Assessment of Habitat and Streamflow Requirements for Habitat Protection, Usquepaug - Queen River, Rhode Island, 1999-2000;Open file rept

摘要

This report describes the stream habitats, summer water temperatures, and fish communities of the Usquepaug-Queen River, and determines streamflows necessary to maintain aquatic habitat in the Usquepaug-Queen River for the summer period. The study area includes the mainstem and tributaries of the Usquepaug-Queen River upstream from Route 2 in South Kingstown. The report describes results of assessments of stream habitat, fish communities, and stream temperature conducted in 1999 and 2000 for the Usquepaug-Queen River and its tributaries, and compares streamflow requirements determined by means of the Tennant, Wetted-Perimeter, and R2Cross methods to flow-management targets developed by means of the Range of Variability Approach (RVA). Streamflow requirements were determined at seven riffle sites: three on the mainstem Usquepaug-Queen River, and four on the Fisherville Brook and Locke Brook tributaries, and in the headwaters of the Queen River.