WEAP Applications - California Water and Environmental Modeling

Mohammad Rayej, Ph.D., P.E.
Senior Engineer, W.R.
California Dept. of Water Resources
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Water Evaluation And Planning Model
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Developed by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in
1988
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Integrated water Supply-Demand model
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Supply allocation driven by water demand priorities,
supply preferences and system constraints
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Conservation of mass and LP optimization solver to
maximize demand coverage subject to constraints
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Highly scale-able in space & time steps
◦ City, Province, Region, Country
◦ Day, week, month, Year
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River hydraulics
Hydrologic basins & catchments
Rainfall-Runoff process
Snowpack accumulation & snowmelt (Climate
Change)
Irrigation process (Urban landscape & Ag)
Groundwater aquifers (Natural & Artificial
Recharge)
Dams & Reservoir operations
Surface-Groundwater Interaction (Conjunctive Use)
Hydropower generation
Water quality and pollution (water temp, DO, BOD,
TDS, First-Order decay)
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Current and future water supply and demand
conditions ; a time-step model.
Very powerful in building future water
scenarios under different population
growth, socio_economic and climate change
scenarios.
Explores water management strategies
(demand reduction, supply augmentation,
pollution control).
Long term water planning tool for water
managers and governments.
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WEAP- HR
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10 Hydrologic Regions
Monthly Time Step
Future urban (indoor, outdoor) and Ag demand
Under urban growths and climate change scenarios
WEAP- PA
Central Valley planning area scale
Sacramento River, San Joaquin, Tulare Lake
Monthly Time step
Future water supply and demand conditions
Evaluate management strategies (supply and demand
options)
◦ Assess system reliabilities and vulnerabilities
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1- Rainfall-Runoff “Catchment” Method (Green dots !!!)
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Approach:
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Input Parameters:
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Uses so called “2-bucket” approach to perform soil moisture mass
balance in the root zone and deep percolation over time
Physically based; includes soil, plant and climate and irrigation
parameters
Computes crop ET, surface runoff, subsurface lateral flow to surface
stream, deep percolation to GW.
Very suitable for climate change scenarios
Plant (land use area, Kc, leaf area index to control surface runoff)
Soil (soil moisture capacity, soil hydraulic conductivity, initial moisture
content)
Climate (precip, temp, RH, wind speed, melting point and freezing point
temperature for snowmelt runoff and snowpack accumulation)
Irrigation (low and high threshold of soil moisture to start or stop
irrigation)
Output:
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Demand volume (Acre-ft)
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Dynamically linked to USGS 3-D GW Model
(MODFLOW) and MODPATH (GW Particle
Tracking)
◦ Every time step
◦ Surface-GW Interactions
 WEAP gives surface flow – MODFLOW returns GW flow
◦ Multiple pumping sites and interactions
◦ 3-D GW water level surface
◦ Flow path of pollutants and tracers
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WEAP project layout, schematics, and results
saved (.kmz file), exported to Google Earth
WEAP results for each supply and demand
sites can be viewed on Google Earth
The .kmz file can be sent globally via internet
to clients and colleagues for viewing on
Google Earth without any need for knowledge
of WEAP or the software itself.
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WEAP was successfully applied as an
integrated water resources model for
California Water Plan.
Current and future water supply and demand
were quantified under multiple urban growth
and climate change scenarios
Several management strategies on supply and
demand were evaluated to assess system
vulnerabilities as part Robust Decision
Making (RDM)