Placement of dead wood and debris

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Introduction

Figure 1: Dead wood placed in the river creating shelter and shading for fish

The placement of dead wood in the river can be an efficient measure in rivers with limited shelter and morphological variation, being an alternative to placement of stones and larger substrate in the river (Pulg et al 2017). In addition to shelter and more morphological variation dead wood would gradually degrade and provide organic material to the river. The size and the exact placement of the dead wood should be done after considering the variations in the local hydraulic conditions, but it seems like this measure is less suitable if the rivers are steep.

It should be assessed if the placement of wood in the river would affect the conveyance capacity during floods. If the river is used for navigation, transportation of timber, etc., placement of wood in the river is probably a less feasible measure.

Methods, tools, and devices

During planning

The approach to assess the suitability of this measure would be to investigate if shelter and morphological variation seem to be limiting the development of the fish populations. If this is the case, the introduction of dead wood should be considered introduced, on equal basis with other measures mitigating the same problem. If the conveyance capacity is critical, the effect of the introduction dead wood should be considered. Standard tools for hydraulic calculations can potentially be used, but according the authors' knowledge, this has to a very little extent been done.

During implementation

Access to local wood would make to construction of this measure very simple, by simply bringing a chain saw and dragging the timber to a proper place in the river where the wood would not drift away as soon as the water level increases.

During operation

There is basically no maintenance needed for this measure, except that the process of adding dead trees might be needed to be repeated if the wood is gradually degraded or drifts away in larger parts. Monitoring of the effect of the measure can be done by for instance electro-fishing in order to assess the density of juvenile fish and compare this to densities in sections where shelter is limited.

Useful MTDs

Relevant MTDs
Acoustic Doppler velocimetry (ADV)
Acoustic telemetry
CASiMiR
Current meter
Differential pressure sensor base artificial lateral line probe, iRon
Double Averaging method
FLOW-3D
HEC-RAS
LiDAR
OpenFOAM
Particle image velocimetry (PIV)
Radio frequency identification with passive integrated transponder (PIT tagging)
Radio telemetry
River2D
Sediment simulation in intakes with Multiblock option (SSIIM)
Shelter measurements
Structure from motion (SfM)
TELEMAC
Visible implant elastomer
Relevant test cases Applied in test case?
Altheim test case Yes
Günz test case -

Classification Table

Classification Selection
Fish species for the measure Gravel spawners
Does the measure require loss of power production -
-
Structural (requires no additional flow release)
Recurrence of maintenance Less often than yearly
Which life-stage of fish is measure aimed at Spawning / Recruitment
Juveniles
Adult fish
Movements of migration of fish
Which physical parameter is addressed -
-
-
Substrate and hyporheic zone
Water temperature
-
Water velocity
Water depth
Hydropower type the measure is suitable for Plant in dam
Plant with bypass section
Dam height (m) the measure is suitable for All
Section in the regulated system measure is designed for -
-
Bypass section
Downstream outlet
River type implemented -
Fairly steep with rocks, boulders (from 0.4 to 0.05 %)
Slow flowing, lowland, sandy (less than 0.05 %)
Level of certainty in effect Moderately certain
Technology readiness level TRL 9: actual system proven in operational environment
Cost of solution See cost table