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AWRA 2018 Training Workshop: Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool
Citation:
Detenbeck, N. AND A. Piscopo. AWRA 2018 Training Workshop: Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool. American Water Resources Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 04 - 09, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
The purpose of the workshop is to introduce participants to the concept of integrated water resource management (IWRM) and to train federal, state, tribal, municipal/utility, NGO, and consultants in the use and applications of EPA’s Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) version 3. IWRM involves the coordinated application of management strategies across stormwater, wastewater, drinking water, and land conservation programs to solve water quantity and water quality problems. WMOST enables stakeholders to find the most cost-effective suite of management actions to meet water quantity and quality targets.
Description:
The purpose of the workshop is to introduce participants to the concept of integrated water resource management (IWRM) and to train federal, state, tribal, municipal/utility, NGO, and consultants in the use and applications of EPA’s Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) version 3. WMOST was designed to facilitate the application of IWRM at the community and small watershed scales to find the most cost effective suite of management practices (stormwater, wastewater, drinking water, land conservation) to meet water quantity and water quality goals. WMOST accepts time series from common water quality models (e.g., SWAT, HSPF, SWMM) to define baseline conditions, interacts with SWMM to estimate potential reductions in runoff and pollutant loads from best management practices, produces input files to submit to the NEOS interface for optimization problems, and summarizes the most cost-effective management solutions to meet water quantity and quality targets. Topics to be covered include an introduction to integrated water resources management, an overview of WMOST, optimization problem formulation, import of SWAT/HSPF/SWMM baseline time series into WMOST, use of the stormwater management module, available management options, calibration and trouble-shooting, the optimization process, and scenario development. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants should be able to import baseline time series into WMOST, define an optimization problem, evaluate the use of stormwater BMPs and other management options, submit optimization files to the online NEOS server to generate solutions, import and process NEOS output, and interpret results.