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Main Title Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) v1: User Manual and Case Study Examples.
Author N. Detenbeck ; M. ten Brink ; A. Morrison ; R. Abele ; J. LeClair
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Author Title of a Work
Y. Mohamoud
CORP Author National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab., Narragansett, RI. Atlantic Ecology Div.; Environmental Protection Agency, Athens, GA. Ecosystems Research Div.
Year Published 2013
Report Number EPA/600/R-13/174
Stock Number PB2014-105044
Additional Subjects Watersheds ; Water pollution control ; Case studies ; Cost effectiveness ; Decision support tool ; Documentation ; Jurisdiction ; Linear programming ; Management planning and control ; Optimization ; User manual ; Water resources ; Water supply
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100HU1X.PDF
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NTIS  PB2014-105044 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) is intended to be used as a screening tool as part of an integrated watershed management process such as that described in EPA's watershed planning handbook (EPA 2008).1 The objective of WMOST is to serve as a public-domain, efficient, and user-friendly tool for local water resources managers and planners to screen a wide-range of potential water resources management options across their watershed or jurisdiction for cost-effectiveness as well as environmental and economic sustainability (Zoltay et al 2010). Examples of options that could be evaluated with the tool include projects related to stormwater, water supply, wastewater and water-related resources such as Low-Impact Development (LID) and land conservation. The tool is intended to aid in evaluating the environmental and economic costs, benefits, trade-offs and co-benefits of various management options. In addition, the tool is intended to facilitate the evaluation of low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure as alternative or complementary management options in projects proposed for State Revolving Funds (SRF). WMOST is a screening model that is spatially lumped with a daily or monthly time step. The model considers water flows but does not yet consider water quality. The optimization of management options is solved using linear programming. The target user group for WMOST consists of local water resources managers, including municipal water works superintendents and their consultants. This document includes a user guide and presentation of two case studies as examples of how to apply WMOST. Theoretical documentation is provided in a separate report (EPA/600/R-13/151, PB2014-105043).