Allmendinger, N.E., Pizzuto, J.E., Moglen, G.E., Lewicki, M. 2007. A Sediment Budget for an Urbanizing Watershed, 1951-1996, Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S.A. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. American Water Resources Association, Middleburg, VA. Volume 43, Number 6. Pages 1483–1498

floodplain, sediment, stream, urban

Despite widespread interest, few sediment budgets are available to document patterns of erosion and sedimentation in developing watersheds. A sediment budget for the Good Hope Tributary, a small watershed (4.05 km2) in Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1951-1996 was developed using a variety of indirect and stratigraphic methods.