Recommendations for restoration and rehabilitation of turbidity and sediment impacts to the Sylvan Pass Hydrologic System: Yellowstone National Park
Penoyer P, Rosenlieb G, Wireman M, Thackston J. 2008. Recommendations for restoration and rehabilitation of turbidity and sediment impacts to the Sylvan Pass Hydrologic System: Yellowstone National Park. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NRPC/NRR—2008/054. National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center. Fort Collins, Colorado
This report represents the consensus findings of an independent team of hydrogeologists, hydrologists, and a wetlands scientist on the source of sediment causing turbidity that has been and continues to be discharged through the Sylvan Pass Hydrologic System to Mammoth Crystal Springs. The team offers recommendations to remediate and restore the system to as close a naturally functioning system as possible. There is consensus that a strong correlation exists between past and current turbidity events observed in ground water discharge, and down gradient surface water bodies in Sylvan Gulch, and sediment generated by rock quarrying and gravel crushing operations (an anthropogenic source) located at Sylvan Pass in Yellowstone National Park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Penoyer, P.; Rosenlieb, G.; Wireman, M.; Thackston, J.
- Date of Issue
- 2008
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center
- Units
- NRSS