Marcellus Sediment Control Project National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Grant No. 0603.14.045237 James Shallenberger Monitoring & Protection Program Manager Susquehanna River Basin Commission Hydrologic Capture Zone (HCZ) “Rural Road Ecology” What I hope you Take from this Presentation: . Road are Forever (Permanent) parts of the landscape. Roads interfere with Natural Hydrology processes. Roads concentrate Energy & Matter. Roads catalyze watershed Change. Roads can be Designed, Built, Maintained, Restored, or Rehabilitated to be more Compatible with Aquatic Resources. Grays Run/Lycoming County Circa 2010 Grays Run/Lycoming County Circa 2013 Before Getting to this … Human Contemporary Bias Susquehanna Basin Forest Cover thru Time (STORM) HYDROLOGY IN AN UNDEVELOPED LANDSCAPE Very Little Aboveground Flow Storm Hydrograph: pre- /post- Development Generalized Annual Water Balance For Common Land Use Types City Suburb Cropland Park Forest 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Through Flow Runoff Evapo-Transporation Base Flow Aquifer Recharge Marcellus Sediment Control Project: Continuous In-stream Monitoring Data 4 Ways that Flow Interacts with Roads Hydrologic Capture Zone (HCZ) Roads = Permanence Hydrologic Capture Zone MARCELLUS SEDIMENT CONTROL PROJECT Catchment Study Group Landscape Attributes Catchment in Hydrologic Capture Zone (%) 0.65 0.60 0.55 0.50 0.45 0.40 0.35 0.30 0.25 0.20 Sugar Creek; 14 Upper Crooked Creek; 11 Starrucca Creek; 9 Elk Run; 15 Blockhouse Creek; 13 Sugar Run; 6 Snake Creek; 8 Marsh Creek (Clearfield); 16 Larry's Creek; 1 Tioga River; 12 Wappasening Creek; 10 E. Fork Sinnemahoning Creek; 2 Hicks Run; 7 Trout Run; 3 Baker Run; 4 Catchment Study Group (no. refers to to Map ID) (no. refers Group Study Catchment E. Branch Fishing Creek; 5 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Percent Land Cover Classes Developed Agro Forest Road Hydrologic Capture Zone Scatterplot of Turb vs %HCZ, %forest, %ag %HCZ %forest SUGR SUGR Sugar Run Sugar Run 1.00 Elk Elk 0.75 C RO K C RO K EA STT iFogoark TEioAgSaT F ork BLO C BLO C 0.50 Hicks Hicks EB F ish EB F ish TRO T TRO T 0.25 Baker Baker 0.00 b r u 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.640 60 80 100 T %ag SUGR 1.00 Sugar Run Linear Regression Equations: Elk 0.75 C RO K NTU = 0.29 + 0.01 (%Agro) r2 = 50.7 EA ST TFioorgka 0.50 BLO C 2 Hicks NTU = 1.56 – 0.014 (%Forest) r = 59.5 0.25 ETBR FOisTh 2 0.00 Baker NTU = -0.60 + 2.70 (%HCZ) r = 78.1 0 15 30 45 60 DIGITAL TERRAIN ANALYSIS TOPOGRAPHIC WETNESS INDEX (TWI) Contributing Area + Horizontal Curvature : Concentrate (concave) or Disperse (convex) Flow + Vertical Curvature: Accelerate (convex) or Decelerate (concave) Flow Concentrated & Dispersed & Accelerated Accelerated Concentrated & Dispersed & Decelerated Decelerated Topographic Wetness Index Terrain Digital Infinity Relief Elevation Slope Model Contributing Topographic TWI and Area Wetness Hydrologic Index Capture Zone Combining HCZ & TWI Uncaptured Hydrology Captured Hydrology “This Law of Nature dictated by God himself is superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such as them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority mediately or immediately from this original. Upon these two foundations, the Law of Nature and the Law of Revelation, depend all Human Laws. Human laws are only declaratory of and act in Violet Oakley – Pennsylvania State subordination to, Divine Law.” Capitol Superior Court Penn State Center for Dirt & Gravel Road Studies is a Leader in ways to make Rural Roads more compatible with Water Resources “Rural Road Ecology” What I hope you Take from this Presentation: . Road are Forever (Permanent) parts of the landscape. Roads interfere with Natural Hydrology processes. Roads concentrate Energy & Matter. Roads catalyze watershed Change. Roads can be Designed, Built, Maintained, Restored, or Rehabilitated to be more Compatible with Aquatic Resources. Conceptual Framework & Reality of Alteration James Shallenberger [email protected] Conceptual Framework & Reality of Alteration James Shallenberger [email protected] .