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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Project #30: Charles River Watertown Arsenal
verfasst von : Wendi Goldsmith, Donald Gray, John McCullah
Erschienen in: Bioengineering Case Studies
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
GEOMORPHIC SETTING: The Charles River is located in a watershed with a total area of 308 square miles. The watershed is urbanized, and the river has multiple dams. Beginning in Watertown the river corridor features nearly continuous public parks and greenways, most of which were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead over a century ago. The Charles River is fed by more than 80 streams and tributaries as well as multiple large aquifers. Its mouth at Boston Harbor is controlled by a dam which is used to manage water levels for recreation and periodic flood control, as well as preventing undesirable tidal influence. This slow-moving river exhibits few natural geomorphic processes; it remains nearly fixed in its plan form geometry as the river meanders 80 miles from Hopkington to Boston, connecting 23 communities and recharging many ponds and wetlands before finally discharging its tea colored waters into the sea (Fig. 1).