Gravel replenishment and active-channel widening for braided-river restoration: The case of the Upper Drac River (France).

Massive gravel replenishment combined with active-channel widening could theoretically improve the morphological recovery of altered braided rivers but this restoration strategy was not yet tested in the field. A recent braided restoration project based on this principle was set up to restore a 4.2 km long reach in the Upper Drac River (French Alps) using 355.

A field experiment to evaluate the cleaning performance of sewer flushing on non-uniform sediment deposits.

The results of a field experiment to evaluate the scouring effect of a single flush operation in a compound-section sewer channel in Paris, France, are presented in this paper. Full monitoring of the experiment allowed identifying flush-related transport/deposition key processes playing a role on the evolution of the deposited sediments. Overall, the flush was able to scour sediments accumulated over the channel invert up to a significant distance from the gate.