Bedload Sediment Transport and Morphologic Data in an Unrestored and Restored Reach of Wilket Creek, Toronto, Canada.

An increasing amount of emphasis is placed on shifting the goals of urban river restoration from restoring form to restoring processes. However, river restoration practices often do not explicitly design or monitor for bedload transport processes, despite its importance for channel stability and ecological health. This project monitors the movement of coarse sediment and morphological change through a newly restored section of Wilket Creek (Toronto), and directly compares bedload transport processes with an adjacent un-restored section. This study presents a means of monitoring bedload transport processes in restored rivers, and results can inform future river restoration designs. Funding for this data collection was provided by an NSERC Strategic Grant (STPGP 463321-14, Assessing and restoringthe resilience of urban stream networks). This data collected will also be used to support the project titled 'Linking Stream Network Process Models to Robust Data Management Systems for the Purpose of Land-Use Decision Support', which is funded under the Global Water Futures Program funded by Canada First Research Excellence Fund.