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An Assessment of the Lafever Dam Pool, Middle Cuyahoga River, Summit County, Ohio

Kasper, Nicholas Raymond
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1279299769

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2010, Master of Science, University of Akron, Geology.
The trend of dam removal in the United States to improve water quality has caught the interest of the City of Cuyahoga Falls in removing the 4.1-m tall LaFever Dam from the Cuyahoga River. Upstream of the LaFever Dam, the neighboring city of Munroe Falls, successfully removed the Munroe Falls Dam in 2005 which improved water quality and drew more people to the water-front. Before a dam is removed various studies must be conducted on the river environment, both upstream and downstream of the dam. This two-year study documented continued lateral erosion and coarsening of channel-floor sediment upstream of the former Munroe Falls Dam. Cross-sectional profiles downstream of the former Munroe Falls Dam have recorded both aggradation and degradation, as the sediment released from the former Munroe Falls dam pool is transported downstream towards the LaFever dam pool. Currently sand is deposited downstream of Water Works Park as a deltaic feature. The LaFever Dam has decreased river slope, flow velocity and boundary shear stress, thus favoring fine-grained sediment deposition within the dam pool. Within the LaFever dam pool, approximately 52,000 m3 or 35,000,000 kg of sediment has accumulated. The amount of trace-metal contaminants in the sediment was measured to assess potential impacts the possible removal of the LaFever Dam will have on the down-stream environment. LaFever dam pool sediment has concentrations of Pb, Cr and Zn above the ERM values (218, 370 and 410 ppm) which may cause adverse biologic effects. Therefore, additional studies including those of organic pollutants are needed before the LaFever Dam is removed.
John Peck, Dr. (Advisor)
419 p.
Environmental Science; Geochemistry; Geology
Dam removal; Sediment transport; River geomorphology; Sediment metal concentrations

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  • Kasper, N. R. (2010). An Assessment of the Lafever Dam Pool, Middle Cuyahoga River, Summit County, Ohio [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1279299769

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kasper, Nicholas. An Assessment of the Lafever Dam Pool, Middle Cuyahoga River, Summit County, Ohio. 2010. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1279299769.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kasper, Nicholas. "An Assessment of the Lafever Dam Pool, Middle Cuyahoga River, Summit County, Ohio." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1279299769

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