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Enhanced Ditch Design Spreadsheet Tool
https://agditches.osu.edu/tools-and-models/channel-assessment-design/enhanced-ditch-design-tool
Enhanced Channel Design Version 1.0 The Enhanced Channel Design spreadsheet tool and User Guidance ... Manual is provided as an aid to conservationists working on the design of open channels. The tool allows ... alternatives to the traditional open channel design approach, which results in an incised trapezoidal ...
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Tools and Models
https://agditches.osu.edu/tools-and-models
Stream and ditch physical condition is increasingly a priority for resource managers. Assessment ... channels of different user-defined forms. Performing preliminary alternative channel design and design ... ends a suite of spreadsheet tools, the STREAM Modules, has been developed by the Ohio Department of ...
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Resources & Publications
https://agditches.osu.edu/Publications
USA. Ecological Engineering. Spreadsheet Tools Enhanced Channel Design Tool Instream Nitrogen ... 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. ...
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Water Quality
https://agditches.osu.edu/tools-and-models/water-quality
conventional trapezoidal drainage ditch design to an alternative design such as the two-stage ditch or ... The benefits of ditches extend way beyond drainage and production. Well-functioning drainage ... ditches also can provide many services to the watershed including protecting valuable downstream resources ...
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Instream Nitrogen Assimilation Tool
https://agditches.osu.edu/tools-and-models/water-quality/instream-nitrogen-assimilation-tool
geometry. The tool is designed for initial site assessment, planning and education purposes. Instream ... Instream Nitrogen Assimilation Tool Version 1.0 The Instream Nitrogen Assimilation Tool – Version ... potential. Version 1.0 is set up to compare an incised trapezoidal ditch system to a ditch with two-stage ...
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Scientific Information: References
https://agditches.osu.edu/management-options/scientific-information-references
Design Options for Open Channels: Two-Stage Ditches and Self-Forming Channels ... Wilson, and J. Nieber. 2012. Channel evolution of Des Moines Lobe till drainage ditches in southern ... L. Tank, Sarah S. Roley, Robert T. Davis. 2015. Two-stage ditch floodplains enhance N-removal ...
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Self-Forming Channels
https://agditches.osu.edu/case-studies/self-forming
the range of applications of the self-forming channel design in Ohio: bagley_ditch.pdf beem_ditch ... The self-forming channel design seeks to construct a state from which a stream suited to the ... projects are following a trajectory consistent with channel evolution models, which describe channel ...
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AgBufferBuilder Webinar
https://senr.osu.edu/about-us/events/agbufferbuilder-webinar
Webinar: AgBufferBuilder: A GIS tool for Precision Design and Assessment of Filter Strips ... streams and ditches. Filter strips are often designed to have the same width all along the edge of the ... AgBufferBuilder uses digital elevation models to identify areas where runoff is likely to concentrate so that the ...
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Program Areas
https://streams.osu.edu/program-areas
Workshop on the ODNR Natural Channel Design Tools. The STREAMS Channel Protection and Restoration ... Overwide Ditch Design and Implementation (Dan Mecklenburg, Ohio Department of Natural Resources) ... 2005. Design Discharge Procedures in the STREAM Spreadsheet Tools. Electronic Proceedings, ASCE and EWRI ...
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Natural Channel Designs for Drainage Ditches
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/human-dimensions/mental-models/natural-drainage-management
channel? designs incorporate floodplain zones that increase the volume of water the ditch can hold and ... http://geography.blog.gustavus.edu/2010/05/19/660/ Advantages Alternative designs for drainage ditches, such as those that restore or maintain ... and around the ditch (e.g., reducing mowing and weed removal) and enhance the overall health of the ...