Environmental effects of storage preservation practices: Controlled flushing of fine sediment from a small hydropower reservoir

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 261-276

  Espa, Paolo ^a   Castelli, Elena ^b   Crosa, Giuseppe ^a   Gentili, Gaetano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b Regional Agency for Agricultural   (Italy)

^c Graia SrL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brown trout; Controlled sediment flushing; Macroinvertebrates; Reservoir siltation; Storage preservation; Suspended solid concentration

Indexed keywords

BROWN TROUTS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; RESERVOIR SILTATIONS; SEDIMENT FLUSHING; SUSPENDED SOLID CONCENTRATION;

DIGITAL STORAGE; EFFLUENTS; FISH; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

SEDIMENTS;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLUSHING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RESERVOIR; SALMONID; SILTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; BROWN TROUT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOW RATE; HYDROPOWER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; ITALY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER PLANTS; TROUT; WATER MOVEMENTS;

SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 84879842113     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0090-0     Document Type: Article

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