Backwater Sedimentation in Navigation Pools 4 and 8 of the Upper Mississippi River

Description

Transects in backwaters of Navigation Pools 4 and 8 of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) were established in 1997 to measure sedimentation rates. Annual surveys were conducted from 1997-2002 and then some transects surveyed again in 2017-18. Changes and patterns observed were reported on in 2003 for the 1997-2002 data, and a report summarizing changes and patterns from 1997-2017 will be reported on at this time. Several variables are recorded each survey year and placed into an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheets are read with a SAS program to generate a SAS dataset used in SAS programs to determine rates, depth loss, and associations between depth and change through regression.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5fb53682d34eb413d5e139c6.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9D467M3

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  • upper-mississippi-river
  • none
  • mississippi-river
  • usgs-5fb53682d34eb413d5e139c6
  • biota
  • erosion
  • navigational-pool
  • sedimentation

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