Managing Water in River and Reservoir Systems : Water Resources, Institutional Practices, and Constructed Infrastructure in Texas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911016147803321
• Autore: Wurbs Ralph A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Reston : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 0-7844-8539-9; 0-7844-8538-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Collana: ASCE Press Series
• Disciplina: 628.1/1209764
• Soggetti: Water-supply - Texas - Management; Watershed management - Texas; Reservoirs - Texas - Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Managing Water in River and Reservoir Systems -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Unit Conversions -- Chapter 1: Water Resources Management in Texas -- Water Management throughout Texas and the United States -- Water Management Community -- US Congress and Texas Legislature -- International and Interstate Water Managers -- Federal Water Agencies -- State Agencies -- Regional and Local Governmental and Private Entities -- Water Use in Texas -- Water Resources of Texas -- Hydroclimate of Texas -- Groundwater and Surface Water -- River Basins and Streamflow -- Dams and Reservoirs -- Conservation and Flood Control Storage Capacity -- Major Reservoirs -- Largest Reservoirs -- Oldest and Newest Reservoirs -- Chapter 2: Institutional Framework for River and Reservoir System Water Management -- Institutional Responsibilities and Capabilities -- Reservoir Project Developers, Owners, and Managers -- Inventory of Existing Major Reservoirs -- Flood Control Storage in Federal Reservoirs -- Water Supply Storage -- Hydroelectric Energy -- Recreation at Reservoir Projects -- Corps of Engineers Civil Works Program -- USACE Districts -- Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit ; Program -- USACE Planning and Development Process -- Programs and Responsibilities of Other Federal Water Agencies -- US Bureau of Reclamation -- Natural Resource Conservation Service -- US Geological Survey -- National Weather Service -- US Fish and Wildlife Service -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Department of Energy Agencies -- Federal Emergency Management Agency -- Strategies for Reducing Flood Damages -- Managing Susceptibility to Flood Damages -- Economic Feasibility of Federal Flood Control Projects -- Federal and State Dam Safety Programs -- Past Dam Failures Nationwide -- Dam Safety Programs.; Programs and Responsibilities of State Water Agencies -- Water Resources Planning -- Water Allocation in the United States -- Texas Water Rights System -- Environmental Flow Standards -- Water Districts and River Authorities -- Cities and Towns -- Water Supply and Sanitation -- Stormwater Management and Floodplain Management -- Consulting Firms and Construction Contractors -- Universities and Professional Organizations -- Other Contributors to Water Management -- Interstate Reservoirs -- Lakes Texoma and Toledo Bend on State Borders -- Caddo Lake on the Texas and Louisiana Border -- Interstate River Compacts -- Rio Grande Compact -- Pecos River Compact -- Canadian River Compact -- Red River Compact -- Sabine River Compact -- International Rio Grande -- Water Allocation -- International Amistad and Falcon Reservoirs -- Chapter 3: Reservoir and River System Operations -- Dams and Associated Facilities -- Reservoir Pools -- Maximum Design Water Surface -- Modifying Reservoir Operations -- Storage Reallocations -- Storage Triggers Activating Operating Rules -- Flood Control Operations -- Operations Based on Downstream Flow Rates -- Operations Based on Reservoir Inflows and Storage Levels -- Conservation Storage Operations -- Multiple-Purpose and Multiple-User Operations -- Multiple-Reservoir System Operations -- Water Rights System Allocation of Storage and Diversions -- International Amistad and Falcon Reservoirs on the Rio Grande -- All Other Major Reservoirs and Rivers in Texas -- Environmental Flow Standards -- Process for Establishing Environmental Flow Standards -- Structure of Environmental Flow Standards -- Erosion and Sedimentation -- Reservoir Sedimentation -- Streambank and Reservoir Shoreline Erosion -- Reservoir Water Quality -- Eutrophication -- Reservoir Stratification -- Salinity -- Chapter 4: Computer Databases and Modeling Systems.; National Water Information System -- National Inventory of Dams -- Generalized Simulation Modeling Systems -- USACE Hydrologic Engineering Center Modeling Systems -- USACE Fort Worth District Reservoir Information -- TWDB Databases and Planning Reports -- TCEQ Water Rights Viewer -- Water Availability Modeling System -- Water Rights Analysis Package Modeling System -- Generalized WRAP with Texas WAM Datasets -- Simulations and Statistical Analyses of Simulation Results -- Simulation Modes -- Chapter 5: River System Hydrology -- Hydrologic Aspects of Texas Weather and Climate -- Texas Weather and Climate -- Floods and Droughts -- Multiple-Year Cycles -- Long-Term Climate Change Associated with Global Warming -- Precipitation and Reservoir Evaporation Databases -- Analyses of the Monthly and Annual Precipitation and Evaporation Data -- Variability and Stationarity -- Precipitation -- Reservoir Surface Evaporation -- Observed Historical River Flows -- Flow Characteristics of Rivers in Arid West Texas -- River Flows in Central and East Texas -- River Flows for Natural Undeveloped Conditions -- Illustrative Site in Central Texas -- Natural Flow at River Basin Outlets -- Connections between Surface and Groundwater -- Investigations of Interactions ; between Surface and Groundwater -- TWDB Groundwater Availability Models -- Natural Salinity in the Permian Basin Region -- Chapter 6: River/Reservoir System Development -- Dams and Reservoirs -- Inventories of Dams and Reservoirs -- Reservoir Storage Pools -- Volumes of Water Stored in Large Reservoirs -- TWDB Database -- Historical Daily Storage in Selected Reservoirs -- Summations of Historical Daily Storage in Selected River Basins -- Summations of Daily Storage in 122 Major Reservoirs -- Reservoir Storage Contents as a Drought Index -- Storage Contents during 26 Years of Nearly Constant Capacity.; Reservoir Storage Volumes during Droughts -- General Observations -- Partially Understood Recent and Unknown Future Conditions -- Flood Control Storage -- Thirty-Six Flood Control Reservoirs -- Peak Flood Levels -- Storage Reallocations -- Storage of Flood Waters in Conservation Pools -- Ungated Flood-Retarding Dams and Flood Detention Facilities -- Authorized Conservation Storage and Diversions -- Water Use and Reuse -- Reservoir Surface Evaporation -- Water Availability and Supply Reliability -- Reliability Assessment -- Water Supply Capabilities -- Environmental Flow Standards -- WRAP/WAM Modeling System -- Application of the Modeling System -- Streamflow Quantities -- Probabilistic Expressions of Likelihood, Reliability, or Frequency -- Effects of Water Development on River Flows -- Chapter 7: Water Management in Each River Basin -- River Basins and Reservoirs -- Major Reservoirs -- Water Rights -- Simulated Reservoir Storage -- Brazos River Basin -- Dams and Reservoirs -- Natural Salt Pollution -- System Operations -- Trinity River Basin -- Dams and Reservoirs -- Flood Control Levees and Channel Improvements -- San Jacinto River Basin -- Houston Ship Channel -- Water Supply and Land Subsidence -- Flood Control -- Colorado River Basin -- Reservoir Storage -- Upper Colorado River Basin -- Lower Colorado River Basin -- Neches River Basin -- Sabine River Basin -- Cypress Creek Basin -- Sulphur River Basin -- Red River Basin -- Dams and Reservoirs -- Natural Salt Pollution Control -- Canadian River Basin -- Guadalupe and San Antonio River Basin -- San Antonio River Basin -- Guadalupe River Basin -- Lavaca River Basin -- Nueces River Basin -- Reservoirs in the Nueces River Basin -- Groundwater Recharge in the Nueces River Basin -- Interbasin Water Transport -- Possible Future Seawater Desalination -- Coastal Basins -- Rio Grande Basin.; Chapter 8: Synthesis, Elaboration, Summary, and Conclusions -- Texas Paradigm for Comprehensive Water Management -- River Basins of Texas -- River System Hydrology -- Hydrologic Variability -- Hydrologic Stationarity -- Climate Change Uncertainties -- Surface Water and Groundwater Connections -- Naturalized and Simulated Regulated Flows as a Percent of Precipitation -- Reservoir Storage as a Drought Index -- Dams, Reservoirs, and Appurtenant Facilities -- Small to Very Large Reservoirs -- Project Owners and Purposes -- Reservoir System Operations -- Dam Safety and Rehabilitation -- Salinity Constraints -- Federal Roles -- Navigation, Flood Control, and Multipurpose Water Development -- Environmental Protection -- State Agency Planning and Water Allocation -- Statewide and Regional Planning -- Water Allocation -- Environmental Flow Standards -- Water Availability Modeling -- Integrated Water Resources Management -- Water Management Community -- Water Conservation -- Flood Risk Mitigation -- Appendix A: Major Reservoirs Listed by River Basin -- Appendix B: Information for Major Reservoirs -- Index -- About-the-author.
• Sommario/riassunto: Author Ralph A. Wurbs provides an overview of effective river and reservoir system water management, discussing the collaborative ; endeavors of international, federal, interstate, state, river basin, and local agencies, private sector enterprises, and the water management community, using the state of Texas as a case study.