Continuation of Setup 3 - GROUP 1

(pictures to come soon)

2/25 

Results: With our new sediment input we created splays formed and the channel as filled. We dredged the channel and fixed our sediment input so there would be less sediment feeding into the system. We really need to remove some of the large pebbles which on this scale act as large boulders. The small stream simply cant carry them and can not erode further where they are. We removed a few boulders very carefully as to not harm the system.

2/27

We have ran the system without any changes with our current set up and it seems to be doing very well. It is very very slowly meandering and the meander is even moving downstream! Real rivers take a long time to meander and change course and the same is try for out stream. This is where patience needs to come into our experiment. 

3/1

The nozzel of the sediment feed has fallen off sometime while no one was present which allowed all the sediment to dump into the sream at once. The channel is filled again with sediment. It seems like channel is trying to make a comeback so we will try to leave it run without any input of new sediment (this way the stream can erode and carry the excess sediment in the channels). 

3/2

The stream was not able to make as good of a comeback from our catastrophe the day before as we hoped. We are dredging it once again to get rid of the sand that filled the channel. We didn't change anything else and we began the water again. Right away the stream began to make sand bars and thalwags once again.

Overall the stream table is doing quite well.  It is slowly meandering down the stream toward the basin. There are steam like features forming as well, like the thalwags, sand bars, splays, etc.