Accession Number:

AD0743333

Title:

Sedimentation Aspects Project for Navigation and Flood Control, Lower Colorado River, Texas.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

COMMITTEE ON CHANNEL STABILIZATION (ARMY)

Personal Author(s):

• Lindner,C. P.
• Fenwick,G. B.

Report Date:

1972-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

28.0

Abstract:

Contents Gulf Intracoastal Waterway GIWW, mouth of Colorado River Tributary navigation channel in Colorado River Model study data the rafts transport and distribution of sediment increase in river slopes saltwater penetration nature of shoal material above the GIWW past maintenance and implications thereof stability of bed and banks value of continued maintenance dredging practices control of points at which sediment is discharged methods of reducing sediment discharged into the Bay flushing methods navigation channel maintenance.

Descriptors:

• (*RIVERS
• SEDIMENTATION)
• TRANSPORT PROPERTIES
• INLAND WATERWAYS
• STABILIZATION
• HYDRAULIC MODELS
• COASTAL REGIONS
• SALTS
• TERRAIN
• DRAINAGE
• MAINTENANCE
• BAYS
• MAPS
• TEXAS
• DAMS
• NAVIGATION
• FLOODS
• CONTROL

Subject Categories:

• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology
• Civil Engineering

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE