REGIONAL CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS FOR MAINTAINING NATURAL FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY IN FLORIDA STREAMS

This study was conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to develop regional curves in two hydrophysiographic regions of the Florida Panhandle Coastal Plain: the Northwest Florida Coastal Plain and the North Florida Coastal Plain. For the purpose of this study, the Florida Panhandle was loosely defined as the region from the Suwannee River basin west, to the border of Alabama. Due to a limited number of survey sites in the region, the Northwest Florida Coastal Plain curves were augmented with two sites from the Alabama Middle Coastal Plain, and the North Florida Coastal Plain curves were augmented with six sites from the Georgia Middle Coastal Plain (described as Lower Coastal Plain by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT)). The regional curves were developed by studying naturally stable stream channels that have been formed by existing rainfall, stream flow, geology, soils, and vegetation. Detailed stream information was collected through surveys of the channels. The survey data were then used to create the mathematical relationships of the regional curves.

• Record URL:
  https://fdotwww.blob.core.windows.net/sitefinity/docs/default-source/research/reports/fdot-bd470-final.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

  Panama City Fisheries Resource Office, 1601 Balboa Avenue
  Panama City, FL  United States  32405

  Florida Department of Transportation

  605 Suwannee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Authors:
  • Metcalf, C
• Publication Date: 2004-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Channels (Waterways); Coasts; Curves (Geometry); Flow; Geology; Geomorphology; Mathematical relations; Rainfall; Regions; Soils; Streams; Surveys; Vegetation
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00986342
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 7 2005 12:00AM