheidol, Wales, UK: 35 years on. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management, 15(1-3), 99–112. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00018961
  • Gregory, S. V., Ashkenas, L., & Nygaard, C. (2007). Environmental flows workshop for the Middle Fork and Coast Fork of the Willamette River, Oregon. Oregon State University.
  • Guo, H. (2012). Effects of the Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River flow and river interaction with Poyang Lake, China: 2003–2008. Journal of Hydrology, 416, 19–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.11.027
  • Hall, J. E., Holzer, D. M., & Beechie, T. J. (2007). Predicting river floodplain and lateral channel migration for Salmon habitat conservation. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 43(3), 786–797. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00063.x
  • Heinz Center. (2002). Dam removal: Science and decision making. Washington DC: The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
  • Higgs, G., & Petts, G. (1988). Hydrological changes and river regulation in the U.K. Regulated Rivers: Resource Management, 2(3), 349–368. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrr.3450020312
  • Hyatt Hansen, C., Williams, G., & Adjei, Z. (2015). Long-term application of remote sensing chlorophyll detection models: Jordanelle reservoir case study. Natural Resources, 6(2), 123–129. https://doi.org/10.4236/nr.2015.62011
  • Kemp, G. P. (2016). Enhancing mud supply from the Lower Missouri River to the Mississippi River Delta USA: Dam bypassing and coastal restoration. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 183, 304–313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2016.07.008
  • Kendy, E. (2017). Leveraging environmental flows to reform water management policy: Lessons learned from the 2014 Colorado River Delta pulse flow. Ecological Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.02.012
  • Knighton, A. D. (1987). River channel adjustment—the downstream dimension. In: Richards, K.S. (Ed.), River channels: Environment and process (pp. 95–128). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Kondolf, M., & Piegay, H. (2016). Tools in geomorphology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  • Kondolf, M., & Wolman, M. G. (1993). The sizes of salmonid spawning gravels. Water Resources Research, 29(7), 2275–2285. https://doi.org/10.1029/93WR00402
  • Leopold, L. B., & Maddock, T. J. (1953). Hydraulic geometry of stream channel and some physiographic implications: US Geological Survey Professional Paper, 252.
  • Mackin, J. H. (1948). Concept of the Graded River. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 59(5), 463–512. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1948)59[463:COTGR]2.0.CO;2
  • Magilligan, F. J. (2008). The geomorphic function and characteristics of large woody debris in low gradient rivers, coastal Maine, USA. Geomorphology, 97(3-4), 467–482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.08.016
  • Magilligan, F. J. (2016). River restoration by dam removal: Enhancing connectivity at watershed scales. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, 4, 108. https://doi.org/10.12952/journal.elementa.000108
  • Magilligan, F. J., & Nislow, K. H. (2001). Long term changes in regional hydrologic regime following impoundment in a humid climate watershed. Journal of American Water Resources Association, 37(6), 1551–1569. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2001.tb03659.x
  • Magilligan, F. J., Nislow, K. H., & Graber, F. J. (2003). A scale independent assessment of discharge reduction and riparian disconnectivity following flow regulation by dams. Geology, 31(7), 569–572. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0569:SAODRA>2.0.CO;2
  • Marston, R. A. (2005). Effects of Jackson Lake Dam on the Snake River and its floodplain, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA. Geomorphology, 71(1-2), 79–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.03.005
  • Martinez, A. E., Adeyemo, A., & Walther, S. C. (2018). Riparian vegetation and digitized channel variable changes after stream impoundment: The Provo River and Jordanelle reservoir. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 9(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJAGR.2018010102
  • New, T., & Xie, Z. (2008). Impacts of large dams on riparian vegetation: Applying global experience to the case of China’s Three Gorges Dam. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17(13), 3149–3163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-008-9416-2
  • Nilsson, C., & Berggren, K. (2000). Alterations of riparian ecosystems caused by river regulation. Bioscience, 50(9), 783–792. https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0783:AORECB]2.0.CO;2
  • O'Connor, J. (2015). Prioritising the rehabilitation of fish passage in a regulated river system based on fish movement. Ecological Management & Restoration, 16(1), 67–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12140
  • Olsen, D. (2006). Middle Provo River 2006 Monitoring Report. Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission.
  • Parker, G. (2007). 1D sediment transport morphodynamics with applicatins to rivers and turbidity currents. Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System. https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/1D_Sediment_Transport_Morphodynamics_with_applications_to_Rivers_and_Turbidity_Currents.
  • Petts, G., & Pratts, J. (1983). Channel changes following reservoir construction on a Lowland English River. Catena, 10(4), 77–85. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0341-8162(83)80006-X
  • Petts, G. E., & Gurnell, A. M. (2005). Dams and geomorphology: Research progress and future directions. Geomorphology, 71(1-2), 27–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.02.015
  • Phillips, J. D. (2003). Toledo bend reservoir and geomorphic response in the lower Sabine River. River Research and Applications, 19(2), 137–159. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.702
  • Poff, N. L., & Zimmerman, J. K. H. (2010). Ecological responses to altered flow regimes: A literature review to inform the science and management of environmental flows. Freshwater Biology, 55(1), 194–205. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02272.x
  • Pohl, M. (2004). Channel bed mobility Downstream from the Elwha Dams, Washington. The Professional Geographer, 56(3), 422–431. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05603010.x
  • PRWUA. (2016). Provo river water users association. https://www.prwua.org/.
  • Rădoane, M., Rădoane, N., Dumitriu, D., & Miclaus, C. (2007). Downstream variation in bed sediment size along the East Carpathian rivers: Evidence of the role of sediment sources. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33(5), 674–694. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.1568
  • Rahel, F. J., & Olden, J. D. (2008). Assessing the effects of climate change on aquatic invasive species. Conservation Biology, 22(3), 521–533. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00950.x
  • Rengers, F., & Wohl, E. (2007). Trends of grain sizes on gravel bars in the Rio Chagres, Panama. Geomorphology, 83(3), 282–293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.02.019
  • Renshaw, C. E. (2014). Impact of flow regulation on near-channel floodplain sedimentation. Geomorphology, 205, 120–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.03.009
  • Richards, K. (1982). Rivers: Form and process in alluvial channels. Methuen & Co.
  • Richter, B. D., & Thomas, G. A. (2007). Restoring environmental flows by modifying dam operations. Ecology and Society, 12(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02014-120112
  • Rollet, A. J., Piégay, H., Dufour, S., Bornette, G., & Persat, H. (2014). Assessment of consequences of sediment deficit on a gravel river bed downstream of dams in restoration perspectives: Application of a multicriteria, hierarchical and spatially explicit diagnosis. River Research and Applications, 30(8), 939–953. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.2689
  • Ryan Bellmore, J. (2017). Status and trends of dam removal research in the United States. Water, 4(2), e1164. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1164
  • Salant, N. L., Renshaw, C. E., & Magilligan, F. J. (2006). Short and long-term changes to bed mobility and bed composition under altered sediment regimes. Geomorphology, 76(1-2), 43–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.09.003
  • Shields, A. (1936). Anwendung der Aehnlichkeitsmechanik und der Turbulenzforschung auf die Geschiebebewegung. Mitteilungen der Preussiischen Versuchsanstalt fuer Wasserbau und Schiffhau, Heft 26. Shields, A., 1936. English translation by Ott, W.P., and J.C. van Uchelen. Hydrodynamics Laboratory Publication No. 167, Hydrodynamics Lab., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
  • Shields, F. D. J., Simon, A., & Steffen, L. J. (2000). Reservoir effects on downstream river channel migration. Environmental Conservation, 27(1), 54–66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892900000072
  • Shulists, S. (1941). Rational equation of riverbed profile. American Geophysical Union Transactions. pt 3, 622–9.
  • Singer, M. B. (2007). The influence of major dams on hydrology through the drainage network of the Sacramento River Basin, California. River Resource Applications, 23(1), 55–72. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.968
  • Smith, S. V. (2002). Distribution and significance of small, artificial water bodies across the United States landscape. The Science of the Total Environment, 299(1-3), 21–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00222-X
  • Speed, R. (2016). River restoration: A strategic approach to planning and management. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
  • Thrush, W. J., McBain, S. M., & Leopold, L. B. (2000). Attributes of an alluvial river and their relation to water policy and management. PNAS, 97(22), 11858–11863. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.97.22.11858
  • UDNR. (2016). Lower Provo River. http://wildlife.utah.gov/hotspots/brwaterbody.php?id=31.
  • URMCC. (2016). Mitigation and conservation plan 2016 and 2005–2015 annual report. Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission, 152 pp.
  • USGS. (2017). USGS surface-water data.
  • UTI. (2013). Provo River. http://www.utah.com/fish/provo_river.htm.
  • Verde, J. A., & Belk, M. C. (2018). Food web analysis of Jordanelle reservoir, Utah, USA: Where do all the rainbows go? The Open Fish Science Journal, 11(1), 27–35. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874401X01811010027
  • Vericat, D., Batalla, R. J., & Garcia, C. (2006). Breakup and reestablishment of the armour layer in a large gravel-bed river below dams: The lower Ebro. Geomorphology, 76(1-2), 122–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.10.005
  • Vericat, D., Ville, F., Palau-Ibars, A., & Batalla, R. J. (2020). Effets of hydropeaking on bed mobility: Evidence from a Pyrenean River. Water, 12(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12010178
  • Walther, S. C. (2016). Environmental flow development: Geomorphic considerations from the McKenzie River, Oregon. In: Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (pp. 94–119).
  • Ward, J. V., & Stanford, J. A. (1983). The serial discontinuity concept of lotic ecosystems. In T. D. Fontaine, & S. M. Bartell (Eds.), Dynamics of lotic ecosystems (pp. 29–42). Ann Arbor Science.
  • Warner, A. T., Bach, L. B., & Hickey, J. T. (2014). Restoring environmental flows through adaptive reservoir management: Planning, science, and implementation through the sustainable rivers project. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59(3-4), 770–785. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2013.843777
  • Wilcock, P. R. (2001). Toward a practical method for estimating sedimenttransport rates in gravel-bed rivers. Earth Surface Process and Landforms, 26(13), 1395–1408. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.301
  • Williams, G. P., & Wolman, M. G. (1984). Downstream effects of dams on alluvial rivers. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1286(2), 1–61. https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1286
  • Wohl, E. E., & Rathburn, S. (2003). Mitigation of sedimentation hazards downstream from reservoirs. International Journal of Sediment Research, 18(2), 97–106.
  • Zema, D. A., Bombino, G., Denisi, P., Lucas-Borja, M. E., & Zimbone, S. M. (2018). Evaluating the effects of check dams on channel geometry, bed sediment size and riparian vegetation in Mediterranean mountain torrents. Science of The Total Environment, 642, 327–340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.035

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.