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Record: 10    Segment ID: M07-    Stream Name: Cold River

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Channel Bed and Planform Changes  
5.1 Bar Types  
  Mid Bar 0
  Point Bar 0
  Side Bar 1
  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 No
5.4 Stream Ford or Animal Crossing No
5.5 Channel Alterations  
  Straightening With Windrowing
  Straightening Length 789 ft.
  Dredging Dredging

Comments:
This short segment veers away from Cold River Road and so is not as encroached as the upstream and downstream segments. There is floodplain access in this reach although some windrowing of dredged materials has reduced the degree to which the floodplain can be accessed. This area seems like an important resource given the high degree of floodplain loss that has occurred upstream and dowstream. The stream is somewhat incised in this segment, however, so flows just over bankfull are not necessarily spilling into a floodplain.