Development and application of a decision support system for water management investigations in the upper Yakima River, Washington

Date

2008

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Publisher

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.

Description

Open file report as PDF, 307 pages, 6.59 MB

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.

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