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  1. Self-Forming Channels

    https://agditches.osu.edu/case-studies/self-forming

    The self-forming channel design seeks to construct a state from which a stream suited to the ... the range of applications of the self-forming channel design in Ohio: bagley_ditch.pdf beem_ditch.pdf ... hydrogeomorphic setting develops through succession. Since 2005, twenty-six self-forming stream designs have been ...

  2. Enhanced Ditch Design Spreadsheet Tool

    https://agditches.osu.edu/tools-and-models/channel-assessment-design/enhanced-ditch-design-tool

    geometry.  These alternatives include the two-stage and self-forming channel design approaches, which attempt ... methods that have been used to design two-stage and self-forming channels in low-gradient, low-energy ... Enhanced Channel Design Version 1.0 The Enhanced Channel Design spreadsheet tool and User Guidance ...

  3. Self-Forming Channels

    https://agditches.osu.edu/channel-designs/self-forming

    Self-Forming Channels       The self-forming approach is an ecological engineering design that ... The self-forming approach typically involves excavating the bed of a channel to an over-wide width and ... content than might be found in constructed benches in two-stage approach. A self-forming channel just ...

  4. Resources & Publications

    https://agditches.osu.edu/Publications

    and multi-media materials about two-stage ditches and self-forming channels.   Fact Sheets Ditch ... in press. Building Better Ditches: The Self-Forming Channel. Great Lake Regional Water Program. ... Madison, WI, USA. Witter et al., 2013. Planning and Design Guidance for Two-Stage and Self-Forming ...

  5. Two-Stage Ditch Symposium

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/stream-systems/two-stage-ditch-symposium

    drainage ditches, including two-stage and self-forming channels. Presentations: Alternative Best Management ... Practices for Agricultural Drainage Channels- presented by Jon Witter, OSU Extension Self-forming Streams- ... alternatives to traditional agricultural drainage channels. Below are links to recordings of the symposium ...

  6. Water Quality

    https://agditches.osu.edu/tools-and-models/water-quality

    self-forming channel.   ... conventional trapezoidal drainage ditch design to an alternative design such as the two-stage ditch or ...

  7. New Self-Forming Channel Debuts at Farm Science Review

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/node/1576

    LONDON, Ohio – A new, innovative drainage ditch design that includes self-forming channels that ... Review assistant manager. The self-forming channel demonstration area – a new feature of the Review this ... Contractors Association installs during the Review each year, the self-forming channel is a great asset to the ...

  8. International EcoSummit Features Waterman Farm Two-Stage Ditch

    https://waterman.osu.edu/international-ecosummit-features-waterman-farm-two-stage-ditch

    two-stage ditches. Dr. Jonathan Witter presented the benefits of a self-forming channel design. Dr. Jessica ... two-stage ditch design. The tour was attended by 21 participants from 5 different countries. Dr. Jessica ...

  9. Tools and Models

    https://agditches.osu.edu/tools-and-models

    channels of different user-defined forms. Performing preliminary alternative channel design and design ... form and channel function as well as to aid in decision-making and project prioritization. Features of ... characteristics. Determining the dimensions of typical channel form and the equilibrium state of channel systems ...

  10. Management Options

    https://agditches.osu.edu/management-options

    and habitats. Common approaches for channel projects include Do Nothing, a Self-Forming Channel ... Summary The goal for any channel project should be to leave, enhance, or establish a channel that ... is connected to an active floodplain. In a ditch system, the channel is called the inset channel. In ...

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