The analysis of variability of riverbed elevation recorded at three selected gauging cross-sections: Raków, Staszów and Połaniec on Czarna River is presented in the current paper. The studies concern the period of more than fifty year. Focus was on the analysis of the riverbed changes in relation with known anthropogenic activities in the bed of the river. In addition, an analysis of grine size distribution of sediment forming the river channel was examined. The studie was done in order to identify the structure of riverbed, as well as the intensity of sediment movement throughout the ricer course. Czarna river is a left tributary of the Vistula river, at a considerable length, is transformed as a result of technical river channel regultion. At 36+000 km of the river course, Chańcza dam was set. The mouth of Czarna river is located close to the Town of Połaniec. The river channel aspire to shape a new longitudinal profile of hydrodynamic balance in new conditions of fluvial system, by changing its shape in the vertical and horizontal direction. As indicated by river channel observations, changes are very fast after a disturbance, after which they are weakening, and the riverbed reaches again hydrodynamic equilibrium (eg. ...
The analysis of variability of riverbed elevation recorded at three selected gauging cross-sections: Stróża on Raba River and Żywiec and Oświęcin on Soła River is presented in the current paper. The studies concern the period of more than one hundred year. Focus was on the analysis of the river course maintenance in selected gauging stations. Research shows that the river course may change spacially and temporally with varying inensity. In the period of 50 - 100 years, these changes can be slight, but it can be also observed permanent change in the direction of the river channel development. The paper presents the trends of riverbed changes during the long period of time in selected mountain tributaries of the upper Vistula River, which were studied on the basis on the variability of observed mean annual water stages. In the paper there are given the reasons for the observed changes in the river course and channel geometry, which were caused by river regulation relayed on the shortening and narrowing of the river channel or the sediment exploitation. Presented in the article method of assessment of the variability of the river channels level in the long period of time may be the ...
