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Sustainable Water Management Using Environmental Flows In The Connecticut River, Alec Bernstein
Sustainable Water Management Using Environmental Flows In The Connecticut River, Alec Bernstein
Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Masters Projects
There is significant evidence demonstrating that altering river flows downstream of impoundments harms native aquatic ecosystems and decreases the ability of native species to strive and survive. Innovative water management practices are needed to improve the health of native aquatic species and their surrounding ecosystems while maintaining the benefits from historic operating policies at these facilities. The impacts of individual reservoir operations on ecosystem health are often masked by the compounding influence of multiple upstream impoundments, making it difficult to analyze an individual facility’s impact within the larger system. This study presents an optimization model that investigates the value of …
Using Ce-Qual-W2 To Model A Contaminant Spill Into The Wachusett Reservoir, Lillian M. Clark
Using Ce-Qual-W2 To Model A Contaminant Spill Into The Wachusett Reservoir, Lillian M. Clark
Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Masters Projects
This research was done to understand the potential fate and transport of a contaminant spill into the Wachusett Reservoir utilizing the model CE-QUAL-W2 V3.6. The Wachusett Reservoir, located in central Massachusetts, is the main water supply for the Boston, MA metropolitan area. The reservoir has a capacity of approximately 65 billion gallons and receives about half of its total inflow from the Quabbin Reservoir, which has a capacity of 412 billion gallons. Water is transferred from the Quabbin Reservoir to the western end of the Wachusett Reservoir intermittently through the Quabbin Aqueduct typically from June through November to meet higher …