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This report presents a hydro-economic modeling methodology for conducting benefit-cost analysis of water management responses to climate change. Three hydro-economic modeling scenarios are developed. The first estimates the affects of projected...
2013-07-16
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An understanding of the relationship of spring discharge to aquifer water level is fundamental to modeling and managing the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer. Previous work has suggested that these relationships appear nearly linear but frequently...
2005-01-21
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Hydro-economic models represent the hydrologic, engineering, environmental and economic aspects of basin scale water resource systems in an integrated framework that accounts for the economic value of water services generated. Hydro-economic...
2014-10-07
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Conventional, economics-based water planning approaches often fail to adequately evaluate the economic efficacy of water projects by ignoring the dynamic relationship that exists between water supply and demand. More specifically, under the...
2014-10-15
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Thirty-one municipal water providers deliver groundwater to 107,660 people over and adjoining the Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer (RPA) in northern Idaho. In 2014, the Idaho Legislature appropriated $500,000 to the Idaho Water Resources Board (IWRB) “to...
2014-12-17
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Mud Lake, a natural closed basin in eastern Idaho, is used as a reservoir for storage of irrigation water. Mud Lake has been modified by the construction of dikes and levies to provide storage of approximately 64,200 acre feet. The water supply is...
1988-11-15
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The Idaho INEL Oversight Program, in association with the University of Idaho, Idaho Geological Survey, Boise State University, and Idaho State University, developed a research program to determine the hydraulic properties of the Snake River Plain...
1996-01-01
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During calibration of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Model Version 1.1 (ESPAM1.1), a series of Design Documents were produced to document data sources, conceptual model decisions and calculation methods. These documents served two important...
2010-07-01
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During calibration of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Model Version 1.1 (ESPAM1.1), a series of Design Documents were produced to document data sources, conceptual model decisions and calculation methods. These documents served two important...
2010-11-01
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The Rathdrum Prairie Integrated Water Resource Management plan is a living document to be revisited,
reviewed and updated as new information becomes available and as community water resource needs and objectives change. Integrated Water Resource...
2016-04-27
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This report presents an analysis of the year-to-year and day-today variation of low-flow stream discharge used in small-scale hydroelectric power projects. Primary use was made of flow duration procedures. Past streamflow gaging records were used...
1984-05-01
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This report is a hydrologic and legal assessment of conjunctive management of surface and ground water with emphasis on the water resources of the upper Snake River Basin in Idaho. The first portion of the report is the development of a hydrologic...
1984-05-01
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A study was done to analyze the daily water flow data from two large irrigation districts located in the Upper Snake River region of southeastern Idaho and to develop a methodology for predicting daily water diversions. Data collected during the...
1981-09-01
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This report presents and appraisal of the value and possibility of utilizing offstream reservoirs as water and related land resource developments. It follows a Phase I effort that merely inventoried potential sites in the Upper Snake River Basin...
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This report presents the results of a study of ground water flow systems near the Caribou Range in southeastern Idaho with a special emphasis on geothermal flow systems. The study analyzed thermal and nonthermal flow systems based upon...
1981-12-01
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This document serves as an appendix to ""A preliminary appraisal of offstream reservoir sites for meeting water storage requirements in the Upper Snake River Basin"" (Warnick, Kirkland, Ames, Filler, 1981). It should be noted that all values given...
1981-02-01
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Laboratory experiments were conducted to ascertain the partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) which adversely affected growth of rainbow trout. These experiments, and other data reported previously, indicate that pO2's greater than 90mmHg are necessary...
1981-02-01
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The objectives of this study were to use survey methods to document changes in cropping patterns, irrigation systems, and water management strategies caused by the 1977 drought; to document the way institutions such as water delivery organizations...
1977-05-01
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In order to obtain well defined causes of earth dam failures, statistical analysis of past earth dam failures was made. A comprehensive list of earth dam failures was collected and listed after Middlebrooks (1953) and others. The results of this...
1981-01-01
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During the fall and winter 1979-1980 tests were conducted in a section of the Middle Snake River within Hells Canyon to determine the effects of hydroelectric power peaking on fall chinook salmon (Onchorhycus tshawytscha) embryo incubation and fry...
1981-03-01
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Seven major soil series of irrigated agricultural land of southeastern Idaho were evaluated to obtain soil water intake rates. They range in texture from silt loam to gravely loam. Three crops (hay, grain and potatoes) were selected for this...
1981-03-01
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This guide presents a convenient tabular compilation of data on average annual precipitation, average annual flow, planimetric area, river mile, reach outflow elevation and area runoff coefficient for about 600 small drainage basins in the State...
1981-06-01
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From 1977-1979 field and laboratory tests were conducted to determine the impacts of streamflow reduction over redds on salmonid embryo incubation and fry quality. Laboratory tests were conducted in artificial stream channels located at the Hayden...
1981-03-01
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We examined the response of aquatic insects and juvenile rainbow-steelhead trout to flow related changes in habitat and assessed the predictive reliability of three hydraulic simulation models currently used in making instream flow...
1981-09-01
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The planning models and procedures used by operational agencies in the Upper Snake and Boise River basins in Idaho were investigated. [...] The models and procedures are used to predict runoff from snow pack data, to predict natural stream flows...
1981-08-01
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