50272-101 



REPORT DOCUWENTATrON. 

 PAOC 



1. REPORT NO. 



FWS/08S-80/08 



3. Recipient's Accession No. 



4. Title and Subtitle 



GRAVEL REMOVAL STUDIES IN ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC FLOODPLAINS 

 IN ALASKA - TECHNICAL REPORT 



5. Report Date 



June 1980, Pub. date 



7. Author(s) 



8. Performing Organization Rept. No. 



WOODWARD-CLYDE CONSULTANTS 



9. Performing Organization Name and Address 



Woodward-Clyde Consultants 



4971 Business Park Blvd., Suite #1 



Anchorage, Alaska 99503 



10. Project/Tssk/Work Unit No. 



II. Contract(C) or Grant(G) No. 



(C)FWS 14-16-0008-970 



(G) 



12. Sponsoring Organization Name and Address 



U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 1011 East Tudor Road 

 Anchorage, Alaska 99503 



13. Type of Report & Period Covered 



Final Report 

 1975 - 1980 



14. 



IS. Supplementary Notes 



This report is part of Interagency Energy - Environment Research and Development Program 

 of the Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 



16. Abstract (Limit: 200 words) 



A 5-year investigation 

 and biological charact 

 is described. Twenty-f 

 sites were selected su 

 a wide range of river 

 covered the major disc 

 quality, and terrestri 

 tics site reviews were 

 biological changes wer 

 observed at some sites 

 hydraulics, sedimentat 

 macroi nvertebrates, fi 

 mammal usage. 



of the effects of f 

 er ist ics of r i ver sy 

 ive sites were studi 

 ch that within each 

 and mining character 

 iplines of hydrology 

 al biology. In addit 



conducted. A wide r 

 e observed in respon 

 , whereas other site 

 ion, ice regime, aqu 

 sh ut i I izat ion , vege 



loodplain gravel mining on th 

 stems in arctic and subarctic 

 ed within four geographic reg 

 of the regions the group of s 

 istics. The field data col lee 

 /hydraulics, aquatic biology, 

 ion, geotechnical engineering 

 ange of magnitude and type of 

 se to mining activity. Little 

 s exhibited changes in channe 

 atic habitat, water quality, 

 tation, soil characteristics. 



e physical 



Alaska 

 ions. The 

 ites exhibited 

 tion program 



water 

 , and aesthe- 



physical and 



change was 

 I morphology, 

 benth ic 



and bird and 



Two major products of the project are a Technical Report which synthesizes and 



evaluates the data collected at the sites, and a Guidelines Manual that aids the 



user in developing plans and operating material sites to minimize environmental 

 ef fects. 



17. Document Analysis a. Descriptors 



Gravel Removal, Alaska, Arctic, Subarctic, Floodplains, Streams, Scraping, Pit 

 Excavation, Environmental Impacts, Hydrology-Hydraulics, Aquatic Biology, Terrestrial 

 Ecology, Water Quality, Aesthetics, Geotechnical Engineering, Site Selection, Site 

 Design. 



b. IdentlFiers/Open-Ended Terms 



c. COSATI Field/Group 



18. Availability Statement 



Release un I imi ted 



19. Security Class (This Report) 



Unci assi f ied 



20. Security Class (This Page) 



Unci assi f ied 



21. No. of Pages 

 403 



22. Price 



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