Water Resource and Reservoir Management
-Workshop Agenda-

9:00 a.m. Components of Water Resource Management Systems

  • Dynamic Operation of Reservoirs and Water Resource Systems
  • Real-time Data Networks
  • Historic Hydrometeorlogic Databases
  • Modeling Software: Simulation and Optimization
  • Interactive Graphical Modeling using PC's and Engineering Workstations

10:00 a.m. Reservoir Management Systems

Cedar and Tolt Watersheds, Seattle Water Department

  • Topography, Hydrometeorlogic Characteristics, Groundwater Aquifers
  • Reservoirs, Diversions, Pipelines
  • "Auto-Adjust" for downstream diversions, minimum and maximum flows
  • Operations for normal conditions, floods, droughts
  • Data Preprocessor

Tuolumne River Watershed, Turlock Irrigation District

  • Topography and Hydrometeorologic Characteristics
  • Reservoirs, Hydroelectric Projects and Irrigation 
  • Optimization of Operations

12:30 noon Lunch

1:45 p.m. Reservoir Analysis

  • Reservoir Operations-Expected Water Supplies
  • Traditional and Actual "Safe-Yield"
  • 65 year, Alternate Futures Run with Historic Maximum-Minimum and Probabilistic Outputs
  • Dynamic Development of Reservoir Operations

3:00 p.m. Optimization in Reservoir Management

  • Optimization Methods
  • Objectives and Constraints
  • Decisions and Tradeoffs
  • Future Trends

5:00 p.m. Adjourn


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