TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing the sustainability of estuarine barrages
AU - Beevers, L.
AU - Pender, G.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The increasing economic importance ofwaterside development in many cities has been the driver for major investment in barrage construction in the U.K. To ensure the sustainability of these structures it is crucial to understand their impact on sedimentation distribution and re-distribution patterns. As sedimentation is essentially a long-termphenomenon, forecasting of impoundment behavior using a computer model is necessary. This paper presents the results of a computer simulation of long-term (50 year) sediment distribution predictions for the Tees barrage impoundment, a total exclusion barrage built in 1994 and situated in the north-east of England, U.K. The simulations were undertaken using the one-dimensional "ISIS Sediment" modeling software. The upstream boundary conditions, in terms of both flow and sediment, were estimated from data collected on the river at Low Moor, and take account of possible sediment source changes during the 50 year simulation period. The predictions from the model show that after 30 years the impoundment reaches a state of dynamic equilibrium irrespective of sediment supply.
AB - The increasing economic importance ofwaterside development in many cities has been the driver for major investment in barrage construction in the U.K. To ensure the sustainability of these structures it is crucial to understand their impact on sedimentation distribution and re-distribution patterns. As sedimentation is essentially a long-termphenomenon, forecasting of impoundment behavior using a computer model is necessary. This paper presents the results of a computer simulation of long-term (50 year) sediment distribution predictions for the Tees barrage impoundment, a total exclusion barrage built in 1994 and situated in the north-east of England, U.K. The simulations were undertaken using the one-dimensional "ISIS Sediment" modeling software. The upstream boundary conditions, in terms of both flow and sediment, were estimated from data collected on the river at Low Moor, and take account of possible sediment source changes during the 50 year simulation period. The predictions from the model show that after 30 years the impoundment reaches a state of dynamic equilibrium irrespective of sediment supply.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858126568&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1201/NOE0415453639
DO - 10.1201/NOE0415453639
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858126568
SN - 9780415454711
T3 - River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2007 - Proceedings of the 5th IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics
SP - 1101
EP - 1107
BT - River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics
T2 - 5th IAHR-Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, RCEM 2007
Y2 - 17 September 2007 through 21 September 2007
ER -