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State Water Board presents new watershed supply‑and‑demand models, plans public review and dashboards
Summary
Staff described an 18‑watershed modeling effort, monthly forecasts, public dashboards and upcoming draft model reports to help local planners and inform future board actions during drought.
Division of Water Rights staff told the State Water Resources Control Board on Sept. 3 that a multi‑year program is developing hydrologic supply‑and‑demand models and public dashboards for 18 watersheds to support local planning and future board decision making. Philip Dutton, program manager for the Supply and Demand Assessment (SDA) program, said the effort grew from the Russian River drought response and that the board has contracted Paradigm Environmental to develop models under a $15,000,000 contract.
Dutton and senior engineer Mohammad Sarabi explained that the models use the LSPC (Loading Simulation Program in C++) framework and rely on meteorological inputs, streamgage flow records, cleaned annual…
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