Sediment characteristics and accumulation rates in constructed ponds

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 425-432

  Brainard, A S ^a,b   Fairchild, G W ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflow; Organic matter; Pond; Sediment; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BULK DENSITY; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ORGANIC MATTER; POND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866421330     PISSN: 00224561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2489/jswc.67.5.425     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Bert, W. , M. Messiaen, F. Hendrickx, J. Manhout, T. de Bie, and G. Borgonie. 2007. Nematode communities of small farmland ponds. Hydrobiologia 583:91-105. (Pubitemid 46525422)
2. Biggs, J. , P. Williams, P. N. Whitfield, and A. Weatherby. 2005. 15 years of pond assessment in Britain: Results and lessons learned from the work of Pond Conservation. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 15:693-714. (Pubitemid 41697121)
3. Boothby, J. , and A. P. Hull. 1997. A census of ponds in Cheshire, North West England. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 7:75-79. (Pubitemid 27222304)
4. Cole, J. J. , T. Prairie, N. F. Caraco, W. H. McDowell, L. J. Tranvik, R. G. Striegl, C. M. Duarte, P. Kortelainen, J. A. Downing, J. Middleburg, and J. Melack. 2007. Plumbing the global carbon cycle: Integrating inland waters into the terrestrial carbon budget. Ecosystems 10:171-184. (Pubitemid 46825795)
5. Dean, W. E. , and E. Gorham. 1998. Magnitude and significance of carbon burial in lakes, reservoirs, and peatlands. Geology 26:535-538. (Pubitemid 28531917)
6. DeClerck, S. , J. Vandekerkhove, L. Johansson, K. Muylaert, J. M. Conde-Porcuna, K. Van der Gucht, C. Perez-Martinez, T. Lauridsen, K. Schwenk, G. Zwart, W. Rommens, J. Lopez-Ramos, E. Jeppesen, W. Vyverman, L. Brendonck, and L. De Meester. 2005. Multi-group biodiversity in shallow lakes along gradients of phosphorus and water plant cover. Ecology 86:1905-1915. (Pubitemid 40938792)
7. de Vente, J. , J. Poesen, M. Arabkhedri, and G. Verstraeten. 2007. The sediment delivery problem revisited. Progress in Physical Geography 31:155-178. (Pubitemid 46831361)
8. Downing, J. A. 2010. Emerging global role of small lakes and ponds: Little things mean a lot. Limnetica 29(1):9-24.
9. Downing, J. A. , Y. T. Prairie, J. J. Cole, C. M. Duarte, L. J. Tranvik, R. G. Striegl, W. H. McDowell, P. Kortelainen, N. F. Caraco, J. M. Melack, and J. Middleburg. 2006. The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments. Limnology and Oceanography 51:2388-2397. (Pubitemid 44529542)
10. Downing, J. A. , Y. T. Prairie, J. J. Cole, C. M. Duarte, L. J. Tranvik, R. G. Striegl, and W. H. McDowell. 2008. Sediment organic carbon burial in agriculturally eutrophic impoundments over the last century. Global Biogeochemistry 22, GB1018, doi:1029/2006GB002854.
11. Fairchild, G. W. , and D. J. Velinsky. 2006. Effects of small ponds on stream water chemistry. Lake and Reservoir Management 22:321-330. (Pubitemid 46139712)
12. Fairchild, G. W. , J. N. Anderson, and D. J. Velinsky. 2005. The trophic state 'chain of relationships' in ponds: Does size matter? Hydrobiologia 539:35-46. (Pubitemid 40778248)
13. Hayes-Bohanan, J. K. 1989. Source-area erosion rates in areas tributary to Miami Whitewater Lake. Master's thesis, Miami University.
14. Heal, K. V. , D. A. Hepburn, and R. J. Lunn. 2006. Sediment management in sustainable urban drainage system ponds. Water Science and Technology 53:219-227. (Pubitemid 43970875)
15. Heinemann, H. G. 1981. A new sediment trap efficiency curve for small reservoirs. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 17:825-830. (Pubitemid 12446050)
16. Horppila, J. , and J. Niemisto. 2008. Horizontal and vertical variations in sedimentation and resuspension rates in a stratifying lake -Effects of internal seiches. Sedimentology 55:1135-1144.
17. Hull, A. 1997. The Pond Life Project: A model for conservation and sustainability. In British Pond Landscapes, ed. J. Boothby, 101-109. Proceedings of the UK Conference of the Pond Life Project held at University College, Chester September 7-9, 1997.
18. Jackson, C. R. , and C. M. Pringle. 2010. Ecological benefits of reduced hydrologic connectivity in intensively developed landscapes. Bioscience 60:37-46.
19. Madsen, J. D. , P. A. Chambers, W. F. James, E. W. Koch, and D. F. Westlake. 2001. The interaction between water movement, sediment dynamics, and submersed macrophytes. Hydrobiologia 444:71-84. (Pubitemid 32501065)
20. Maxted, J. R. , C. H. McCready, and M. R. Scarsbrook. 2005. Effects of small ponds on stream water quality and macroinvertebrate communities. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39:1069-1084. (Pubitemid 41503816)
21. Menounos, B. 1997. The water content of lake sediments and its relationship to other physical parameters: An alpine case study. The Holocene 7:207-212.
22. Mielke, L. N. 1985. Performance of water and sedimentcontrol basins in northeastern Nebraska. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 40:524-528.
23. Munsiri, P. , C. E. Boyd, and B. F. Hajek. 1995. Physical and chemical characteristics of bottom soil profiles in ponds at Auburn, Alabama, USA, and a proposed system for describing pond soil horizons. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 26:346-376.
24. Newman, D. J. , D. R. Perault, and T. D. Shahady. 2006. Watershed development and sediment accumulation in a small urban lake. Lake and Reservoir Management 22:303-307. (Pubitemid 46139710)
25. Oertli, B. , J. Biggs, R. Cereghino, P. Grillas, P. Joly, and J. B. Lachavanne. 2005. Conservation and monitoring of pond biodiversity: Introduction. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 15:535-540. (Pubitemid 41697110)
26. Rausch, D. L. , and H. G. Heinemann. 1975. Controlling reservoir trap efficiency. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers 18:1105-1108.
27. Rausch, D. L. , and J. D. Schreiber. 1981. Sediment and nutrient trap efficiency of a small flood-detention reservoir. Journal of Environmental Quality 10(3):288-293.
28. Renwick, W. H. , K. J. Carlson, and J. K. Hayes-Bohanan. 2005. Trends in recent reservoir sedimentation rates in Southwestern Ohio. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 60:72-79. (Pubitemid 40466453)
29. Santucci, V. J. , S. R. Gephard, and S. M. Pescitelli. 2005. Effects of multiple low-head dams on fish, macroinvertebrates, habitat, and water quality in the Fox River, Illinois. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:975-992. (Pubitemid 41179003)
30. Shuman, B. 2003. Controls on loss-on-ignition variation in cores from two shallow lakes in the northeastern United States. Journal of Paleolimnology 30:371-385. (Pubitemid 38097999)
31. Smith, S. V. , W. H. Renwick, J. D. Bartley, and R. W. Buddemeier. 2002. Distribution and significance of small, artificial water bodies across the United States landscape. The Science of the Total Environment 299:21-36. (Pubitemid 35287486)
32. Sondergaard, M. , E. Jeppesen, and J. P. Jensen. 2005. Pond or lake: Does it make any difference? Archiv für Hydrobiologie 162:143-165. (Pubitemid 40398660)
33. Tiner, R. 1989. Current status and recent trends in Pennsylvania's wetlands. In Wetlands Ecology and Conservation: Emphasis in Pennsylvania, ed. S. K. Majumdar, 368-378. Easton, PA: The Pennsylvania Academy of Science Publications.
34. Tranvik, L. J. , J. A. Downing, J. B. Cotner, S. A. Loiselle, G. Striegl, T. J. Ballatore, and G. A. Weyhenmeyer. 2009. Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate. Limnology and Oceanography 54:2298-2314.
35. Verstraeten, G. , and J. Poesen. 2001. The importance of sediment characteristics and trap efficiency in assessing sediment yield using retention ponds. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (B) 26:83-87. (Pubitemid 32166113)
36. Verstraeten, G. , and J. Poesen. 2002a. Using sediment deposits in small ponds to quantify sediment yield from small catchments: Possibilities and limitations. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 27:1425-1439. (Pubitemid 36101378)
37. Verstraeten, G. , and J. Poesen. 2002b. Regional scale variability in sediment and nutrient delivery from small agricultural watersheds. Journal of Environmental Quality 31:870-879.
38. Xie, Y. , S. An, and B. Wu. 2005. Resource allocation in the submerged plant Vallisneria natans related to sediment type, rather than water-column nutrients. Freshwater Biology 50:391-402. (Pubitemid 40346354)
39. Walter, R. C. , and D. J. Merritts. 2008. Natural streams and the legacy of water-powered mills. Science 319:299-304.