General River and Reservoir Modeling Environment

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Truckee RiverWater Accounting Modeling Effort
RiverWare User Meeting June 2003 _at_ Univ. of
Colorado, CADSWES, Boulder CO
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WINNEMUCCA LAKE (dry)
Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation
CALIFORNIA
NEVADA
PYRAMID LAKE
Nixon
Stillwater NWR
Derby Dam
Fernley
Reno/Sparks
TRUCKEE CANAL
Fallon
STAMPEDE
TRUCKEE RIVER
Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation
INDEPENDENCE
Newlands Project
BOCA
LAHONTAN
PROSSER
Truckee
CARSON LAKE
MARTIS
CARSON RIVER
DONNER
Carson City
Tahoe City
LAKE TAHOE
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Lake Tahoe
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Tahoe Dam below Lake Tahoe
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Stampede
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WINNEMUCCA LAKE (dry)
Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation
CALIFORNIA
NEVADA
PYRAMID LAKE
Nixon
Stillwater NWR
Derby Dam
Fernley
Reno/Sparks
TRUCKEE CANAL
Fallon
STAMPEDE
TRUCKEE RIVER
Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation
INDEPENDENCE
Newlands Project
BOCA
LAHONTAN
PROSSER
Truckee
CARSON LAKE
MARTIS
CARSON RIVER
DONNER
Carson City
Tahoe City
LAKE TAHOE
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Truckee Meadows MI
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Truckee Meadows
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Derby Dam
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Pyramid Lake Fish
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Operations

• Current Operations 1935 Truckee River Agreement
• Future Operations Truckee River Operating
  Agreement

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Reservoir Operations (Private)

• Independence Lake
• Storage owned by Sierra Pacific Power Co.
• Released for MI drought relief
• Donner Lake
• Storage owned by Sierra Pacific Power Co. and
  Truckee-Carson Irrigation District
• Released in fall for MI/Irrigation

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Reservoir Operations (Federal)

• Stampede Reservoir
• Cui-ui and Lahontan
• Released for MI cutthroat trout
• Prosser Creek Reservoir
• Uncommitted water (cui-ui) Lahontan cutthroat
  trout
• Released for MI / Irrigation
• Martis Creek Reservoir
• Flood control

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Reservoir Operations
Lake Tahoe Prosser Creek Reservoir Boca
Reservoir

• Lake Tahoe and Boca water
• Released for Floriston Rates (Orr Ditch Decree)
  -- 300-500 cfs at Farad (Stateline)
• Tahoe-Prosser Exchange
• Maintain 50-70 cfs downstream from Lake Tahoe
• Flood control in Prosser and Boca

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Tahoe Prosser Exchange
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Truckee River Operational Priorities

• 1) 9,500 AF Donner 3,000 AF Independence
• 2) Claims 12
• 3) Diversions in California prior to October 28,
  1990 (except Orr Ditch Decree rights Sierra
  Valley Decree)
• 4) 40 cfs by Sierra

• 5) California diversions after Oct 28, 1990
• 6) Orr Ditch rights
• 7) Floriston rates
• 8) 25,000 AF Boca
• 9) Claim 3

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Truckee River Operational Priorities

• 10) 15,850 AF Boca
• 11) 14,500 AF Independence
• 12)126,000 AF Stampede
• 13) 30,000 AF Prosser
• 14) Tribes unappropriated water

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COLORED WATER VIA ACCOUNTS
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STORAGE ACCOUNTS
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TROA (types of water)

• Floriston Rate Water
• Project Water
• POSW Water
• Imported Water
• Additional California Environmental Credit Water
• California Environmental Credit Water
• California MI Credit Water
• Fernley Municipal Credit Water

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TROA (types of water)

• Fish Credit Water
• Fish Water
• Joint Program Fish Credit Water
• Newlands Project Credit Water
• Other Credit Water
• Power Company Emergency Credit Water
• Power Company MI Credit Water (Firm and Non-Firm
  MI)
• Project Water in Another Reservoir
• Water Quality Credit Water

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TROA Credit Water Priorities

• 1. Impoundment of California MI Credit Water
  and California Environmental Credit Water in Lake
  Tahoe
• 2. Operations involving Power Company MI Credit
  Water, Fish Credit Water, Joint Program Fish
  Credit Water, and certain operations of Fish
  Water (see related section below)
• 3. Operations, other than impoundment in Lake
  Tahoe, involving California MI Credit Water and
  California Environmental Credit Water
• 4. Operations involving Water Quality Credit
  Water or Fernley Municipal Credit Water
• 5. Operations involving Project Water in Another
  Reservoir, including Project Water that becomes
  Project Water in Another Reservoir
• 6. Impoundment of Additional California
  Environmental Credit Water
• 7. Operations involving Newlands Project Credit
  Water
• 8. Operations, other than impoundment of
  Additional California Environmental Credit Water,
  involving Other Credit Water and Additional
  California Environmental Credit Water

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TROA Water Spill Order

• 1. Other Credit Water and Additional California
  Environmental Credit Water
• 2. Newlands Project Credit Water
• 3. Project Water in Another Reservoir
• 4. Water Quality Credit Water and Fernley
  Municipal Credit Water
• 5. California Environmental Credit Water
• 6. California MI Credit Water
• 7. Fish Credit Water, Joint Program Fish Credit
  Water, and Non-Firm MI Credit Water
• 8. Project Waters and Private Waters from their
  own reservoirs

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Sources For Stampede Storage Categories With TROA
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• NOTWITHSTANDING

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Potential TROA Signatories

• U.S Department of the Interior
• State of California
• State of Nevada
• Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe
• Sierra Pacific Power Co.
• Fallon Paute-Shoshone Tribes
• Truckee-Carson Irrigation District

• Town of Fernley
• Churchill County
• Washoe County
• City of Sparks
• Washoe County Water Conservation District
• City of Reno
• Carson-Truckee Water Conservancy District

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--- Data Centered DSS ---
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DIADvisor Farad
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--- Data Centered DSS ---
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NRCS APR 1 FORECASTS - KAF

• YEAR ACTUAL FORECST ERR
• 1990 27.4 30 - 9
• 1991 50.6 50 1
• 1992 17.5 38 - 117
• 1993 258.9 195 25
• 1994 32.5 50 - 54
• 1995 469.0 260 45
• 1996 304.1 210 31
• 1997 249.2 310 - 24
• 1998 314.2 270 14
• 1999 284.0 235 17

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Upper Truckee Vicinity
PRMS Basin delineation for Upper Truckee Basin
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AUTOMATED PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING THE GIS
WEASEL
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USGS Hydrologic Response Unit
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MMS ESP Tool
All Computed Traces using 1975 - 1998
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MMS ESP Tool
Operator selected 10, 50, and 90 probability of
exceedance
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ESP Forecasts
La Niña Years
ENSO Neutral
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--- Data Centered DSS ---
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Daily Natural Flow Data

• Bad data Jorgeson, 2002

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Data Storage System (HEC-DSS)

• Corps of Engineers Database
• Excellent for time series data
• Temporary data base until HDB in place
• Poor for storing table data, metadata

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Hydrologic Data Base (HDB)Current Research and
Development

• Database of Record
• store base data and derive all other data
• track all changes of data
• able to reproduce data that decisions were made
  from
• consistent view of the historical, current and
  future state of the system
• Corporate HDB
• keeping each database in sync, redundancy
• HDB Web Access

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--- Data Centered DSS ---
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RiverWare Models

• Accounting
• Forecasting
• Scheduling
• Planning

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Water Quality Settlement Agreement
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Outline of approach
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Scenarios
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Climate forecast

• Modify the target temperature based on
• Volume of WQCW available
• Climate forecast of above normal temperatures

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Results (cont.)
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Violations and WQCW released (1988-1994)
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Water Quality Modeling

• Utilize existing basin-specific water quality
  models
• Eventually provide real-time decisions
• Operate interactively with RiverWare
• Give example of integration between RW and other
  models
• Create similarity to WaRSMP couterpart MMS

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WQ Modeling Coming Soon
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COLORED WATER VIA ACCOUNTS
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Cui-ui