WOTS Reservoir Erosion Control and Revegetation Workshop and Demonstration, Volume 1, No. 1

摘要

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages natural resources in more than 2,000 watersheds in the United States. These include about 460 water resource development projects (primarily reservoirs) where nearly 12 million acres of land and water are owned in public trust. According to a survey by Allen and Wade (1991) under the Water Operations Technical Support (WOTS) program, many of these reservoirs have a considerable amount of shoreline erosion that can adversely impact aquatic and riparian habitats as well as numerous other factors, such as water quality. Most of the extreme erosion problems can be found in Corps Divisions and Districts having reservoirs within the central prairie zones of the United States. Missouri is one state containing reservoirs with such problems and Smithville Lake, Missouri, is one example.