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Record: 32    Segment ID: R23-    Stream Name: Winooski River

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Channel Bed and Planform Changes  
5.1 Bar Types  
  Mid Bar 0
  Point Bar 2
  Side Bar 0
  Diagonal Bar 0
  Delta Bar 0
  Island Bar 0
5.2 Migration Features  
  Flood Chutes 0
  Neck Cutoffs 0
  Channel Avulsions 0
  Braiding 0
5.3 Steep Riffles and Head Cuts  
  Steep Riffles 0
  Head Cuts 0
  Tributary Rejuvenation Yes
5.4 Stream Ford or Animal Crossing No
5.5 Channel Alterations  
  Straightening Straightening
  Straightening Length 7,954 ft.
  Dredging None

Comments:
Pebble count was conducted in a riffle that had larger material than was typical throughout reach therefore I listed this as a B4c channel since gravel was the dominant substrate. In the long stretches between riffles there was plenty of sand in the channel indicative of both the low slope and high sediment input from upstream erosion. This is just on the margin of being an E channel but the incision has left very high banks and the floodplain is mostly inaccessible. Widening and planform adjustment should be expected in the future as the river works to develop a new floodplain (already some small new floodplain benches were evident and being colonized by trees.