Impact of Floods on Sediment Trap Efficiency of a Small Shallow Reservoir—A Case Study

Bogusław Michalec and Karol Plesiński ()
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Bogusław Michalec: Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Kraków, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Karol Plesiński: Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Kraków, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-20

Abstract: Silting is the main factor limiting the ability to perform the tasks that small reservoirs are intended for. Therefore, the change in sediment trap efficiency was studied for a small shallow reservoir, Krempna, which, due to high silting intensity, was desilted twice (2005, 2018). Siltation measurements were performed in two periods (1987–2005, 2006–2018) after the reservoir was desludged. It was found that the sediments were composed of fine-fraction sediment; therefore, a series of measurements of suspended sediment transport were performed. These data allowed us to calculate the daily sediment transport flowing into and out of the reservoir and water-level measurements. Then, the sediment trap efficiency was calculated. The aim of this study was: (1) to determine the impact of flood flows on the sediment trap efficiency (STE) of a small shallow reservoir, (2) to determine changes in the value of the sediment trap efficiency of a small shallow reservoir in two different periods of its operation, and (3) to demonstrate whether it is possible to determine the value of the initial sediment trap efficiency and changes in the STE values during operation using empirical formulas. Finally, during flood flows, the amount of sediment retained in the studied reservoir was several times lower than during freshets with a much smaller flow. It is these small freshets that reduce the capacity of the reservoir. A correlation relationship was developed for 18 data—flood flows (Q) and sediment trap efficiency (STE).

Keywords: flood; suspended-load sediment; physical modeling; field studies; reservoir (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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