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Rehabilitation of a Severed Meander Bendway: Effects of Flow Augmentation - Study Site
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Study Site
This study was conducted in a 2.5-km-long severed meander bendway adjacent to the Coldwater River in Tunica County, Mississippi, USA.  The bendway is inside the Coldwater River mainstem flood control levee, and is the result of a 0.4 km cutoff constructed in 1941-42.  The study reach is about 20 km downstream of Arkabutla Dam, a flood control structure in northwestern Mississippi, USA.  Land-use both inside and outside the bendway are in row-crop cultivation; however, there is a buffer of natural vegetation 5-100 m wide on both banks.
Flow Augmentation
Water Quality

 Results were monitored at three sites spaced along the bendway.

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