River Deltas
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Deltas form where large rivers meet marine waters. These deltas, built of fluvial sediment deposited at the coastline, are often broad and low-lying, and represent the marine extension of alluvial floodplains. Many have been heavily modified for agricultural and urban uses. Deltas can be distinguished based on the relative influence of waves, tides and river processes in their formation. (from Shipman 2008).
Simenstad et al 2011 identifies 16 river deltas. Large coastal inlets wetlands associated with large watersheds (see Cereghino et al 2012) like Union, Tahuya or the Snow-Salmon, could be considered part of this population. PSNERP identifies recovery of lost delta tidal marsh and a primary target for restoration of Puget Sound nearshore ecosystems. A separate page describing Restoration of Puget Sound River Deltas provides an overview of goals, resources and efforts.
Other River Delta Topic Pages
- Beneficial use of dredge materials
- Fish sampling design in river deltas
- Nearshore Monitoring Strategy
- River Delta Reference List
- River Delta Restoration
- Snohomish Agricultural Resilience
- Snohomish Agriculture Resilience Plan
- Tide gate effects on salmonid passage and utilization
- Whidbey Basin Estuary Restoration Monitoring
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Restoration Efforts
- Automating Landscape Connectivity for Puget Sound River Deltas and Pocket Estuaries
- Blue Heron Mitigation Bank
- Deepwater Slough Restoration
- Designing large wood placement in tidal marshes
- Estuary Restoration for Northern Puget Sound Birds
- Evaluating Salmon Rearing Limitations in River Deltas
- Everett Marshlands Restoration
- Everett Riverfront Wetlands
- Fir Island Farm Restoration
- Fisher Slough Restoration
- Island Unit Estuary Restoration
- Leque Island Restoration
- Marysville Mitigation Site
- Maulsby Mudflat Reconnection and Restoration
- Mid-spencer Island Restoration
- Milltown Island Restoration
- Nisqually Refuge Restoration
- North Ebey Island Restoration
- Port Susan Restoration
- Qwuloolt Restoration
- Red Salmon Slough Restoration
- Skokomish Delta Restoration
- Smith Island Restoration
- Snohomish Estuary Restoration Effects on Temperature, Salinity, and Tides
- Spencer Island Restoration
- Steamboat Slough Mitigation Site
- Swinomish Slough Restoration
- Three Crabs Restoration
- Tulalip Landfill Cleanup
- Union Slough Mitigation
- Union Slough Restoration
- Wiley Slough Restoration
- Zis a Ba Restoration
Other Efforts
- Chinook response to estuary restoration
- Coastal Blue Carbon Project
- Coastal Resilience to Climate Change
- Delta Metrics Project
- Estuary science to support adaptive management (Salish Sea 2011)
- File:Grossman ExecutiveSummary RecoveringSedimentToSustainDeltaMarsh.pdf
- Juvenile salmon response to landscape connectivity change within two Puget Sound river estuaries
- File:Landscape Connectivity Figure1.docx
- Nearshore Strategies Analysis
- Predicting Rates of Channel Development
- Puget Sound Large River Delta Tidal Restriction and Wetland Mapping
- Puget Sound Marine Riparian Mapping
- Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project
- Puget Sound Tidal Restriction and Wetland Mapping
- River Delta Consortium
- Skagit Delta Tidegates and Fish Initiative
- Skagit Farm, Fish and Flood Initiative
- Snohomish Delta Ecosystem Monitoring and Evaluation
- Stillaguamish Delta Dredged Sediment Re-use
- File:Stilly Sediment Reuse Agenda Draft 2014 Jan29.pdf
- Tidal Channel Reference Model
- Tide gate effects analysis
River Delta Documents
Documents Cited (Off-Wiki)
- File:Hughes et al 2014 nursery functions of estuaries.pdf
- File:Brophy & van de Wetering 2012 ni-les'ton tidal wetland restoration monitoring.pdf
- File:Beamer et al 2013 fisher slough fish monitoring 2012.pdf
- Williams et al 2002 hydraulic geometry
- Hood 2006 tidal channel formation as depositional
- Hood 2002 channel allometry
- File:Snohomish County 2015 diking district 6 maintenance.pdf
- Hood 2015 factors affecting tidal channel geometry
- Syvitski et al 2005 distributary channels and sediment dispersal
- File:TNC 2014 fir island farms construction strategy recommendations.pdf
- File:Lyons & Ramsey 2013 tide gate synthesis.pdf
- Gelfenbaum et al 2006 nearshore research strategy
- File:Fuller et al 2011 using sea level rise model results.pdf
- French & Stoddart 1992 marsh hydraulics
- Simenstad et al 1982 role of estuaries in salmon life history
- File:Boyd 2016 hat slough & fisher slough lessons learned.pdf
- Mudd et al 2009 tidal marsh, sea level, productivty and carbon
- File:Fuller & McArdle 2014 marsh erosion at stillaguamish delta.pdf
- File:Stilly Sediment Reuse Agenda Draft 2014 Jan29.pdf
- Hood 2012 beaver in tidal marsh
- File:Beamer et al 2007 fish assemblage greater skagit delta.pdf
- File:Hinton & Hood 2007.pdf
- File:Lipsky 2010 whidbey stakeholder preferences.pdf
- File:MacDonald et al 2013 elwha nearshore workshop proceedings.pdf
- File:Parametrix 2010 fisher slough monitoring plan.pdf
- File:Beamer et al 2006 deepwater slough effectiveness.pdf
- File:Breslow 2001 farmer perception of salmon recovery.pdf
- File:PGG 2012 leque island restoration camano island groundwater.pdf
- File:Ellings 2011 Nisqually Monitoring Framework.pdf
- File:Habitat Strategic Initiative 2021 estuary and floodplain implementation strategy.pdf
- File:City of Everett 2001 snohomish estuary wetland salmon overlay.pdf
- Crain et al 2004 mechanisms driving salt marsh composition
- Dalrymple & Choi 2007 tidal delta framework
- File:Snohomish County 2020 smith and mid-spencer monitoring year 0-1.pdf
- File:TNC 2011.pdf
- File:Greene & Beamer 2005 skagit delta recovery plan analysis.pdf
- File:Rossenkotter et al 2007 nearshore salmon recovery gap analysis.pdf
- Hayes et al. 2019 non-natal marine basin use
- Athearn et al 2010 mapping elevation lidar vs sonar
- File:Cereghino 2015 coordinated investment snohomish framework.pdf
- File:TNC 2017 fisher slough restoration summary.pdf
- David et al 2014
- File:TNC 2012 port susan restoration as-built plans.pdf
- File:SDHP 2014 skagit hydrodynamic model report.pdf
- File:Beamer et al 2018 fir island farms fish monitoring 2015-18.pdf
- File:Roegner et al 2008 columbia river estuary restoration monitoring protocols.pdf
- File:TNC 2014 port susan monitoring progress.pdf
- File:Woo et al 2011 port susan monitoring plan.pdf
- File:Greene et al 2012 effects of tidegates on fish.pdf
- Ewing 1986 skagit tidal marsh productivity
- File:Baek et al 2015 mid-spencer 60% design.pdf
- File:Fuller 2015 stillaguamish pore water salinity memo.pdf
- Kirwan & Murray 2007 tidal marsh evolution model
- File:WDFW 2015 delta restoration replacement lands.pdf
- File:PWA et al 2004 fir island connector assessment.pdf
- File:Takekawa & Woo 2013 niqually delta monitoring proposal.pdf
- File:Zu Ermgassen et al 2016 oyster restoration objectives for ecosystem services.pdf
- File:Porrini 2018 fir island farms invertebrate monitoring.pdf
- File:Weinerman et al 2012 fisher slough economic benefits.pdf
- File:Fuller 2014 stillaguamish dredged sediment reuse.pdf
- Hood 2010
- File:ESRP 2012 red salmon slough revegetation deliverables.pdf
- File:Baker et al 2016 estuary restoration lessons learned.pdf
- File:Arcos 2012 skokomish channel stability.pdf
- File:Friebel 2016 fir island farms lessons learned.pdf
- File:Goetz et al 2004 PSNERP restoration principles.pdf
- File:Grossman et al 2011 skagit shallow stratigraphy.pdf
- Kirwan et al 2008 goose impacts on delta wetlands
- File:Schlenger et al 2011 PSNERP strategic needs assessment.pdf
- File:Hood 2009 skagit monitoring strategy.pdf
- Quinn et al 2013 coho salmon elwha delta pre restoration
- File:Hood 2012 tidal channel reference model.xlsx
- Beck et al 2001 estuarine nursery conservation
- Temmerman et al. 2005
- File:Fresh et al 2004 guidance restoration protection.pdf
- Collins & Sheik 2005 reconstruction of puget sound tidal marsh
- File:TNC 2013 fisher slough lessons learned.pdf
- Simenstad & Cordell 2000 habitat assessment for salmon
- Kirwan and Guntenspergen 2010
- File:Cereghino 2021 delta adaptive management draft (2010-13).pdf
- File:Guthrie 2012 tidal fresh swamp revegetation.pdf
- Edmonds & Slingerland 2007 delta distributary bifurcation from bar formation
- File:WDFW 2015 monitoring adaptive management plan.pdf
- File:PWA 2008 deschutes estuary restoration feasibility.pdf
- File:CLAMP 2009 capitol lake steering committee recommendation.pdf
- Morris et al 2002 coastal wetland sea level rise
- File:Cereghino 2014 delta consortium memo to watershed leads.pdf
- Hood 2007 wood and skagit delta shrub swamp
- Frenkel & Morlan 1990 salmon river salt marsh restoration
- File:Hood 2019 fir island farms monitoring yr3.pdf
- File:Beechie et al 2017 salmon habitat status monitoring.pdf
- File:Hood 2013 channel geometry model.pdf
- File:Fuller et al 2014 port susan monitoring report.pdf
- File:Cereghino 2007 qwuloolt wetland assessment.pdf
- File:WWAA et al 2008 tidegates and fish initiative agreeement.pdf
- Fagherazzi et al 2012 salt marsh evolution models
- File:Cornu et al 2008 large wood placement in tidal wetlands.pdf
- File:Greene & Beamer 2011 skagit intensively monitored watershed report.pdf
- File:Boyd 2013 fisher slough monitoring lessons.pdf
- File:Czuba et al 2011 sediment budgets in puget sound rivers.pdf
- File:Meidev & Neslon 2016 qwuloolt lessons learned.pdf
- File:Fuller 2018 tnc port susan bay final monitoring report.pdf
- Frenkel & Eilers 1976 upper limit of oregon tidal marsh
- File:Shannon & Wilson Inc 2011 fir island farms feasibility study.pdf
- File:Fresh 2006 juvenile salmon in nearshore.pdf
- Yang and Khangaonkar 2009
- Simenstad et al 2004 urban estuary restoration challenge
- File:SnoCD 2016 DRAFT climate change effects on agricultural drainage proposal.pdf
- File:Dean 2011 farm succession strategies.pdf
- Jefferson 1974 oregon salt marsh communities
- File:Yang & Khangaonkar 2007.pdf
- Yang et al. 2010b
- File:Greene et al 2021 chinook salmon estuary density dependance.pdf
- File:Hall et al 2019 DRAFT snohomish monitoring plan.pdf
- File:Beamer 2016 fisher slough restoration effectiveness.pdf
- File:Beamer et al 2013 fisher slough fish monitoring 2011.pdf
- File:Grossman 2013 skokomish survey notes.pdf
- File:Cereghino 2013 delta metrics exploratory analysis.pptx
- File:Wright 2021 integrated floodplain management puget sound.pdf
- Morris 2007 biomass affects salt marsh accretion
- File:Griffith & Fuller 2012 stillaguamish delta restoration target DRAFT.pdf
- File:Barber 2014 vegetation and sediment at port susan.pdf
- Eilers 1974 nehalem marsh biogeography
- File:Beamer 2014 nisqually connectivity effects on salmon density.pdf
- Yang et al 2011 model flood and tide
- Hutchinson 1988 salt tolerance of plants
- File:Cereghino 2015 accelerating estuary restoration.pdf
- File:Smith et al 2005 tide gate salmon recovery analysis skagit.pdf
- File:Fuller 2018 ESRP Webinar restoration stress resilience climate change Stillaguamish lessons.pdf
- File:Landscape Connectivity Table1.docx
- Hood 2014 natural tidal channel model
- File:USACE 2011 qwuloolt environmental assessment.pdf
- File:TNC 2012 port susan stewardship plan.pdf
- File:Dethier 1990 puget sound shoreline classification.pdf
- File:Rice 2011 DRAFT qwuloolt monitoring plan.pdf
Documents Uploaded (On-Wiki)
- Hughes et al 2014 nursery functions of estuaries.pdf
- Brophy & van de Wetering 2012 ni-les'ton tidal wetland restoration monitoring.pdf
- Beamer et al 2013 fisher slough fish monitoring 2012.pdf
- Snohomish County 2015 diking district 6 maintenance.pdf
- TNC 2014 fir island farms construction strategy recommendations.pdf
- Lyons & Ramsey 2013 tide gate synthesis.pdf
- Fuller et al 2011 using sea level rise model results.pdf
- Boyd 2016 hat slough & fisher slough lessons learned.pdf
- Fuller & McArdle 2014 marsh erosion at stillaguamish delta.pdf
- Stilly Sediment Reuse Agenda Draft 2014 Jan29.pdf
- Beamer et al 2007 fish assemblage greater skagit delta.pdf
- Hinton & Hood 2007.pdf
- Lipsky 2010 whidbey stakeholder preferences.pdf
- MacDonald et al 2013 elwha nearshore workshop proceedings.pdf
- Parametrix 2010 fisher slough monitoring plan.pdf
- Beamer et al 2006 deepwater slough effectiveness.pdf
- Breslow 2001 farmer perception of salmon recovery.pdf
- PGG 2012 leque island restoration camano island groundwater.pdf
- Ellings 2011 Nisqually Monitoring Framework.pdf
- Habitat Strategic Initiative 2021 estuary and floodplain implementation strategy.pdf
- City of Everett 2001 snohomish estuary wetland salmon overlay.pdf
- Snohomish County 2020 smith and mid-spencer monitoring year 0-1.pdf
- TNC 2011.pdf
- Greene & Beamer 2005 skagit delta recovery plan analysis.pdf
- Rossenkotter et al 2007 nearshore salmon recovery gap analysis.pdf
- Cereghino 2015 coordinated investment snohomish framework.pdf
- TNC 2017 fisher slough restoration summary.pdf
- TNC 2012 port susan restoration as-built plans.pdf
- SDHP 2014 skagit hydrodynamic model report.pdf
- Beamer et al 2018 fir island farms fish monitoring 2015-18.pdf
- Roegner et al 2008 columbia river estuary restoration monitoring protocols.pdf
- TNC 2014 port susan monitoring progress.pdf
- Woo et al 2011 port susan monitoring plan.pdf
- Greene et al 2012 effects of tidegates on fish.pdf
- Baek et al 2015 mid-spencer 60% design.pdf
- Fuller 2015 stillaguamish pore water salinity memo.pdf
- WDFW 2015 delta restoration replacement lands.pdf
- PWA et al 2004 fir island connector assessment.pdf
- Takekawa & Woo 2013 niqually delta monitoring proposal.pdf
- Zu Ermgassen et al 2016 oyster restoration objectives for ecosystem services.pdf
- Porrini 2018 fir island farms invertebrate monitoring.pdf
- Weinerman et al 2012 fisher slough economic benefits.pdf
- Fuller 2014 stillaguamish dredged sediment reuse.pdf
- ESRP 2012 red salmon slough revegetation deliverables.pdf
- Baker et al 2016 estuary restoration lessons learned.pdf
- Arcos 2012 skokomish channel stability.pdf
- Friebel 2016 fir island farms lessons learned.pdf
- Goetz et al 2004 PSNERP restoration principles.pdf
- Grossman et al 2011 skagit shallow stratigraphy.pdf
- Schlenger et al 2011 PSNERP strategic needs assessment.pdf
- Hood 2009 skagit monitoring strategy.pdf
- Hood 2012 tidal channel reference model.xlsx
- Fresh et al 2004 guidance restoration protection.pdf
- TNC 2013 fisher slough lessons learned.pdf
- Cereghino 2021 delta adaptive management draft (2010-13).pdf
- Guthrie 2012 tidal fresh swamp revegetation.pdf
- WDFW 2015 monitoring adaptive management plan.pdf
- PWA 2008 deschutes estuary restoration feasibility.pdf
- CLAMP 2009 capitol lake steering committee recommendation.pdf
- Cereghino 2014 delta consortium memo to watershed leads.pdf
- Hood 2019 fir island farms monitoring yr3.pdf
- Beechie et al 2017 salmon habitat status monitoring.pdf
- Hood 2013 channel geometry model.pdf
- Fuller et al 2014 port susan monitoring report.pdf
- Cereghino 2007 qwuloolt wetland assessment.pdf
- WWAA et al 2008 tidegates and fish initiative agreeement.pdf
- Cornu et al 2008 large wood placement in tidal wetlands.pdf
- Greene & Beamer 2011 skagit intensively monitored watershed report.pdf
- Boyd 2013 fisher slough monitoring lessons.pdf
- Czuba et al 2011 sediment budgets in puget sound rivers.pdf
- Meidev & Neslon 2016 qwuloolt lessons learned.pdf
- Fuller 2018 tnc port susan bay final monitoring report.pdf
- Shannon & Wilson Inc 2011 fir island farms feasibility study.pdf
- Fresh 2006 juvenile salmon in nearshore.pdf
- SnoCD 2016 DRAFT climate change effects on agricultural drainage proposal.pdf
- Dean 2011 farm succession strategies.pdf
- Yang & Khangaonkar 2007.pdf
- Greene et al 2021 chinook salmon estuary density dependance.pdf
- Hall et al 2019 DRAFT snohomish monitoring plan.pdf
- Beamer 2016 fisher slough restoration effectiveness.pdf
- Beamer et al 2013 fisher slough fish monitoring 2011.pdf
- Grossman 2013 skokomish survey notes.pdf
- Cereghino 2013 delta metrics exploratory analysis.pptx
- Wright 2021 integrated floodplain management puget sound.pdf
- Griffith & Fuller 2012 stillaguamish delta restoration target DRAFT.pdf
- Barber 2014 vegetation and sediment at port susan.pdf
- Beamer 2014 nisqually connectivity effects on salmon density.pdf
- Cereghino 2015 accelerating estuary restoration.pdf
- Smith et al 2005 tide gate salmon recovery analysis skagit.pdf
- Fuller 2018 ESRP Webinar restoration stress resilience climate change Stillaguamish lessons.pdf
- Landscape Connectivity Table1.docx
- USACE 2011 qwuloolt environmental assessment.pdf
- TNC 2012 port susan stewardship plan.pdf
- Dethier 1990 puget sound shoreline classification.pdf
- Rice 2011 DRAFT qwuloolt monitoring plan.pdf
Other Files
- File:Delta nisqually.JPG
- File:Delta island sketch.jpg
- File:Fisher slough tidegate.jpg
- File:Red salmon phase 2 panne from west.jpg
- File:Grossman 2013 delta sediment dynamics presentation.pptx
- File:Delta marsh recruitment.JPG
- File:Skokomish-project footprint.jpg
- File:Port susan flood gate.jpg
- File:Stillaguamish delta restoration sites.jpg
- File:Delta tree recruitment.JPG
- File:Leque construction aerial south landscape view.jpg
- File:Simenstad et al 2011 Columbia Delta Classification.pdf
- File:Red salmon nick point near nisqually breach.jpg
- File:Leque eroding dike.jpg
- File:Leque leaking dike.jpg
- File:Estuary salmon recovery.png
- File:Stillaguamish lidar.jpg
- File:Port susan dike remnant.JPG
- File:Cereghino 2014 delta learning program.pptx
- File:SkagitNearshoreChange2010-1890 foto sm.jpg
- File:North Fork Skagit River Fishtown Bar area.JPG
- File:Skokomish restoration.jpg
- File:Leque construction aerial machines.jpg
- File:Leque machines new channel.jpg
- File:Stillaguamish Delta LiDAR 2013b.jpg
- File:Tidal channel islands.png
- File:Qwuloolt first flood.jpg
- File:Port susan borrow ditch.JPG
- File:SnohomishTSheet.tif
- File:Skokomish restoration excavator.jpg
- File:Leque south pass old road.jpg
- File:Nisqually 1889.jpg
- File:Qwuloolt first flood.png
- File:Deschutes delta and frigate.jpg
- File:Stillaguamish port susan sunset.JPG
- File:Snohomish delta restoration.jpg
- File:Landscape Connectivity Figure1.docx
- File:Nisqually delta current.jpg
- File:Smith island dike removal.jpg
- File:Cereghino 2013 delta learning presentation.pdf
- File:Delta map with chinook rivers.png
- File:Mt. Wash photopoint.pdf
- File:Smith island aerial 2011 NAIP NIR.png
- File:Snohomish delta after.jpg
- File:Leque first tides.jpg
- File:Nisqually 2006.jpg
- File:Elwha delta 13-0401.jpg
- File:Grossman ExecutiveSummary RecoveringSedimentToSustainDeltaMarsh.pdf
- File:Qwuloolt monitoring plan.jpg
- File:Leque channels.jpg
- File:Skagit-stillaguamish delta site.png
- File:Nisqually refuge from near ring dike.jpg
- File:Fisher slough beach seine.JPG
- File:Nisqually 2013.jpg
- File:DeltaWorkshopOutputs April2012 DRAFT.doc
- File:Elwha delta 13-0401.jpg
- File:Tidal channel islands.png
- File:Fisher slough tidegate.jpg
- File:Delta nisqually.JPG
- File:Delta tree recruitment.JPG
- File:Delta marsh recruitment.JPG
- File:Smith island aerial 2011 NAIP NIR.png
- File:Mt. Wash photopoint.pdf
- File:Fisher slough beach seine.JPG
- File:Deschutes delta and frigate.jpg
- File:Stillaguamish port susan sunset.JPG
- File:Stillaguamish delta restoration sites.jpg
- File:North Fork Skagit River Fishtown Bar area.JPG
- File:Nisqually 1889.jpg
- File:Nisqually 2006.jpg
- File:Nisqually 2013.jpg
- File:Nisqually refuge from near ring dike.jpg
- File:Red salmon nick point near nisqually breach.jpg
- File:Red salmon phase 2 panne from west.jpg
- File:SkagitNearshoreChange2010-1890 foto sm.jpg
- File:Qwuloolt monitoring plan.jpg
- File:Snohomish delta restoration.jpg
- File:Stillaguamish lidar.jpg
- File:Delta island sketch.jpg
- File:Qwuloolt first flood.jpg
- File:Port susan flood gate.jpg
- File:Port susan borrow ditch.JPG
- File:Port susan dike remnant.JPG
- File:Leque leaking dike.jpg
- File:Leque eroding dike.jpg
- File:Leque south pass old road.jpg
- File:Leque construction aerial south landscape view.jpg
- File:Leque construction aerial machines.jpg
- File:Leque first tides.jpg
- File:Leque machines new channel.jpg
- File:SnohomishTSheet.tif