National Water Management Center

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National Water Management Center
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NWMC

• Established 1995 South Central Regional Water
  Management Center
• National Water Management Center in 1998

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NWMC Functions

• Direct technical assistance to states
• Water resources planning
• Technology transfer and delivery
• Water policy interpretation and Program Support
• Partnering and Joint Ventures

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Provide Assistance to all States and territories

Completed or Ongoing Consultative Assistance
NWMC
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NATIONAL WATERMANAGEMENT CENTER
NRCS
Participating
Internal
Expertise
Organizations
Customers
Agronomy
Ecology
Archaeology
State
Specialists
Civil Engineering
Federal
Conservation Planning
Environmental Engineering
Field Staff
Geohydrology
State
Geomorphology
Reg Tech/Water
Ground Water
Res Teams
Hydrology Hydraulics
Universities
Irrigation Engineering
State/Reg BOD
Water Quality
Watershed Planning Economics
Others
Sci Tech
Consortium
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Water Quality

• Water Quality Issues
• Water Quality Model Support
• NLEAP, SWAT, WEND AnAGNPS, GLEANS

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Ground-Water

• Aquifer Evaluations
• Recharge and
• Surface-water
• Interaction
• Water Quantity
• Water Quality
• Modeling

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Water Management

• Water Conservation
• Project Planning
• Off Stream Storage
• Irrigation System Design
• Drainage System Design
• WM Computer Models
• Core4 Plus WM

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Hydraulics Hydrology and Stream Wetland
Restoration

• Computer Model Support - TR-55, TR-20, SITES,
  HECRAS, UNET
• Hydraulic Modeling
• Stream Restoration Issues
• Geomorphic Approaches to Channel Stabilization
• Regional Curve Development
• Bioengineering

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Cultural Resources

• National Historic Preservation Act
• NWMC assists State Offices in protecting and
  conserving our nations cultural heritage.

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Watershed/Rehabilitation Policy and Program
Support

• PL-566
• PL-534
• Rehabilitation
• Peer Reviews
• Training
• EWP
• FPMS
• GIS Applications

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Watershed/Rehabilitation Policy and Program
Support
AGING WATERSHED INFRASTRUCTURE
Many of the 10,000 NRCS assisted dams are
reaching their life expectance
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Environmental Compliance

• National Environmental Policy Act
• Endangered Species Act

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Environmental Compliance

• Clean Water Act

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OBTAINING NWMC ASSISTANCE

• All NWMC activities are in response to customer
  identified need and/or request. Majority of
  projects based on requests from
• State specialists
• Regional Initiatives
• NHQ Initiatives

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david.heffington_at_ar.usda.gov(501)210-8923http/
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