Aquifer Management Zones Based on Simulated Surface-Water Response Functions

Cosgrove, Donna M.; Johnson, Gary S.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9496(2005)131:2(89)

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“…The component of the overall investigation discussed here is focused on the nature of groundwater and surface water exchange along the river and consumptive use by groundwater pumping and evapotranspiration (ET) in Mason Valley, an intensively irrigated agricultural basin adjacent to the Walker River. Past research of conjunctive management of hydrologically connected surface water and groundwater resources has relied on response functions, which have been used in the development of steady‐state management zones (Cosgrove and Johnson, 2005), as well as transient functions capable of estimating both continuous and pulse impacts of groundwater pumping on river resources (Cosgrove and Johnson, 2004). Eigenvalue techniques are also available (Sahuquillo, 1983) and have been successfully applied to confined systems (Anreu and Sahuquillo, 1987) and linearized‐unconfined systems by assuming a time‐invariant transmissivity.…”

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Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada¹

Carroll

Pohll

McGraw

et al. 2010

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Carroll, Rosemary W.H., Greg Pohll, David McGraw, Chris Garner, Anna Knust, Doug Boyle, Tim Minor, Scott Bassett, and Karl Pohlmann, 2010. Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 46(3):554‐573. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00434.x Abstract: An integrated surface water and groundwater model of Mason Valley, Nevada is constructed to replicate the movement of water throughout the different components of the demand side of water resources in the Walker River system. The Mason Valley groundwater surface water model (MVGSM) couples the river/drain network with agricultural demand areas and the groundwater system using MODFLOW, MODFLOW’s streamflow routing package, as well as a surface water linking algorithm developed for the project. The MVGSM is capable of simulating complex feedback mechanisms between the groundwater and surface water system that is not dependent on linearity among the related variables. The spatial scale captures important hydrologic components while the monthly stress periods allow for seasonal evaluation. A simulation spanning an 11‐year record shows the methodology is robust under diverse climatic conditions. The basin‐wide modeling approach predicts a river system generally gaining during the summer irrigation period but losing during winter months and extended periods of drought. River losses to the groundwater system approach 25% of the river’s annual budget. Reducing diversions to hydrologic response units will increase river flows exiting the model domain, but also has the potential to increase losses from the river to groundwater storage.

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Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada¹

Carroll

Pohll

McGraw

et al. 2010

J American Water Resour Assoc

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“…We adopted the methods of Cosgrove and Johnson (2005) and Mulligan and Ahlfeld (2016) and used K-means clustering (Hastie et al 2009) for this purpose. Many techniques and considerations can be used to group wells including proximity to one another, distance to the stream of interest, similar level of impact, property ownership, county zoning regulations, and others.…”

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Depletion Mapping and Constrained Optimization to Support Managing Groundwater Extraction

Fienen¹,

Bradbury

Kniffin

et al. 2017

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Groundwater models often serve as management tools to evaluate competing water uses including ecosystems, irrigated agriculture, industry, municipal supply, and others. Depletion potential mapping-showing the model-calculated potential impacts that wells have on stream baseflow-can form the basis for multiple potential management approaches in an oversubscribed basin. Specific management approaches can include scenarios proposed by stakeholders, systematic changes in well pumping based on depletion potential, and formal constrained optimization, which can be used to quantify the tradeoff between water use and stream baseflow. Variables such as the maximum amount of reduction allowed in each well and various groupings of wells using, for example, K-means clustering considering spatial proximity and depletion potential are considered. These approaches provide a potential starting point and guidance for resource managers and stakeholders to make decisions about groundwater management in a basin, spreading responsibility in different ways. We illustrate these approaches in the Little Plover River basin in central Wisconsin, United States-home to a rich agricultural tradition, with farmland and urban areas both in close proximity to a groundwater-dependent trout stream. Groundwater withdrawals have reduced baseflow supplying the Little Plover River below a legally established minimum. The techniques in this work were developed in response to engaged stakeholders with various interests and goals for the basin. They sought to develop a collaborative management plan at a watershed scale that restores the flow rate in the river in a manner that incorporates principles of shared governance and results in effective and minimally disruptive changes in groundwater extraction practices.

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“…The spatial distribution of pumping effects on different surface‐water bodies has been determined in the Snake River Plain through application of a numerical ground‐water flow model to determine steady state response functions (Cosgrove and Johnson, 2005). Steady state response functions describe the spatial distribution of the effects of aquifer stress (pumping or recharge) on hydraulically connected reaches of the Snake River.…”

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“…A transfer in the other direction would equally benefit flows of the American Falls reach but would diminish flows in the upper reaches of the Snake River. A more detailed description of this application of steady state response functions is provided by Cosgrove and Johnson (2005).…”

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Efficient and Practical Approaches to Ground‐Water Right Transfers Under the Prior Appropriation Doctrine and the Snake River Example¹

Johnson

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Cosgrove³

2008

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Water right transfers are one of the basic means of implementing changes in water use in the highly appropriated water resource systems of the western United States. Many of these systems are governed by the Prior Appropriation Doctrine, which was not originally intended for application to ground‐water pumping and the conjunctive management of ground water and surface water, and thus creates an administrative challenge. That challenge results from the fact that ground‐water pumping can affect all interconnected surface‐water bodies and the effects may be immeasurably small relative to surface water discharge and greatly attenuated in time. Although we may have the ability to calculate the effects of ground‐water pumping and transfers of pumping location on surface‐water bodies, mitigating for all the impacts of each individual transfer is sufficiently inefficient that it impedes the transfer process, frustrates water users, and consequently inhibits economic development. A more holistic approach to ground‐water right transfers, such as a ground‐water accounting or banking scheme, may adequately control transfer third‐party effects while reducing mitigation requirements on individual transfers. Acceptance of an accounting scheme can accelerate the transfer process, and possibly reduce the administrative burden.

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Aquifer Management Zones Based on Simulated Surface-Water Response Functions

Cited by 43 publications

References 8 publications

Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada¹

Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada¹

Depletion Mapping and Constrained Optimization to Support Managing Groundwater Extraction

Efficient and Practical Approaches to Ground‐Water Right Transfers Under the Prior Appropriation Doctrine and the Snake River Example¹

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Aquifer Management Zones Based on Simulated Surface-Water Response Functions

Cited by 43 publications

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Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada1

Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada1

Depletion Mapping and Constrained Optimization to Support Managing Groundwater Extraction

Efficient and Practical Approaches to Ground‐Water Right Transfers Under the Prior Appropriation Doctrine and the Snake River Example1

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Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada¹

Mason Valley Groundwater Model: Linking Surface Water and Groundwater in the Walker River Basin, Nevada¹

Efficient and Practical Approaches to Ground‐Water Right Transfers Under the Prior Appropriation Doctrine and the Snake River Example¹