Impacts of river engineering on river channel behaviour : implications for managing downstream flood risk Heritage, G and Entwistle, NS http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12051355 Title Impacts of river engineering on river channel behaviour : implications for managing downstream flood risk Authors Heritage, G and Entwistle, NS Type Article URL This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/56972/ Published Date 2020 USIR is a digital collection of the research output of the University of Salford. Where copyright permits, full text material held in the repository is made freely available online and can be read, downloaded and copied for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Please check the manuscript for any further copyright restrictions. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at:
[email protected]. water Article Impacts of River Engineering on River Channel Behaviour: Implications for Managing Downstream Flood Risk George Heritage 1 and Neil Entwistle 2,* 1 AquaUoS, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK;
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[email protected] Received: 30 March 2020; Accepted: 5 May 2020; Published: 11 May 2020 Abstract: Although knowledge of sediment transport has improved over the last 25 years, our understanding of bedload transfer and sediment delivery is still based on a limited set of observations or on models that make assumptions on hydraulic and sediment transport processes. This study utilises repeat lidar survey data of the River Caldew above the City of Carlisle in the UK to investigate the balance of erosion and deposition associated with channel switching from an engineered and managed single thread channel to a naturalising incipient wandering system.