Battenkill River

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Record: 36 Segment ID: T2.03- Stream Name: Roaring Branch

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Channel Bed and Planform Changes
5.1	Bar Types
	Mid Bar	1
	Point Bar	1
	Side Bar	2
	Diagonal Bar	0
	Delta Bar	0
	Island Bar	0
5.2	Migration Features
	Flood Chutes	1
	Neck Cutoffs	0
	Channel Avulsions	0
	Braiding	0
5.3	Steep Riffles and Head Cuts
	Steep Riffles	0
	Head Cuts	0
	Tributary Rejuvenation	No
5.4	Stream Ford or Animal Crossing	No
5.5	Channel Alterations
	Straightening	None
	Straightening Length	0 ft.
	Dredging	None

Comments:
Short segment which is distinguished from downstream Segment A by degree of vertical stream type departure (C to F). Valley confinement broadens in this segment downstream of the bedrock gorge (Segm C). Chiselville Rd passes through the LB corridor causing a minor human-caused change in valley width (St 1.5); however, this road is only slightly elevated above the floodplain. Historic resources (Beers, 1869; Walling, 1856; Child, 1880) depict mills and industrial activity in Chiselville along the LB corridor of this segment. A diversion channel (from historic impoundments in Segment C) used to lead to a "Chisel Fact." as shown on the Beers map, with water returned to the Roaring Branch channel just downstream of the Arlington-Sunderland town line (Segment A). Today land use in the LB corridor is residential in nature. Two, mostly healed (vegetated) mass failures were observed along the steep RB valley wall.