SEDHYD
Reservoir Sedimentation and Sustainable Management
Sedimentation management is critically important to the future of the nation’s reservoirs and all the benefits they provide. SEDHYD is providing useful information on this important topic from the National Reservoir Sedimentation and Sustainability Team, which is comprised of engineers and scientists from multiple Federal and local agencies, universities, consultants, and industry.
2023 Field Visit
Louisiana's Old River Control Auxiliary Structure
This photo was taken during a recent meeting on FISP and SEDHYD in New Orleans. Participants were from the Bureau of Reclamation, USGS, USACE, USDA-ARS, US Society of Dams, NPS, University of Colorado and St Louis University.
White Paper
Reservoir Sediment Management: Building a Legacy of Sustainable Water Storage Reservoirs
Free video and recorded webinars (see below)
CIRES and the Western Water Assessment sponsor a webinar series on Reservoir Sedimentation and Sustainability.
The nation's 90,000 dams and reservoirs constitute a critical component of the country's infrastructure ensuring the stability of water and energy supplies and flood risk management. However, the reservoir storage capacity, essential to meeting these purposes, has been filling with sediment (clay, silt, sand, gravel, and cobble).
The Subcommittee on Sedimentation's National Reservoir Sedimentation and Sustainability Team presents on sustainable solutions to reservoir sediment management.
Introductory Video about Sedimentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ-Y8ClEpgw&feature=youtu.be
Watch the following Recorded Webinars:
Reservoir Sedimentation Management – Big Deal! Why should we even care about it?
Dr. George Annandale, P.E.
Sedimentation Management Alternatives at Reservoirs
Dr. Greg Morris, P.E.
https://cires.colorado.edu/events/reservoir-sedimentation-management-options-and-data-needs
Sedimentation Management for Multi-Purpose Reservoirs: A Federal Perspective
Dr. Tim Randle, P.E. and Dr. Paul Boyd, P.E.
Permitting for reservoir sediment management
Dr. Rollin Hotchkiss, P.E. and David Olson
https://cires.colorado.edu/events/permitting-reservoir-sedimentation-management
Reservoir sedimentation monitoring
Dr. Greg Morris, P.E.
https://cires.colorado.edu/events/sedimentation-monitoring
Economics of Sustainable Reservoir Sediment Management
Dr. George Annandale, P.E. and
Dr. Rollin Hotchkiss, P.E.
https://cires.colorado.edu/events/economics-sustainable-reservoir-sediment-management
Building a Legacy of Sustainable Water Storage Reservoirs
Missouri Sedimentation Action Coalition
Webinar Recorded December 12, 2019
Duration: 60 Minutes
Dr. Tim Randle, P.E., D.WRE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbXc_4u8DS4
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Sustaining United States reservoir storage capacity: Need for a new paradigm.
Randle, Timothy J., et al. “Sustaining United States Reservoir Storage Capacity: Need for a New Paradigm.” Journal of Hydrology, vol. 602, 14 July 2021, p. 126686., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126686.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169421007344
Sediment Mismanagement Puts Reservoirs and Ecosystems at Risk
Tullos, D., P. A. Nelson, R. H. Hotchkiss, and D. Wegner (2021), Sediment mismanagement puts reservoirs and ecosystems at risk, Eos, 102, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO157145. Published on 14 April 2021.
https://eos.org/opinions/sediment-mismanagement-puts-reservoirs-and-ecosystems-at-risk