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Evaluating Hydrologically Connected Surface Water and Groundwater Using a Groundwater Model 下载免费PDF全文
Ruopu Li Mahesh Pun Jesse Bradley Gengxin Ou Jim Schneider Brandi Flyr Jessie Winter Sudhansh Chinta 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2016,52(3):799-805
Determination of the nature and extent of the connection between groundwater and surface water is of paramount importance to managing water supplies. The development of analyses that detail the surface water‐groundwater system may lead to more effective utilization of available water. A tool was developed to help determine the effects of groundwater and surface water interactions. The software tool includes two graphic user interfaces to allow full compatibility with numerical MODFLOW groundwater models. This case study shows the tool, in conjunction with MODFLOW groundwater models and carefully designed scenarios, can successfully calculate the rates of stream‐groundwater interactions, thereby providing the basis for designating management areas with the most significant hydrologic impact. This tool can be applied in other regions with similar settings and needs for integrated water management. 相似文献
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David J. Hess Christopher A. Wold Scott C. Worland George M. Hornberger 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2017,53(2):442-455
This article (1) discusses existing efforts to measure water conservation policies (WCPs) in the United States (U.S.); (2) suggests general methodological guidelines for creating robust water conservation indices (WCIs); (3) presents a comprehensive template for coding WCPs; (4) introduces a summary index, the Vanderbilt Water Conservation Index (VWCI), which is derived from 79 WCP observations for 197 cities for the year 2015; and (5) compares the VWCI to WCP data extracted from the 2010 American Water Works Association (AWWA) Water and Wastewater Rates survey. Existing approaches to measuring urban WCPs in U.S. cities are limited because they consider only a portion of WCPs or they are restricted geographically. The VWCI consists of a more comprehensive set of 79 observations classified as residential, commercial/industrial, billing structure, drought plan, or general. Our comparison of the VWCI and AWWA survey responses indicate reasonable agreement (ρ = 0.76) between the two WCIs for 98 cities where the data overlap. The correlation suggests the AWWA survey responses can provide fairly robust longitudinal WCP information, but we argue the measurement of WCPs is still in its infancy, and our approach suggests strategies for improving existing methods. 相似文献
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R.D. Moore J.W. Trubilowicz J.M Buttle 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2012,48(1):32-42
Moore, R.D. (Dan), J.W. Trubilowicz, and J.M. Buttle, 2011. Prediction of Streamflow Regime and Annual Runoff for Ungauged Basins Using a Distributed Monthly Water Balance Model. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 48(1): 32‐42. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752‐1688.2011.00595.x Abstract: Prediction of streamflow in ungauged basins is a global challenge, but is particularly an issue in physiographically complex regions like British Columbia (BC), Canada. The objective of this study was to assess the accuracy of a simple water balance model that can be run using existing spatial datasets. The model was developed by modifying an existing monthly water balance model to account for interception loss from forest canopy, glacier melt, and evaporation from lakes. The model was run using monthly climate normals from the ClimateBC application, which have a horizontal resolution of 400 m. Each ClimateBC grid cell was classified as forest, open land, glacier or water surface based on provincial scale digital maps of biogeoclimatic zones, glaciers, and water. The output was monthly mean runoff from each grid cell. These values were integrated within the catchment boundaries for streams gauged by the Water Survey of Canada. Annual runoff was predicted with modest accuracy: after updating the predicted runoff by interpolating errors from neighboring gauged streams, the mean absolute error was 25.4% of the gauged value, and 52% of the streams had errors less than 20%. However, the model appears to be quite robust in distinguishing between pluvial, hybrid, and melt‐dominated hydroclimatic regimes, and therefore has promise as a tool for catchment classification. 相似文献
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Urban Streamflow Response to Imported Water and Water Conservation Policies in Los Angeles,California 下载免费PDF全文
Kimberly F. Manago Terri S. Hogue 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2017,53(3):626-640
Los Angeles has a long history of importing water; however, drought, climate change, and environmental mitigation have forced the City to focus on developing more local water sources (target of 50% local supply by 2035). This study aims to improve understanding of water cycling in Los Angeles, including the impacts of imported water and water conservation policies. We evaluate the influence of local water restrictions on discharge records for 12 years in the Ballona Creek (urban) and Topanga Creek (natural) watersheds. Results show imported water has significantly altered the timing and volume of streamflow in the urban Ballona watershed, resulting in runoff ratios above one (more streamflow than precipitation). Further analysis comparing pre‐ vs. during‐mandatory water conservation periods shows there is a significant decrease in dry season streamflow during‐conservation in Ballona, indicating that prior to conservation efforts, heavy irrigation and other outdoor water use practices were contributing to streamflow. The difference between summer streamflow pre‐ vs. during‐conservation is enough to serve 160,000 customers in Los Angeles. If Los Angeles returns to more watering days, educating the public on proper irrigation rates is critical for ensuring efficient irrigation and conserving water; however, if water restrictions remain in place, the City must take the new flow volumes into account for complying with water quality standards in the region. 相似文献
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Mehmet B. Ercan Iman Maghami Benjamin D. Bowes Mohamed M. Morsy Jonathan L. Goodall 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2020,56(1):53-67
Climate change poses water resource challenges for many already water stressed watersheds throughout the world. One such watershed is the Upper Neuse Watershed in North Carolina, which serves as a water source for the large and growing Research Triangle Park region. The aim of this study was to quantify possible changes in the watershed’s water balance due to climate change. To do this, we used the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model forced with different climate scenarios for baseline, mid‐century, and end‐century time periods using five different downscaled General Circulation Models. Before running these scenarios, the SWAT model was calibrated and validated using daily streamflow records within the watershed. The study results suggest that, even under a mitigation scenario, precipitation will increase by 7.7% from the baseline to mid‐century time period and by 9.8% between the baseline and end‐century time period. Over the same periods, evapotranspiration (ET) would decrease by 5.5 and 7.6%, water yield would increase by 25.1% and 33.2%, and soil water would increase by 1.4% and 1.9%. Perhaps most importantly, the model results show, under a high emission scenario, large seasonal differences with ET estimated to decrease by up to 42% and water yield to increase by up to 157% in late summer and fall. Planning for the wetter predicted future and corresponding seasonal changes will be critical for mitigating the impacts of climate change on water resources. 相似文献
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How to Constrain Multi‐Objective Calibrations of the SWAT Model Using Water Balance Components 下载免费PDF全文
Matthias Pfannerstill Katrin Bieger Björn Guse David D. Bosch Nicola Fohrer Jeffrey G. Arnold 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2017,53(3):532-546
Accurate discharge simulation is one of the most common objectives of hydrological modeling studies. However, a good simulation of discharge is not necessarily the result of a realistic simulation of hydrological processes within the catchment. We propose an evaluation framework that considers both discharge and water balance components as evaluation criteria for calibration of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). In this study, we integrated average annual values of surface runoff, groundwater flow, and evapotranspiration in the model evaluation procedure to constrain the selection of good model runs for the Little River Experimental Watershed in Georgia, United States. For evaluating water balance and discharge dynamics, the Nash‐Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) and percent bias (PBIAS) were used. In addition, the ratio of root mean square error and standard deviation of measured data (RSR) was calculated for individual segments of the flow duration curve to identify the best model runs in terms of discharge magnitude. Our results indicate that good statistics for discharge do not guarantee realistic simulations of individual water balance components. Therefore, we recommend constraining the ranges of water balance components to achieve a more realistic simulation of the entire hydrological system, even if tradeoffs between good statistics for discharge simulations and reasonable amounts of the water balance components are unavoidable. Editor's note : This paper is part of the featured series on SWAT Applications for Emerging Hydrologic and Water Quality Challenges. See the February 2017 issue for the introduction and background to the series. 相似文献
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水危机与中水回用技术方法的探讨 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
张雪 《中国环境管理干部学院学报》2009,19(2):95-98
世界与国内水资源短缺的现状表明中水回用十分迫切。本文介绍了国内外中水回用的应用情况,表明该技术对缓解世界与国内的用水压力起着举足轻重的作用。阐述了中水回用的技术方法、水质要求及工艺流程,讨论了中水回用的实际意义,结论表明:中水回用提高了水的利用率,实现了水资源的可持续发展。 相似文献
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Stephanie L. Johnson David R. Maidment Mary J. Kirisits 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2013,49(4):838-850
Bacterial contamination accounts for more than 60% of the impairments included on the 2008 Texas 303(d) List. Many of these bacterial impairments are along the Texas Gulf Coast because coastal waters often are regulated for oyster harvesting, which have strict water quality standards. Under the Clean Water Act, each one of these impaired waterbodies requires a total maximum daily load (TMDL) study to be performed. A recent, statewide study recommended the development and application of simple modeling approaches to address the majority of Texas's bacteria TMDLs, including “… simple load duration curve, GIS [geographic information systems], and/or mass balance models.” We developed the TMDL Balance model in response to this recommendation. TMDL Balance is a steady state, mass balance, GIS‐based model for simulating pollutant loads and concentrations in coastal systems. The model uses plug‐flow reactor and continuously‐stirred tank reactor equations to route spatially distributed point and nonpoint source loads through a watershed via overland flow, non‐tidal flow, and tidal flow, decaying the loads via first‐order kinetics. In this paper, we explain the development of the watershed loading portion of the TMDL Balance model, demonstrating the methodology through a case study: computing bacterial loads in the Copano Bay watershed of southeast Texas. The application highlights an example of distributing bacterial sources spatially based on land use data. 相似文献
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冀东油田采油污水经过处理合格后,用于采油注水,污水处理后质量合格与否直接影响油田原油开采效果。通过联合站原污水处理工艺的改造,特别是核桃壳过滤器增加加药口,加强反冲洗及生化处理技术的改进等,达到了一定的效果,使水质有了很大的改善,促进了油田的开采和污水回用技术的发展。 相似文献
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Non-point-source (NPS) pollution remains the primary source of stream impairment in the United States. Many problems such
as eutrophication, sedimentation, and hypoxia are linked with NPS pollution which reduces the water quality for aquatic and
terrestrial organisms. Increasingly, NPS pollution models have been used for landscape-scale pollution assessment and conservation
strategy development. Our modeling approach functions at a scale between simple landscape-level assessments and complex, data-intensive
modeling by providing a rapid, landscape-scale geographic information system (GIS) model with minimal data requirements and
widespread applicability. Our model relies on curve numbers, literature-derived pollution concentrations, and land status
to evaluate total phosphorus (TP), total nitrogen (TN), and suspended solids (SS) at the reach scale. Model testing in the
Chesapeake Bay watershed indicated that predicted distributions of water quality classes were realistic at the reach scale,
but precise estimates of pollution concentrations at the local scale can have errors. Application of our model in the tributary
watersheds along Lake Ontario suggested that it is useful to managers in watershed planning by rapidly providing important
information about NPS pollution conditions in areas where large data gaps exist, comparisons among stream reaches across numerous
watersheds are required, or regional assessments are sought. 相似文献
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Michael J. White Daniel E. Storm Philip Busteed Scott Stoodley Shannon J. Phillips 《Environmental management》2010,45(5):1164-1174
In the United States, many state and federally funded conservation programs are required to quantify the water quality benefits
resulting from their efforts. The objective of this research was to evaluate the impact of conservation practices subsidized
by the Oklahoma Conservation Commission on phosphorus and sediment loads to Lake Wister. Conservation practices designed to
increase vegetative cover in grazed pastures were evaluated using Landsat imagery and the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT).
Several vegetative indices were derived from Landsat imagery captured before and after the implementation of conservation
practices. Collectively, these indicators provided an estimate of the change in vegetative soil cover attributable to conservation
practices in treated fields. Field characteristics, management, and changes in vegetative cover were used in the SWAT model
to simulate sediment and phosphorus losses before and after practice implementation. Overall, these conservation practices
yielded a 1.9% improvement in vegetative cover and a predicted sediment load reduction of 3.5%. Changes in phosphorus load
ranged from a 1.0% improvement to a 3.5% increase, depending upon initial vegetative conditions. The use of fertilizers containing
phosphorus as a conservation practice in low-productivity pastures was predicted by SWAT to increase net phosphorus losses
despite any improvement in vegetative cover. This combination of vegetative cover analysis and hydrologic simulation was a
useful tool for evaluating the effects of conservation practices at the basin scale and may provide guidance for the selection
of conservation measures subsidized in future conservation programs. 相似文献
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Jun Wang Theodore A. Endreny David J. Nowak 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2008,44(1):75-85
Abstract: A semidistributed, physical‐based Urban Forest Effects – Hydrology (UFORE‐Hydro) model was created to simulate and study tree effects on urban hydrology and guide management of urban runoff at the catchment scale. The model simulates hydrological processes of precipitation, interception, evaporation, infiltration, and runoff using data inputs of weather, elevation, and land cover along with nine channel, soil, and vegetation parameters. Weather data are pre‐processed by UFORE using Penman‐Monteith equations to provide potential evaporation terms for open water and vegetation. Canopy interception algorithms modified established routines to better account for variable density urban trees, short vegetation, and seasonal growth phenology. Actual evaporation algorithms allocate potential energy between leaf surface storage and transpiration from soil storage. Infiltration algorithms use a variable rain rate Green‐Ampt formulation and handle both infiltration excess and saturation excess ponding and runoff. Stream discharge is the sum of surface runoff and TOPMODEL‐based subsurface flow equations. Automated calibration routines that use observed discharge has been coupled to the model. Once calibrated, the model can examine how alternative tree management schemes impact urban runoff. UFORE‐Hydro model testing in the urban Dead Run catchment of Baltimore, Maryland, illustrated how trees significantly reduce runoff for low intensity and short duration precipitation events. 相似文献
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Cheng‐Shin Jang Chen‐Wuing Liu Shih‐Kai Chen Wen‐Sheng Lin 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2012,48(1):61-73
Jang, Cheng‐Shin, Chen‐Wuing Liu, Shih‐Kai Chen, and Wen‐Sheng Lin, 2011. Using a Mass Balance Model to Evaluate Groundwater Budget of Seawater‐Intruded Island Aquifers. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 48(1): 61‐73. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752‐1688.2011.00593.x Abstract: The study developed a mass balance model to evaluate the groundwater budget of seawater‐intruded island aquifers using limited available data. The Penghu islands were selected as a study area. As sparse observed data were available in the islands, methods of combining water and chloride balances were used to determine the amounts of groundwater pumping, seawater intrusion, aquifer storages, and safe yields in the shallow and deep aquifers. The groundwater budget shows that seawater intrusion to freshwater aquifers was 1.38 × 106 and 0.29 × 106 m3/year in the shallow and deep aquifers, respectively, indicating that the seawater intrusion is severe in the both aquifers. The safe yield of the shallow aquifer was 14.56 × 106 m3/year in 2005 which was four times higher than that of the deep aquifer (3.70 × 106 m3/year). However, the annual pumping amounts in the shallow and deep aquifers were 4.77 × 106 and 3.63 × 106 m3/year, respectively. Although the safe yield of the shallow aquifer is enough for all water resources demands, only 55% of exploitation amount was extracted from the shallow aquifer due to its poor water quality. Groundwater exploitation in the deep aquifer should be significantly reduced and regulated by a dynamic management of pumping scheme because the annual pumping amounts are close to the safe yield and seawater intrusion occurs continually. Additionally, to alleviate further aquifer salination, at least half of the current annual groundwater abstraction should be reduced. 相似文献
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Soil and water conservation (SWC) contests among farmer groups were organized in five rural villages in the Bolivian mountain
valleys. The contests were aimed at quickly achieving widespread sustainable results. This article analyzes the effectiveness
of these contests as an extension tool. Mixed results were obtained. In three villages, participation rates in the SWC activities
introduced in the contests were still high even 2 years after project withdrawal. These were all villages where a solid foundation
for sustainable development had been laid before the contests were held. Two years later, most families were still involved
in maintenance of the SWC practices introduced in the contests, and many farmers had started to experiment with different
soil management practices. However, replications of these SWC practices were not widespread, Conservation Leaders did not
continue with their training activities, and the quality of maintenance of the practices was often not satisfactory. In order
to become a more effective extension tool and achieve widespread impact, SWC contests must receive continued support by a
catalyst agency. Moreover, other SWC contests should also be organized in which practices are not predefined. Given that SWC
contests are a low-budget extension tool, local municipalities could become more actively involved. 相似文献