Prediction of Vegetation Cover Effect on Bank and Bed Hydraulic Roughness Coefficient in Shiraz Khoshk River

Soil and water resources management of rivers has an important role because of direct relation withdifferent systems such as earth, life, social and people. Although the use of vegetation cover inbioengineering and biological stabilization and also soil and water resources management projects hasmany advantages, but improper methods of design and implementation cause hydraulic specificationsof river alter. The vegetation cover in river reach decreases flow mean velocity, river's width andincreases sedimentation in river bed and therefore discharge capacity be reduced. In this paper, we willinvestigated different projects of retrieval vegetation cover and bioengineering in Shiraz Khoshk Riveras an influential element in Shiraz city and their effects on hydraulic specifications of river. Also,advantages and disadvantages of bioengineering and biological stabilization projects of the river arediscussed. Also problematic river reach caused by improper biological stabilization was identified andthe inappropriate implementation effects of vegetation cover on increase of hydraulic roughnesscoefficient and reduction of discharge capacity were investigated. Based on results, although erosionrate of Khoshk River’s banks in sections without vegetation cover was more than sections withvegetation cover, sometimes vegetation cover caused a significant increase of hydraulic roughnesscoefficient and significant reduction of section area and discharge capacity. The Khoshk River’ssections such as upstream and downstream of Chamran Boulevard Bridge, upstream of Ghadir Bridgeand downstream of Fazilat Bridge were analyzed by HEC-RAS. In these sections for stream flowvalues of 100 to 250 m3/sec, reduction of 10 to 28.5% was obtained.