Geog 370 Hydrology British Columbia地理370 水文不列颠哥伦比亚.pptVIP

Basic Hydrology Water Quality: Sediment production and transport Sediment in streams The significance of sediment in streams has two aspects the water quality aspect is related to suspended sediment unwanted suspended sediment can cause domestic water quality problems, and can cause physical damage to fish supply and movement of coarse sediment in streams is a channel morphology issue excessive coarse sediment in streams can adversely affect fish habitat and fill in water control structures Sediment movement in streams Sediment movement in stream channels can be categorized by grain size or