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Articles | Volume 28, issue 5
Articles | Volume 28, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1173-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1173-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 28, issue 5
Research article
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07 Mar 2024
Research article |  | 07 Mar 2024

Check dam impact on sediment loads: example of the Guerbe River in the Swiss Alps – a catchment scale experiment

Ariel Henrique do Prado, David Mair, Philippos Garefalakis, Chantal Schmidt, Alexander Whittaker, Sebastien Castelltort, and Fritz Schlunegger

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Engineering structures known as check dams are built with the intention of managing streams. The effectiveness of such structures can be expressed by quantifying the reduction of the sediment flux after their implementation. In this contribution, we estimate and compare the volumes of sediment transported in a mountain stream for engineered and non-engineered conditions. We found that without check dams the mean sediment flux would be ca. 10 times larger in comparison with the current situation.
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