Title: Development of a Management Tool for the Optimization of Integrated Surface Water and Groundwater Resources
Abstract: As populations grow and demand on water resources for urban use increases, effective integrated management to maintain sustainable water supplies becomes essential. In many regions, such as South Florida, available potable water supplies are limited by the effects ground and surface water drawdown may have on other legal users and/or environmental resources such as wetlands or lakes. This paper describes a management model that combines the advantages of nonlinear, distributed parameter groundwater flow simulation modeling (S) with linear programming optimization (O) in order to optimize water supply withdrawals. The model includes an optimization matrix that takes about 10 seconds per scenario to run using common spreadsheet software. To create this matrix, several simulations are run to develop a relationship between the hydraulic stresses and responses at predetermined constraint locations. This model was applied in a case study seeking ways to meet present as well as future needs of a region in South Florida, while taking into account the limitations imposed from other legal users and environmental resources. The end result was a simple resource management tool for surface water and groundwater optimization.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-05-10
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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