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W81EWF-22-SOI-0035: Regional Geomorphic Parameters to Support Bank Stabilization

Closed Closed August 22, 2022 Opportunity W81EWF-22-SOI-0035 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: ERDC Broad Agency Announcement (W912HZ26S0001). Status: Closes January 1, 2027 (55 days left). It is in our archive of CEERD-CERL notices from 2022.

• Award ceiling$420,000
• Total funding$420,000
• Expected awards2
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This opportunity is restricted to non-federal partners of the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering awards averaged $1.1 million; this notice allows up to $420,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (69% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Section I: Funding Opportunity Description Background: Gravel bed rivers in the Missouri Ozarks are notoriously unstable. At many locations, the channels are depositing sediment in the middle of over-widened sections while eroding both banks. In previous years, landowners would manually remove the deposition by bull-dozing the gravel from the channel center to the eroding bank. However, these unpermitted actions perpetuated the channel instability, and after a local landowner was fined for not obtaining a permit, landowners have been reluctant to do anything. The Engineering with Nature program is developing simplified design methods and a streamlined permit process so landowners can apply successful bank stabilization that will also result in ecosystem lift. These methods will be based on parametric designs, i.e. sizing riprap and floodplain benches based on ranges of stream configurations that exist in the Ozarks, in order to develop a simplified, conservative procedure that landowners can follow. This CESU agreement is to derive and quantify the range of stream geomorphology existing in the Missouri Ozarks to inform the parametric design methodology. Major Tasks Are To: Derive hydrologic and geomorphic parameters from selected sub-watersheds in the Missouri Ozarks that are needed for design of a rock toe and a floodplain bench. These parameters include channel slope, bank height, wetted perimeter, bankfull area, and bankfull width. Describe the geomorphic change, including erosion rates, at sites where either bank stabilization or gravel manipulation was implemented. This may require field data collection utilizing drone-based LIDAR and/or Structure From Motion. (Option for future) Describe the geomorphic change over time of pilot bank stabilization projects on Crider Creek and the Maries River following implementation of pilot bank stabilization design. (Option for future) Quantify geomorphic change and bank instability in and near Pershing State Park, MO. Public Benefit: Streambank erosion, and difficulties that individual landowners have in dealing with it, are well known in the Missouri Ozarks. In the past, landowners have proposed largely ineffective methods such as bulldozing mid-channel gravel bars and placing the material on eroding banks. On the other hand, full slope rock revetments are effective but often too expensive for individual landowners to implement and have only limited ecological value.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

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