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Tmdls: Statistical Correlations Or Mechanistic Modeling?, Scott A. Wells, Thomas M. Cole

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

In developing TMDL waste-load allocations for the Snake River-Reservoir system in Western Idaho and Eastern Oregon, determinations of the assimilative capacity of the system and the impact of pollutant reduction strategies has been performed using both a statistical-correlation approach and a mechanistic modeling approach. The system included the Lower Snake River, Brownlee Reservoir, Oxbow Reservoir, and Hells Canyon Reservoir with the focus was on Brownlee Reservoir.

The statistical approach used on Brownlee Reservoir divided the system into riverine and lacustrine zones. Field data were then averaged over season and location to provide statistical correlations, such as between total phosphorus (TP) …

Field Guide To The Geology Of The Harlan County Lake Area, Harlan County, Nebraska, With A History Of Events Leading To Construction Of Harlan County Dam, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., Duane R. Mohlman, R. George Corner, F. Edwin Harvey, K. J. Warren, Scott Summerside, Roger K. Pabian, Duane A. Eversoll

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The year 2002 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of completion of the Harlan County Dam and Multi-Purpose Reservoir. This seems a good time to write about the history of and reasons for building the dam, the effects of the dam and reservoir on the Republican River valley, and the geologic features seen along the shores of the lake and areas nearby. As many junior authors helped produced this educational circular, they are listed in the table of contents. All other sections were written by the senior author.

Includes July 2016 update: Addendum of photographs showing fault traces on drought-exposed lake …

Coalbed Methane Development In Wyoming’S Powder River Basin, Diana Hulme

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

21 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

Contains endnotes.

Powder River Basin Coalbed Methane Financial Model (Prb-Cbm-Fm), W. Thomas Goerold

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

12 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains references.

Overview Of Cbm Issues In The San Juan Basin, Catherine Cullicott

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

3 pages (includes some color illustrations and maps).

Impacts Of Cbm Development On Communities, Gwen Lachelt

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

2 pages.

Agenda: Coalbed Methane Development In The Intermountain West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

306 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm

"July 2002"--Cover

Proceedings of a conference held April 4-5, 2002

Listed as no. 28 in the Research Report Series on the NRLC Recent Publications list

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Coalbed methane development in the Intermountain West : a primer / Gary Bryner -- Coalbed methane development in the Intermountain West : case studies. Coalbed methane in the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico / Catherine Cullicott, Carolyn Dunmire, Jerry Brown, Chris Calwell ; Coalbed methane development in Wyoming's Powder River Basin / Diana Hulme -- Keynote address / Rebecca Watson …

The Hydrology Of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs And The Interplay Of Gas, Water, And Coal In Cbm Production, Leslie Nogaret

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

7 pages (includes color illustrations and map).

Best Cbm D[R]Illing, Completion, Production, Technologies, And Management Practices, Dennis Carlton

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

3 pages.

Cbm Development And Water Issues, Dave Brown

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

7 pages (includes color illustrations).

Coalbed Methane In The Rocky Mountain Region: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, Matthew R. Silverman

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

8 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

Contains references.

Developing Cbm In The Powder River Basin, William T. Brown, Jr.

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

5 pages (includes some color illustrations and maps).

An Overview Of Cbm Exploration And Production, Steve De Albuquerque

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

9 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

Waste Or Wasted? Rethinking The Regulation Of Coalbed Methane Byproduct Water In The Rocky Mountains: A Comparative Analysis Of Approaches To Cbm Produced Water Quantity Legal Issues In Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana And Wyoming, Thomas F. Darin

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

30 pages.

Contains 13 pages of references.

Cbm Development On The Southern Ute Reservation, Bob Zahradnik

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

6 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

The Geology And Production Characteristics Of The Powder River And Other Cbm Basins In Wyoming, Lance Cook

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

7 pages (includes some color illustrations and maps).

A Review Of Cbm Development In The Powder River And Other Wyoming Basins, Don Likwarz

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

6 pages (includes illustrations).

Cbm Water Management: Challenges, Solutions, And Opportunities, Mike Day

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

15 pages (includes color illustrations and maps).

Cbm Development, Ranching, And Agriculture, Nancy Sorenson, Jill Morrison

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

5 pages.

Upper Spokane River Model: Model Calibration, 1991 And 2000, Chris Berger, Robert Leslie Annear, Scott A. Wells

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Washington Department of Ecology is interested in a water quality model for the Upper Spokane River system for use in developing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs). The goals of this modeling effort are to:

• Gather data to construct a computer simulation model of the Spokane River system including Long Lake Reservoir and the pools behind Nine Mile dam, Upper Falls dam and Upriver dam. • Ensure that the model accurately represents the system hydrodynamics and water quality (flow, temperature, dissolved oxygen and nutrient dynamics)

This report evaluates the model calibration and discusses issues relative to that calibration effort. …

Lower Willamette River Model: Model Calibration, Chris Berger, Robert Leslie Annear, Scott A. Wells

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Water Environment Services of Clackamas County is in the process of planning upgrades on several of its wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) which discharge into the Lower Willamette River. The goals of the modeling effort were to:

• Gather data to construct a computer simulation model of the Lower Willamette River system in order to evaluate the impact of the WWTP discharges on water quality

• Ensure that the model accurately represents the system physics and chemistry (flow, temperature, dissolved oxygen and nutrient dynamics) by model calibration

• Use the model to evaluate how to meet various future discharge scenarios for …

Upper Spokane River Model: Boundary Conditions And Model Setup, 1991 And 2000, Robert Leslie Annear, Chris Berger, Scott A. Wells

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Washington Department of Ecology is interested in a water quality model for the Upper Spokane River system for use in developing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs). The goals of this modeling effort are to:

• Gather data to construct a computer simulation model of the Spokane River system including Long Lake Reservoir and the pools behind Nine Mile dam, Upper Falls dam and Upriver dam

• Ensure that the model accurately represents the system hydrodynamics and water quality (flow, temperature, dissolved oxygen and nutrient dynamics)

A hydrodynamic and water quality model, CE-QUAL-W2 Version 3 (Wells, 1997), is being applied …

Lower Willamette River Model: Boundary Conditions And Model Setup, Herman G. Rodriguez, Robert Leslie Annear, Scott A. Wells, Chris Berger

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Water Environment Services of Clackamas County is in the process of planning upgrades on several of its sewage treatment plants which discharge into the Lower Willamette River. The goals of the modeling effort are to:

• Gather data to construct a computer simulation model of the Lower Willamette River system including part of the Lower Columbia River and the Willamette River above the Oregon City Falls; Because of the tidal influence in the Lower Willamette River, portions of the Columbia River that might affect the Lower Willamette River water quality were also modeled. Also, a section of the Willamette River …

Alternative Principal Components Regression Procedures For Dendrohydrologic Reconstructions, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Thomas C. Piechota, John A. Dracup

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Faculty Research

Streamflow reconstruction using tree ring information (dendrohydrology) has traditionally used principal components analysis (PCA) and stepwise regression to form a transfer function. However, PCA has several procedural choices that may result in very different reconstructions. This study assesses the different procedures in PCA-based regression and suggests alternative procedures for selection of variables and principal components. Cross-validation statistics are presented as an alternative for independently testing and identifying the optimal model. The objective is to use these statistics as a measure of the model's performance to find a conceptually acceptable model with a low prediction error and the fewest number of …

Dynamic Fluvial Systems And Gravel Progradation In The Himalayan Foreland, Nicholas Brozovic, Douglas W. Burbank

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Although the large-scale stratigraphy of many terrestrial foreland basins is punctuated by major episodes of gravel progradation, the relationships of such facies to hinterland tectonism and climate change are often unclear. Structural reentrants provide windows into older and more proximal parts of the foreland than are usually exposed, and thus provide key insights to earlier phases of foreland evolution. Our magnetostratigraphic studies show that, although the major lithofacies preserved within the Himachal Pradesh structural reentrant in northwestern India resemble Neogene facies in Pakistan, they have a much greater temporal and spatial variability. From 11.5 to 7 Ma, major facies boundaries …

The River Association Approach To Privatization Of Federal Hydro Projects, Michael K. Block

Dams: Water and Power in the New West (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

15 pages.

Greener And More Equitable: A Vision For Dams And Other Western Water Issues, Bruce C. Driver

Dams: Water and Power in the New West (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

10 pages.

Contains 1 page of references.

The Future Of Western Water Developments, John Keys

Dams: Water and Power in the New West (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

9 pages.

River Management In The Twenty-First Century: The Vision Thing, A. Dan Tarlock

Dams: Water and Power in the New West (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

12 pages.

Contains references.

Of Dams And Salmon In The Columbia/Snake Basin: Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?, Don B. Miller

Dams: Water and Power in the New West (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

106 pages (includes illustrations and maps).

Contains 4 pages of references.