Comments:
Segment flows through very broad valley setting defined by merging of Warm Brook and Fayville Branch floodplains. Slight human-caused change in valley width caused by East Arlington Rd in LB corridor; enough to cause change in valley type (Very Broad to Narrow), but not sufficient to change reference confinement type (unconfined). Light-density residential development in both LB and RB corridors. Channel is slightly incised (historically), and exhibits a plane bed form. Hale Co. dam, located approximately 650 ft downstream of confluence with Warm Brook, appears to have impoundment effect that extends upstream into the segment. Historic resources (Beers, 1869; Henry, 1993 ) indicate that a dam was located in this vicinity at least back to the mid-1800s. Gradient of this segment (0.5%) is considerably less than upstream segments. Bed materials are dominated by coarse gravels, in constrast to small cobbles and boulders of upstream segments. Some sediment has accumulated to form a mid-channel bar upstream of a debris jam. Historic dredging and straightening is inferred from linear planform and anecdotal accounts.