Hyporheic exchange flow around constructed in-channel structures and implications for restoration design

In-channel rock vane structures are widely used in stream restoration as a way to reduce stream channel erosion and create pool or riffle features. When these structures change hydraulic gradients they may affect ecological stream functions, such as hyporheic exchange flow (HEF) patterns. A study of...

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Published in:Hydrological processes 2009-04, Vol.23 (8), p.1158-1168
Main Authors: Crispell, Jill K, Endreny, Theodore A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Batavia Kill
Catskill Mountains
cross-vanes
Earth sciences
Earth, ocean, space
ecological engineering
Exact sciences and technology
Hydrology
Hydrology. Hydrogeology
J-hooks
stream restoration
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Summary:In-channel rock vane structures are widely used in stream restoration as a way to reduce stream channel erosion and create pool or riffle features. When these structures change hydraulic gradients they may affect ecological stream functions, such as hyporheic exchange flow (HEF) patterns. A study of constructed in-channel structure controls on HEF was conducted in the third-order Batavia Kill, New York using stream and hyporheic temperature amplitude analysis and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) hydraulic simulations. Temperature monitors were installed in the water column and channel bed at six locations around each of seven in-channel restoration structures (three cross-vanes and four J-hooks) at baseflow in 2007. Elevation surveys of the structures were then used to simulate HEF using CFD. The results indicate a pattern of pronounced upwelling in the run section just below the structure, upwelling transitioning to downwelling within the pool, and pronounced downwelling in the glide out of the pool. This pattern is consistent with natural riffle pool sequences. The direction of HEF inferred from the temperature amplitude analysis agreed with the direction of flow simulated with CFD at 80% of the locations, and the few disagreements were expected due to model limitations. CFD simulation demonstrated that increasing stream flows result in changes in HEF spatial patterns and magnitude at each structure. This work illustrates how CFD simulations can guide design of in-channel restoration structures for HEF function. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:0885-6087
1099-1085
DOI:10.1002/hyp.7230