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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 68
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Culverts have been shown to disrupt fish mobility in high gradient mountain streams, and are of concern to transportation system planners, designers, and managers. However, there is still some uncertainty concerning the cumulative impact that culverts can have on a fishery. In this project, passive integrated transponders (PIT tags) were used, primarily on Yellowstone cutthroat trout, to examine fish passage in the roaded drainage of a high gradient stream system. This project focuses on fish passage in the upstream direction through successive culverts over all portions of the hydrograph, including the high flows that Yellowstone cutthroat encounter during spawning runs. Results are presented in probabilistic terms in addition to the traditional passage/no passage format. The results show that water velocity is a good indicator of the probability of fish passing a culvert. The probability of a fish passing a series of culverts is best predicted by combining the probability that fish will, in general, pass individual culverts.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 68
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Culverts have been shown to disrupt fish mobility in high gradient mountain streams, and are of concern to transportation system planners, designers, and managers. However, there is still some uncertainty concerning the cumulative impact that culverts can have on a fishery. In this project, passive integrated transponders (PIT tags) were used, primarily on Yellowstone cutthroat trout, to examine fish passage in the roaded drainage of a high gradient stream system. This project focuses on fish passage in the upstream direction through successive culverts over all portions of the hydrograph, including the high flows that Yellowstone cutthroat encounter during spawning runs. Results are presented in probabilistic terms in addition to the traditional passage/no passage format. The results show that water velocity is a good indicator of the probability of fish passing a culvert. The probability of a fish passing a series of culverts is best predicted by combining the probability that fish will, in general, pass individual culverts.
Author: Todd N. Tillinger Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 42
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The objective of this report is to combine, in one document, previously reported information on factors influencing fish passage through culverts, especially as it pertains to conditions indicative of Montana. First, the need for considering fish passage is discussed, followed by an investigation of biological, hydrologic and hydraulic criteria influencing fish passage. An integration of biological and hydraulic criteria is presented, as is a review of previous studies conducted in Montana. Recommendations for future research are also presented. The major biological criteria influencing fish passage are species and size of fish, jumping ability, and seasonal feeding and spawning migrations as related to the hydrologic regime of the stream requiring a culvert crossing. In general, salmonid species and healthy adult fish are the strongest swimmers and spawning is the major reason fish migrate. The main culvert features preventing fish passage include: a perched outlet, too great a velocity, too shallow a depth, or too long a distance between resting pools. The major hydraulic criteria influencing fish passage are: flow rates during fish migration periods; and type, roughness, length and slope of the culvert. In general, the optimum design for peak flow conveyance, a smooth pipe flowing full, will not meet fish passage criteria at any discharge. Fish size appears to have little influence on ability to negotiate a culvert despite its effect on swimming performance. One theory is that smaller fish utilize regions of low velocity near the culvert wall. Multiple possibilities for future research to better characterize fish passage are listed. Examples include better characterization of velocity gradients within culverts and evaluation of fish swimming performance for poorly characterized Montana species.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 74
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Transportation system planners, designers and managers recognize that fish passage through culverts is a concern. However, there is much contention concerning the impact that a given culvert can have on a fishery. This is particularly true for warm water prairie fisheries. In this project, a combination of three assessment techniques were used to examine fish passage at five culvert crossings in eastern Montana. The techniques used were longitudinal distribution surveys, direct observation of fish passage in field experiments, and modeling using the FishXing program. Results show a diverse fishery with as many as 21 species in a given reach. Distributional surveys showed no difference in fish species richness and almost no difference in fish abundance between the upstream and downstream sides of culverts. Direct observation of the four most abundant species found that when all species were combined, fish passed through culverts at an equal or greater rate than through reference reaches and only one individual species, longnose dace, did not. The FishXing model tended to be conservative, even when calibrated to local hydraulics at each culvert. The strongest estimator of fish passage was to overlay the FishXing results and the field observations onto a hydrograph of the stream system to predict passage windows, or time periods where passage is predicted to not be restricted.
Author: Duncan Drake Burford Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 100
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Restriction or blockage of fish movement due to culverts may have important consequences to fish populations. Problems include the direct loss of critical upstream habitats, and the loss of connectivity with neighboring populations; however, culvert barriers may also serve to protect native species from nonnative species encroachment. Culverts can impede fish movement due to high water velocities, inadequate water depths, and excessive outfall heights among other factors. Most previous studies have focused on fish passage at only a few culverts and thus the extent to which culverts impede fish passage across large drainage basins is largely unknown. In this study, a multi-tiered approach was used to assess fish passage through culverts throughout the upper Clearwater River drainage, Montana. The FishXing software program was used to assess juvenile and adult fish passage at 46 culverts across a wide range of stream discharge. At a subset of 20 culverts, population sampling upstream and downstream of each culvert at low flow was used to determine the degree to which culverts are influencing relative abundance, size structure, and species presence. At a further subset of 10 sites, passage was measured directly at low flow by monitoring the movement of marked fish through culverts with differing physical characteristics. FishXing results indicated that 76-85% of the culverts were barriers, depending on the streamflow and lifestage assessed. The population sampling results indicated that there were a only few differences in relative abundance or size structure at the culverts sampled at low flow, and there was little evidence to suggest that species presence was different below versus above the culverts. The direct passage study results showed that some passage occurred at 90% of the culverts studied at low flow. However, 7 of the 10 culverts showed some degree of passage impedance. There was a moderately significant positive relationship between passage impedance and outlet height (r2 = 0.41, P = 0.047). In summary, the culverts were restricting passage to upstream habitats that may be important for spawning, growth, and survival, but they were generally not isolating populations nor serving as barriers to protect native species from non-native species encroachment.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 44
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A basin wide assessment of fish passage through culverts was performed in the upper Seeley Lake watershed in western Montana. The watershed has many small streams that support a variety of trout species, predominately cutthroat trout and brook trout, but with some bull trout and brown trout too. A total of 47 culverts were studied, and at these culverts the FishXing model and a screening tool that is a composite of several flowchart based models were used to predict fish passage success. At a subset of 21 culverts, fish were collected above and below the culvert to check for population differences with respect to species, size, and abundance. At another subset of 10 culverts, fish passage was directly assessed using fish traps. Results indicate that the FishXing model and the composite screen are conservative estimators of fish passage in culverts. The direct passage assessment indicated that more fish passage occurred during low flow than was expected, and the population (above/below) sampling results gave little evidence to indicate that many of the culverts were functioning as barriers to fish passage. However, there was evidence that fish passage was restricted at many of the culverts at low flow. High flow was not examined in detail at the field sites in this study.
Author: Leo Richard Rosenthal Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 156
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Additionally, few differences were observed in relative abundance and species richness above and below culvert crossings. FishXing modeling also revealed that study culverts were capable of passing some species for a portion of the study period. A survey of culverts throughout much of eastern Montana showed that the conditions observed in study culverts were typical of many low gradient, prairie streams. Most culverts in the survey had small outlet drops, low gradients, contained natural substrate, and low water velocities similar to those of natural reaches. Our results suggest that in these conditions, culverts may allow for adequate passage of most prairie species. However, more research is needed to determine what thresholds in these variables negatively influence passage of prairie fishes.
Author: Duncan Drake Burford Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 100
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The FishXing software program was used to assess juvenile and adult fish passage through 46 culverts throughout the upper Clearwater River watershed in northwestern Montana. A wide range of water discharge was represented. Results indicated even at low flow culverts restricted passage to upstream habitats, but they were generally not isolating populations and not serving as barriers to protect native species from non-native species encroachment.
Author: Calvin O. Baker Publisher: ISBN: Category : Culverts Languages : en Pages : 84
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The success of fish migration through culverts is dependent on the swimming ability of the fish and the hydraulic conditions of the culvert. Properly designed and constructed culverts can minimize the impact on fish passage. Because culverts are typically more economical than bridges, it is appropriate to evaluate when to use culverts and to predict the effects of such culvert installations. During the consideration of alternatives for structures for fish passage, culverts should not be automatically eliminated. This publication has tried to examine the aspects of culvert design and operation relative to the existing information that has been published in previous studies. Ideally, a culvert installation should not change the conditions that existed prior to that installation. This means that the cross-sectional area should not be restricted by the culvert, the slope should not change, and the roughness coefficients should remain the same. Any change in these conditions will result in a velocity change which could alter the sediment transportation capacity of the stream. A truly successful culvert design would include matching the velocities of the fish's swimming zone in the culvert to the swimming capacity of the design fish. Unfortunately, not enough research has been completed to make this an acceptable criterion of culvert design. This approach is preferred because it is easier to reduce the velocities in the swimming zone by increasing the boundary roughness than it is to reduce the mean velocity of the entire culvert. This publication contains some relatively simple guidelines which can reduce the installation problems of culverts in streams containing migrating fish when combined with the expertise of an experience fish biologist, engineer, and hydrologist.
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Advanced studies of fish passage through culverts: One-dimensional and three-dimensional hydraulic modeling of velocity, fish energy expenditure, and a new barrier assessment method.
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