Water Quality Model for El Cajon Reservoir

HEC-HMS Long-term Simulation of Cuenca Cajon Oliver Obregon, Thomas Lloyd, Clark Barlow Oliver Obregon and Clark Barlow In collaboration with ITESO University

Project Location

Issues Dams are planned and under construction along the Santiago River in the Cajon watershed Mexican engineers would like to be able to predict how quickly new dams will be filled with water

Model Background • What is

HEC-HMS

?

Capable of long-term, distributed (gridded) simulations Methods Used within HEC-HMS – SMA (Soil Moisture Accounting) – MOD Clark

Method Information SMA • True long-term simulation • Uses parameters such as canopy storage, groundwater storage, infiltration rates, evapotransporation rates, etc.

MOD Clark • Requires fewer parameters • Better suited for single storm events (short-term simulations) • SCS based method

HEC-HMS SMA Method •

Information Gathered

DEMs, Dam locations, Soil and Land Use Data (not used) •

Information Not Gathered

Everything else

SMA Project Approach

1. Using real and fabricated data, built a running, working model 2. Created a HEC-HMS SMA tutorial 3. Created a parameter optimization tutorial

HEC-HMS MOD Clark Method • •

Information Gathered

– DEMs, Dam locations, Soil and Land Use, Precipitation (Tepic)

Assumptions

– 25 x 25 grid – Precipitation data was representative – Two month duration (wettest months)

MOD Clark Project Approach

1. Created CN table for land use and soil data 2. Used average daily precipitation values (6-hour and daily increments) 3. Used actual daily precipitation data from July-August 2006

HEC-HMS MOD Clark Results

HEC-HMS MOD Clark Results

HEC-HMS MOD Clark Results