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Title: Effectiveness Monitoring for Brownsville and Sodom Dam Removals
Creator: Desiree Tullos
Gordon Grant
Date Created and/or Issued: 2007?
Publication Information: Prepared for Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board; Calapooia Watershed Council; Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
Collection: Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI)
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Abstract: The substantial costs, public interest, and benefits associated with removing Brownsville and Sodom dams warrant the documentation of outcomes on the Calapooia River. Physical, chemical, and biological responses are all relevant to these two dam removals, and the proposed monitoring plan describes an efficient and informative series of monitoring activities to document the extent of these responses over time. Specifically, we propose an integration of activities to be performed by the investigators (e.g., channel surveys, bed material characterizations, turbidity, temperature, benthic macroinvertebrate sampling, analysis of aerial photos, analysis of current and historical streamflow), outside agencies such as ODFW (fish surveys), and the Calapooia Watershed Council and Oregon Parks and Recreation (photo points, staff gage observations) for a comprehensive record of the changes in the river associated with the removal of the two dams. This effectiveness monitoring strategy will both assess recovery of the river and contribute to a larger study to (1) document dominant geomorphic processes associated with dam removal and (2) evaluate the reliability of bioindicators for detecting change following dam removal. .
Type: text
Form/Genre: digital copy
Identifier: ark:/86086/n28g8kbt
656
Subject: Pre- and post-project monitoring
Dams
Dam retirement
Place: Calapooia River, OR
Brownsville Dam
Sodom Dam
United States

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