In-Channel Sediment Basins: An Alternative to Dam-Style Debris Basins

Authors

Wendy S. Gist, US Army Corps of Engineers
Scott E. Stonestreet, US Army Corps of Engineers
Ronald R. Copeland, US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1992

Comments

Published in Hydraulic Engineering: Saving a Threatened Resource—In Search of Solutions: Proceedings of the Hydraulic Engineering sessions at Water Forum ’92. Baltimore, Maryland, August 2–6, 1992. Published by American Society of Civil Engineers.

Abstract

In-channel sediment basins were designed, in lieu of a traditional debris basin, to capture large sediment loads at the upstream end of a proposed flood control channel. A numerical model, HEC-6, was used to size the basins.