Fish Passage in Large Culverts with Low Flows

The objective of this project is to develop a report to document the study approach and the research results. The report will include a practical design method for estimating average and local velocities in culverts and will describe how the results can be used to develop improved methods for facilitating fish Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center's J. Sterling Jones Hydraulic Research Laboratory in McLean, Virginia. Hydraulic variables will include flow depth, flow condition (laminar, transition and turbulent), Froude number and the variation of flow velocities within the culvert cross-section. Culvert variables will include size and shape, slope, sediment deposits and culvert material. The experiments will be conducted in a new designed culvert test facility where a 15- to 20-foot length of specified culvert geometries will be installed between the headbox and tail box. Only the symmetrical half of the culverts will be modeled allowing larger scale models (1:5). Current FHWA laboratory instrumentation can now achieve much more precise measurements than was possible a few years ago to evaluate these hydraulic characteristics under low flow conditions. An advanced particle image velocimetry (PIV) technology will be used for measuring instantaneous flow fields in the culvert. The particle image velocimetry technique (PIV) is an optical flow diagnostic based on the interaction of light refraction and scattering with inhomogeneous media.

• Record URL:
  http://www.pooledfund.org/Details/Study/388

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $315000
• Contract Numbers:

  TPF-5(164)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities

  Research Development & Technology Transfer
  3132 Channel Dr
  Juneau, AK  United States 

  Georgia Department of Transportation

  600 West Peachtree Rd
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30308

  Michigan Department of Transportation

  Van Wagoner Building
  425 W. Ottawa Street
  Lansing, MI  United States  48909

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  Transportation Building
  395 John Ireland Boulevard
  St Paul, MN  United States  55155

  Vermont Agency of Transportation

  1 National Life Drive
  Drawer 33
  Montpelier, VT  United States  5633

  Wisconsin Department of Transportation

  PO Box 7910
  4802 Sheboygan Avenue, Room 104
  Madison, WI  United States  53707-7910

  Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration

  707 N. Calvert Street
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21202
• Project Managers:

  Kerenyi, Kornel

• Start Date: 20080213
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20130430
• Source Data: RiP Project 29740

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Culverts; Hydraulic properties; Hydraulic structures; Sediments
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fish passage; Flow conditions; Flow depth
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01563885
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: TPF-5(164)
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 23 2015 1:01AM