Dredging the reservoir might be a good option however I don't think it makes sense for the bow river. I wonder if the reservoir would be a better fishing lake etc if it was dredged all over. I remember 15+ years ago the reservoir seemed more like a lake than it does now. Now when I go there I’m always surprised by the meandering streams and marshland / tributary like area around weaselhead that looks more like a flood plain than a reservoir.
Regarding the bow, at some points in the fall and early spring the flow of the bow looks almost nonexistent. There are parts you could walk across. I can't imagine digging it deeper would do much other than ruin the existing bed. That said, I also don't have the faintest idea how it would work. Would you dig deeper areas where it floods so they’re like pools? Wouldn't those areas just fill up instantly until prior equilibrium was reached at which point it would spill over anyway?
Seems too complicated to even clearly type out what I'm thinking let alone understand river dredging.
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