The more than 300,000 acres of public and private reservoirs and ponds constructed in
Kansas during the past century are steadily filling with silt. These water resources were …

Kansas faces the challenge of reduced surface water storage in eastern Kansas caused by
sedimentation of its reservoirs. The 24 federal reservoirs in Kansas have an average age of …

Sediment accumulation and other factors continue to create water quality problems that
affect the many uses of Kansas reservoirs. The most pressing issue is ensuring the quality of …

Reservoir sediment studies are important because of the effect that sediment accumulation
has on the quality of water and useful life of the reservoir. Sediment deposition can affect …

Suspended solids are the largest category of water pollutants in Kansas (Devlin and Powell,
1996). Almost all Kansas lakes and streams contain undesirable levels of suspended solids …

A combination of available bathymetric-survey information, bottom-sediment coring, and
historical streamgage information was used to investigate sedimentation, sediment quality …

Reservoirs are sustainable only as long as they offer sufficient water storage space to
achieve their design objectives. Life expectancy related to sedimentation is a measure of …

The reservoirs are grouped by drainage basins, the boundaries of which are shown on an
index map. Summary data include reservoir locations, survey dates, drainage areas …

The importance of dependable, long-term water supplies, coupled with the need to quantify
rates of capacity loss of the Nation's reservoirs due to sediment deposition, were the most …

Previous reservoir sedimentation models have ignored two key factors for large spatial and
temporal modeling of multiple reservoirs: trapping by upstream dams and decreasing …