Client: Teton River Watershed Council, Alan Rollo, Coordinator
An assessment of the Teton River near Choteau identified several destabilizing irrigation diversions, where aggradation was causing significant amounts of gravelly sediments to build up, which were then dredged every year for irrigation purposes. Watershed Consulting designed and implemented alternative irrigation diversions which improved fish habitat, reduced aggradation and erosion and provided for long-term riparian restoration using brush bars and willow cuttings.
Personnel involved: Steve Buckley, Hydrologist, Project Manager Mike Koopal: Fish Biologist Mark VanderMeer: Restoration Ecologist