Engineering
Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings
Alan Yamada, Program Leader
Kim Clarkin , Project Leader
Forest Service Sites
- FishXing -Beta version of FishXing 3.0; FX3 tutorial; case studies of aquatic passage projects at road-stream crossings; fish passage annotated bibliography (1999); a great list of current links and fish passage resources; AND the definitive rendition of the bluegrass classic “Y’all jump!”.
- http://csmres.jmu.edu/forestservice/Culvert/ Inventory data and photos of crossings on the Monongahela NF. They were inventoried summer 2002 under the supervision of Mark Hudy, eastern regions aquatic ecologist. See index.html for a map of the inventoried culverts. Contact Mark for more information.
- Northern Region (R1) Aquatic Organism Passage. This Web site includes regional criteria for culvert barrier assessment guidance.
Other Links
- Fish Detection Device. FS T&D and Sensatech Research Ltd are developing a Fish Detection Device that detects movement of organisms across electrical sensors on pads laid across the stream. Prototypes are in field testing in Arkansas and California.
- Center for Transportation & the Environment is a university transportation center funded by FHWA and North Carolina DOT. It focuses on understanding and mitigating the impacts of surface transportation on the environment. Includes searchable databases on wildlife, transportation, and transportation-related environmental research in progress. Several research projects related to aquatic organism passage are described under “Wildlife/Terrestrial Ecosystems”.
- British Columbia's Fish-stream Crossing Guide. March 2002.
- Geomorphologic Impacts of Culvert Replacement and Removal: Avoiding Channel Incision by Janine Castro, USFWS Portland offers an excellent description of how to assess channel incision potential at existing culverts, and how to handle culvert design in incised channels.
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Fish Passage Program Webpage.
- Washington Dept of Fish & Wildlife Fish Passage Technical Assistance
This site includes State of Washington assessment procedures for determining fish passage through culverts and design guidance for fish passable culverts.
- The Alaska Department of Natural Resources/Office of Habitat Management and Permitting, Bridge and Culvert Construction and Maintenance webpage has a wide variety of links to design and planning guides, fish passage research, and private companies and non-profits who do work related to fish passage.
- Oregon Road/Stream Crossing Restoration Guide: Spring 1999 by Robison, Mirati and Allen (App A has the ODFW fish passage guidelines)
- Pacific Southwest Region National Marine Fisheries Service Guidelines for Salmonid Passage at Stream Crossings
- Washington State Local Technical Assistance Program. Article: Small Highway Project Yields Big Results—For Fish and Drivers. Crews replace culvert and improve road on State Route 548, near Birch Bay.
- NOAA Fisheries Southwest Region (California) Guidelines for Salmonid Passage at Stream Crossings
- Studies of fish passage through culverts in Montana (Blank et al 2005) —one of the few studies of direct passage through culverts. This one is low flow only, but an appendix describes on-going high flow studies.
- Improving Stream Crossings for Fish Passage: Final Report
Another direct fish passage study on migrating salmonids in NW California (Lang, Trush, and Love 2004)
- Rollin Hotchkiss (Hydraulics Professor at Brigham Young University) and Chris Frei (graduate student, Washington State University) produced a report for the Federal Highway Administration: Design for Fish Passage at Roadway-Stream Crossings: Synthesis Report. The report collected information about methods of barrier assessment; methods of prioritizing replacements; and fish passage design considerations and methods. The USFS stream simulation techniques are described in the document (incompletely and with some inaccuracies) under the category "Geomorphic Simulation".
