Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program

Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program

Long Term Resource Monitoring

 

folder.gif Backwater sedimentation rates
 Rates and Patterns of Net Sedimentation in Backwaters

Tables

Table 1. Number of transects sampled out of the number selected (in parentheses) in the three strata in Pools 4, 8, and 13.
Table 2.  Poolwide mean sedimentation rates (cmּyr­1) for the entire transect, terrestrial portions of transects, and aquatic portions of transects for the period 1997 to 2001 in Pools 4, 8, and 13.  Standard errors of the means are in parentheses.
Table 3.  Annual discharge (m3ּsec­1) as measured by the condition exceeded 5% of the time within each year during our study period.

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