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Report: Screening Tool for Guiding Short-Term Groundwater Curtailment during Water Scarcity
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This report describes a spreadsheet based screening tool to support statutory decision makers and regional water managers in guiding groundwater curtailment and data collection activities.
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Author: Rathfelder, K.; Baye, A.;
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Date Published: Aug 2016
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Report ID: 50851
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Audience: Government and Public
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This report describes a spreadsheet based screening tool to support statutory decision makers and regional water managers for guiding groundwater curtailment and data collection activities. The screening tool is intended as a support tool that the decision maker may want to consider as part of their toolkit during times of scarcity. The screening tool does not hinder the decision maker from the option of curtailing all groundwater users in a particular area during times of scarcity.
The screening tool calculates a setback distance from a stream wherein the curtailment of groundwater users is most likely to have a positive influence on streamflow recovery during a specified short-term curtailment period. This setback distance is referred to as a curtailment envelope. The spreadsheet calculates the curtailment envelope from the user specified pumping rates, distance between the well and the stream, and the aquifer hydraulic properties. The calculations are based on a number of simplifying assumptions about the aquifer-stream system.
The screening tool can be used to help prioritize drought planning, data collection efforts, and curtailment evaluation to those wells within the curtailment envelope, while committing less resources to wells that are outside of the envelope.
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Region - Okanagan |
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Water Information - Groundwater |
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