Potash brook

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Record: 7 Segment ID: M06- Stream Name: Postash Brook Mainstem

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Channel Bed and Planform Changes
5.1	Bar Types
	Mid Bar	2
	Point Bar	0
	Side Bar	2
	Diagonal Bar	2
	Delta Bar	0
	Island Bar	1
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	No
5.4	Stream Ford or Animal Crossing	No
5.5	Channel Alterations
	Straightening	None
	Straightening Length	0 ft.
	Dredging	None

Comments:
Channel through this reach appears to have been historically straightened - possibly due to logging activity in east woods area. Straightening, and increased streamflows from stormwater has caused riffle-pool system to be replaced by plane bed system. Many bars and changes in planform suggest this reach is going through adjustments from historic/current degradation and some current aggradation. Assessed at Stage III but could be somewhere in between II and III.