White River - First Branch

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Record: 3 Segment ID: M01- Stream Name: First Branch of the White River

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Channel Bed and Planform Changes
5.1	Bar Types
	Mid Bar	1
	Point Bar	2
	Side Bar	4
	Diagonal Bar	0
	Delta Bar	0
	Island Bar	0
5.2	Migration Features
	Flood Chutes	4
	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	Straightening
	Straightening Length	2,183 ft.
	Dredging	None

Comments:
Have classed as C-->E stream type departure due to aggradation and loss of planform; see Step 7 comments. Breached dam (Upper Eaton) constricts channel to ~15' in low flow, water overtops most of dam at bankfull; Lower Eaton dam is intact. First 200' of reach could have been included in Reach M02 due to valley wall and depositional features (gravel). Old toy factory mill building on right bank just upstream of intact dam has become an electronics dump; project? Also, garage at Lower Eaton's Trailer Park may have hazardous materials in floodplain. Sand substrate likely due to presence of dams; suspect gravel under reference conditions. Riffles have very little stability, and much of the more prominent deposition DS of the first 200' was organic matter and CPOM.