Site Planning 

 Section II 



Site planning should incorporate the SITE PREPARATION, SITE OPERATION, 

 and SITE CLOSURE guidelines presented in Sections V, VI, and VII. 



A. GENERAL GUIDELINES 



1. If the technical method of gravel removal has not been determined 

 during site selection, then either scraping, pit excavation, dredg- 

 ing or a combination can be chosen by reviewing the SITE OPERATION 

 gu i de I i nes 



2. Design of the specific work area boundaries should incorporate 

 the following factors: 



a. Site configurations should avoid use of long straight lines 

 and be shaped to blend with physical features and surroundings 

 (Figure 2) : 



• Scraping point bars of meandering and sinuous systems to 

 maintain slopes and contours resembling those of the natural 

 bars 



• Scraping mid-channel and lateral bars of braided systems, 

 to maintain natural gravel bar shapes 



• Excavating pits to provide irregular shorelines with curved 

 configurations, islands, spits, and diverse shoreline depths 



b. Vegetated areas should not be disturbed when sufficient quanti- 

 ties of gravel can be obtained within prescribed buffers in 

 unvegetated areas of floodplains (buffers guidelines are in 

 Section V A 3 and Appendix A) 



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