Reviewer 1 Highlights corrected Sediment dynamic differed during flushing operations and flood events Line 15 corrected The Rhône River (France) has been used for energy production for decades and 21 dams have been built. Line 29-In general it is not advisable to start a sentence with an acronym, rather right it out in full corrected The SPM contamination was generally lower than during baseflow and flood regimes. Line 131 corrected More than 3 x 106 m3 of SPM were thus stored in the Verbois reservoir between 2003 and 2012 (Services industriels de Genève, 2014). Line 133 corrected [...] which transports ~0.7 x 106 m3 of SPM per year (approx. 1 to 3 tons dry weight) [...] Line 309-314-This section reads as introduction or as part of the discussion According to reviewer 4, this section was moved in the Materials and Method part.