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Sediment Impact Assessment in Streams

This course provides a comprehensive overview of sediment impact assessments for channel design and restoration projects.

Created byHarlan Bengtson, PhD, PE
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BeginnerUpdated Dec 28, 2024
Sediment Impact Assessment in Streams

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand the importance of sediment impact assessments in channel design and restoration projects.
check_circleLearn the types of sediment impact assessments, from visual techniques to numerical models.
check_circleExplore methods for conducting bed stability assessments and analyzing channel responses.
check_circleGain knowledge of factors influencing channel aggradation or degradation and techniques for alluvial channel analysis.

About This Course

This course provides a comprehensive overview of sediment impact assessments for channel design and restoration projects. Highlighted, is the importance of sediment impact assessments in determining the potential for sediment deposition or scouring on the channel bed, which can impact the success of the project. Also covered are the types of sediment impact assessments that can be used, ranging from visual techniques for simple projects to numerical models for complex projects, as well as the importance of a bed stability assessment to determine the anticipated channel bed response and the potential for aggradation or degradation.

Overall, this course provides a detailed guide for conducting sediment impact assessments, which are critical for successful channel design and restoration projects.

Topics:

  • Importance of sediment impact assessments in channel design and restoration projects 
  • Types of sediment impact assessments, including visual and numerical techniques 
  • Steps for conducting sediment impact assessments 
  • Anticipated channel bed response and potential for aggradation or degradation 
  • Bed stability assessment and its importance in channel design 
  • Factors that can cause channel aggradation or degradation 
  • Threshold channels and their sediment impact assessments 
  • Techniques for analyzing alluvial channels 
  • Importance of sediment impact assessments in the design process 
  • Closure loop on proposed design and the role of sediment impact assessments in it.

Publication Source: USDA NRCS

Your Instructor

Harlan Bengtson, PhD, PE
Harlan Bengtson, PhD, PE
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Dr. Harlan Bengtson is an online PDH course provider of continuing education courses for professional engineers. Dr. Bengtson is a graduate of Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees and of the University of Colorado with a PhD. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. Dr. Bengtson has spent 30 years in engineering education in teaching and administrative positions, including six years as Dean of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Dr. Harlan H. Bengtson, PE 33 Grainey Drive Glen Carbon, IL 62034 Phone: (618) 406-6892 E-mail: hnkbengtson@yahoo.com PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Dr. Bengtson is a graduate of Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees and of the University of Colorado with a PhD. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. He has spent 30 years in engineering education in teaching and administrative positions, including six years as Dean of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His areas of expertise are environmental engineering, hydrology and hydraulics, engineering science and renewable energy systems. He has done regular consulting work while holding the academic positions. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Bengtson worked for Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing as a Product Development Engineer and for E. I. duPont deNemours as a Process Development Engineer. Dr. Bengtson has authored numerous publications, presentations and technical reports. He is currently active as a freelance technical writer, author of continuing education courses for Professional Engineers, and is the founder of www.engineeringexceltemplates.com and www.EngineeringExcelSpreadsheets.com, sites with the objective of providing inexpensive, easy to use Excel spreadsheets for a variety of engineering calculations.

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