Water Stewardship Information Sources
| Citation | Hudson, R. 2001. Storm-based sediment budgets in a partially harvested watershed in coastal British Columbia. Forest Research Technical Report TR-009, Vancouver Forest Region. |
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| Organization | FLNRO |
| URL | https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/rco/research/hydroreports/tr009.pdf |
| Abstract/Description or Keywords | A program of sediment-budget research commenced in 1994 at Russell Creek, a sub-basin of the Tsitika River watershed on Northeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Part of the program aimed to determine the relative contribution of different types of sediment sources to the sediment load of mainstem channel sites in Russell Creek and its main tributary, Stephanie Creek, which are two typical Coastal British Columbia streams. The report describes a sediment-budget model that predicts the sediment yield from gullies, forestry-road-related sources, and landslides based on attributes of the sediment sources and storm rainfall characteristics. The sediment-budget model will help forest managers assess the effects of forestry activities on sediment production in streams, and the related implications for fish habitat. The model will also be useful to forestry-road-deactivation planners in predicting the effectiveness of road-deactivation scenarios. |
| Information Type | report |
| Regional Watershed | Vancouver Island North |
| Sub-watershed if known | Tsitika, Russell Creek |
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| Project status | complete |
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