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Building sandbars in Grand Canyon

Boatman’s Quarterly Review

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Abstract

Now, by implementing a new strategy that calls for repeated releases of large volumes of water from the dam, the U.S. Department of the Interior seeks to increase the size and number of these sandbars. Three years into the “High Flow Experiment” protocol, the releases appear to be achieving the desired effect. Many sandbars have increased in size following each controlled flood and the cumulative results of the first three releases suggests that sandbar declines may be reversed if controlled floods can be implemented frequently enough.
Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Building sandbars in Grand Canyon
Series title Boatman’s Quarterly Review
Volume 28
Issue 4
Year Published 2016
Language English
Publisher Boatmen's Quarterly review
Contributing office(s) Southwest Biological Science Center
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