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Robust Decision-Making Tools
Citation:
Detenbeck, N., M. Ten Brink, A. Le, K. Munson, S. Ennett, H. Parker, I. Morin, AND C. Weaver. Robust Decision-Making Tools. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2024.
Impact/Purpose:
The software programs and instruction manual for WMOST Climate Automation Programs (WCAP) allow users to conduct integrated assessments of the best combination of management practices in both urban and agricultural landscapes to meet water quantity and water quality goals under current and future climate scenarios. Previously users were able to conduct these assessments for agricultural landscapes alone using SWAT batch processing with HCAM-R or for urban landscapes alone using HCAM. Now optimizations can be conducted for combinations of urban and agricultural BMPs.
Description:
EPA has previously published the Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) to allow stakeholders to identify the most cost-effective integrated strategies to meet water quantity and water quality goals. Together, this new suite of ancillary software tools will facilitate the application of EPA’s Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) to robust decision-making processes to develop strategies for adaptive water management under climate change. The Hydrologic Comparison Assessment Module (HCAM) was written in C++ to work in conjunction with WMOSTv3.1 to automate evaluation of effectiveness of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) via EPA’s Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) under multiple climate scenarios. HCAM-R is being developed in R to automate running SWAT models to evaluate effectiveness of agricultural conservation practices (e.g., no till, contour plowing, filter strips) under multiple climate scenarios. Both of these tools provide inputs to WMOSTv3.1. The final tool, CAM-WRAP, assimilates outputs from HCAM and HCAM-R to allow simultaneous evaluation of both urban stormwater BMPs and agricultural conservation practices under multiple climate scenarios in a mixed land-use watershed, and produces outputs suitable for ingestion by ScenCompare, a graphical scenario comparison tool. These tools will be used in the case studies published under ACE 408.5.1.1. This subproduct will release generic versions of these tools with accompanying user guides for use by the public. This Subproduct complements other Subproducts within this Product (ACE.408.5.1.1,3-4), as well as ACE Products ACE.406.2.4 and ACE.409.4.2 and SSWR.405.4