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Turbidity, Transparency, and Habitat in Tennessee Streams Proceedings from the Virtual 2021 Tennessee Water Resources Symposium Sponsored by: Tennessee Section of the American Water Resources Association In cooperation with the Planning Committee . David Blackwood, West Tennessee River . Daniel Saint, Tennessee Valley Authority Basin Authority . Scott Schoefernacker, CAESER . Mary Bruce, Nashville Metro Water Services . John Schwartz, UT, Civil & Environmental Engineering . Paul Davis, Cumberland River Compact Board of Directors . Dana Waits, Wood, PLC . Jennifer Dodd, TNAWRA President/TDEC, . Forbes Walker, UT, Biosystems Engineering & Division of Water Resources Soil Sciences . Alfred Kalyanapu, Tennessee . Sherry Wang, TDEC, Division of Water Technological University Resources . Deedee Kathman, TNAWRA Secretary . Adrian Ward, Barge Design Solutions, Inc. Tom Lawrence, TLE, PLLC . Lori Weir, TNAWRA Membership Chairperson/USGS . Andrea Ludwig, University of Tennessee . Mike Williams, Stantec . Ingrid Luffman, TNAWRA President- Elect/ETSU, Geosciences . William J. Wolfe, TNAWRA Past President /USGS, ret. Regan McGahen, TNAWRA Treasurer/TDEC-Division of Water Resources Cover Design by Amy Hill, Center for the Management, Utilization & Protection of Water Resources, Tennessee Technological University with photo courtesy of Alan Cressler, U.S. Geological Survey i 2019-2021 TN AWRA OFFICERS o President and Jennifer Dodd Symposium Chair TDEC, Division of Water Resources 312 Rosa L. Parks Avenue, 11th Floor Nashville, TN 37243 Phone: (615) 532-0643 Email: [email protected] o President-Elect Ingrid Luffman East Tennessee State University Geosciences, Ingrid Luffman PO Box 70357 Johnson City, TN 37614-1710 Phone: (423) 439-7551 Email: [email protected] o Past President Bill Wolfe 640 Grassmere Park, Suite 100 Nashville, TN 37211 Phone: (615) 837-4731 Email: [email protected] o Treasurer Regan McGahen TDEC, Division of Water Resources 312 Rosa L. Parks Avenue, 11th Floor Nashville, TN 37243 Phone: (615) 532-0438 Email: [email protected] o Secretary Deedee Kathman Phone: (615) 339-3567 Email: [email protected] o Membership Lori Weir Chair U.S. Geological Survey 640 Grassmere Park, Suite 100 Nashville, TN 37211 Phone: (615) 837-4720 E-mail: [email protected] ii 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 Keynote Address by Dr. Andreas Fath, Furtwangen University, Germany PLASTIC COCKTAILS IN RIVERS Plastic use continues to increase countries. It is an example of how and in worldwide, and most of these plastics are which extent human activities changes single use. From 1950 until 2015, 8.3 the water quality in rivers. The billion tons of plastic were produced. The comparison of two cultures demonstrates majority of these polymer products end up the significant interaction between in landfills (79%). Only 9% are recycled, people and nature. In that context I and the remaining 12% are combusted. consider our contribution as an Projecting the production of synthetic important work to motivate other polymers indicates a worldwide mass of environmental water researchers and 34 billion tons will be produced by 2050. biologists to continue with microplastic Due to the increasing consumption and analysis in tributaries and aquatic life. therefore increasing production of plastic, Moreover, microplastics in aquatic the pollution of the environment with systems have the potential to adsorb plastic waste grows likewise. So-called some of the pollutants from the chemical microplastic (MP) particles with a diameter cocktail found in fresh water and marine below 500 µm can be detected in almost systems, with the potential for harmful every stretch of water on the surface of the effects to organisms upon ingestion. earth. After swimming and analyzing the Production of Microplastic out of plastic whole Tennessee River and the Rhine litter could use these adhesion properties to River we understood that the produce filter material. A promising environmental pollution with plastics is strategy to reduce littering and increase the obviously based on the differences in rate of recycling. plastic waste treatment in different iii SESSION 1A SESSION 1B FLOOD MITIGATION HYDROLOGICAL ANALYSES (Moderator: Adrian Ward, Barge Design (Moderator: Rodney Knight, USGS) Solutions, Inc.) Recalibration at Stinking Pond: Climate Tennessee Valley Set New Annual Rainfall Extremes and Hydroperiod Change in a Record in 2020 Tennessee Karst Wetland D. Guinn…....……….......…………….1A-1 Jennifer Cartwright and William Wolfe.………………….……..….…….1B-1 Flood Mitigation for Luxury Apartment Building Development of a 2D Model in St. Arbor Janelle Schlamp...….........…………….1A-2 Wetland for an Assessment of Levee Breaching Staying High and Dry: Flood Mitigation on Mackenzie Martin, Collins Owusu, Nusrat the Mississippi River Jannah Snigdha, Alfred J. Kalyanapu, and Clayton Foster..…...........…..………….1A-3 Justin Murdock…………………...…....1B-2 CHANNEL EROSION Radon in Tennessee Residential Well Water (Moderator: David Blackwood, West TN Ingrid Luffman, Judy Manners, and C. River Basin Authority) Nicole Bailey…...……….....………….1B-3 Relationships Between Physical- HYDROLOGY & GROUNDWATER Geochemical Soil Properties and Erodibility (Moderator: Brian Waldron, CAESER) of Streambanks: Surficial Geology as an Overlooked Contributor Geochemical and Environmental Tracer Badal Mahalder and John Schwartz…..1A-4 Evidence for Production of Modern Water in the Shaw Wellfield, Memphis, Tennessee A Modified Mini-JET Device for Estimating Kate M. Moore...………….……..…….1B-9 Erodbility Factors on Agricultural Soils David Zumr, Michal Vrána, Josef Krása, Groundwater Pumping Optimization to Tomáš Dostál John Schwartz, and Badal Minimize Contaminant Movement from the Mahalder…….......................………….1A-5 Shallow Aquifer to the Memphis Aquifer Using Stochastic Modeling Improving Stream Bank Erosion Estimates Sondipon Paul……….................…….1B-10 by Adjusting the Applied Shear Stress for Different Bank Characteristics Fluorescent Dye Tracing as a Tool for Justin C. Condon and John S. Contaminant Source Tracking in a Highly Schwartz………..……........….……….1A-7 Heterogeneous and Anisotropic Karst Aquifer, Gallatin, Tennessee Lee Anne Bledsoe, Chris Groves, and Autumn Singer...……………………..1B-11 iv Effectively Accounting for the Effects of SESSION 1C Urbanization in Stream Quantification Tools POSTER SESSION Grace Long…..…………..…………...1C-12 Evaluation of Tropical Cyclone Flood Operation Clean: Capacity Enhancement Discharges Estimated with Rainfall from with Landscape Modification Using an Parametric Models for Flood Risk Studies Ecological Approach for Adsorption and John T. Brackins and Alfred J. Natural Recharge Kalyanapu……………………………..1C-1 Beau Neidich, Carmen Harvey, Adam Belton, Abbey Burton, Riley Ellis, Syed The Invasive Alga Didymosphenia geminata Tareq, Jejal Bathi………..…………...1C-13 Alters Larval Chironomid Diversity and Feeding Structure Wear Reconstructing Historical Wetland Surface P.W. Blum, M.W. Green, S.R. Tuberty, and Water Hydrographs Through Remote J.N. Murdock……...…………………..1C-2 Sensing, Machine Learning, A\and Cloud Computing Dissolved Organic Carbon within Stream Collins Owusu, Nusrat Jannah Snigdha, Waters of Great Smoky Mountains National Mackenzie T. Martin, Alfred J. Kalyanapu, Park Following Reductions in Atmospheric and Justin Murdock….…..…………...1C-14 Acidic Deposition Jason R. Brown………………………..1C-3 Smart Cities: Using Location-Based IoT and GIS Dashboards to Monitor Flooding Factors Affecting Denitrification Estimates Chelsie Perkins and Ingrid Luffman....1C-15 within Restored Floodplain Habitats Robert G. Brown……...……...………..1C-5 Comparison of Water Quality Between Richland Creek and the Little Harpeth River Automated Flood Forecasting System for in Nashville, TN, 2019 Window Cliffs State Natural Area, TN Joseph Elbon, Aleyna Loughran Pierce, and George K. Darkwah and Alfred J. Katie Madole…………..……………..1C-19 Kalyanapu……..……...……...………..1C-6 Impact of Water pH on Fate and Transport Assessing Karst Springwater as a Private of Carbon Nanotubes Water Supply Source in Northeast Astha Sinha…………………………..1C-21 Tennessee: Developing a Sampling Strategy Lukman Fashina and Ingrid Luffman....1C-7 Watershed-Wide Stormwater Management in an Underserved Community of Tennessee Priority Areas for Managed Aquifer Through Community-University Partnership Recharge by Infiltration Galleries in Maci Arms, Hugh Thomas Harris, Alfred Eastern Arkansas Kalyanapu, and Tania Datta…...……..1C-22 Sarah Houston, Heather Mullenax, Allegra Pieri, Jarod Przybylski, Michele Reba, and Flash Flooding Prediction of Cummins Deborah Leslie……………..………...1C-11 Falls State Park Jason R. Gentry and Evan Hart..……..1C-23 v Towards Smart Cities: Retrofit of Urban STORMWATER MANAGEMENT Infrastructure for Sustainable Operation (Moderator: Daniel Saint, TVA) Carmen Harvey, Beau Neidich, Riley Ellis, Adam Belton, and Jejal Bathi…....…..1C-24 Urban Floodplain Reconnection through Regenerative Stormwater Conveyances SESSION 2A Gillian Palino, Jessica Thompson, John Schwartz, and Jon Hathaway......…….2A-11 CHANNEL PROCESSES AND RESTORATION Case Study – Unique Stormwater (Moderator: Bill Wolfe, USGS, ret.) Management with High Flow Bioretention Systems Comparing Cultural Objectives and Design Glen Payton…………………….....…2A-12 Criteria Between Stream Revitalization in the Czech Republic and Stream Restoration Quantifying the Hydrologic and Water in the United States Quality Impact of a Real-Time Controlled John S. Schwartz, Tomas Dostal, Petr Dry Detention Basin Koudelka, and Karina Bynum..……….2A-1 Aaron
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