Development and application of a decision support system for water management investigations in the upper Yakima River, Washington
Date
2008
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U.S. Geological Survey
Abstract
The Yakima River Decision Support System (YRDSS) was designed to quantify and display the consequences of different water management scenarios for a variety of state variables in the upper Yakima River Basin, located in central Washington. The impetus for the YRDSS was the Yakima River Basin Water Storage Feasibility Study, which investigated alternatives for providing additional water in the basin for threatened and endangered fish, irrigated agriculture, and municipal water supply. The additional water supplies would be provided by combinations of water exchanges, pumping stations, and off-channel storage facilities, each of which could affect the operations of the Bureau of Reclamation’s (BOR) five headwaters reservoirs in the basin. The driver for the YRDSS is RiverWare, a systems-operations model used by BOR to calculate reservoir storage, irrigation deliveries, and streamflow at downstream locations resulting from changes in water supply and reservoir operations.
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Open file report as PDF, 307 pages, 6.59 MB
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Technical Report
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Keywords
Resource management, Yakima Basin, Water quality, Habitat
Citation
Bovee, K. D., Waddle, T. J., Talbert, C., Hatten, J. R., & Batt, T. R. (2008). Development and application of a decision support system for water management investigations in the upper Yakima river, Washington (Open-File Report No. 2008–1251) (p. 289). U.S. Geological Survey.