New projects
Project Summaries: Other
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PI: Shawn Benner, DRI; COE Collaborators: Stephen Scott and Craig Fischenich, USACE ERDC; Local Stakeholder: Terri Svetich, City of Reno; Jason Kuchnicki, NDEP
The Truckee River at McCarran Ranch 15 miles downstream from Reno, Nevada, is straighter and wider, has a steeper channel gradient, is hydraulically disconnected from it’s floodplain and is the location of a multi-agency restoration project aimed at restoring the river and riparian corridor to pre-1850 conditions. Specific issues are peak flow reduction, improved aquatic and ecological health and increasing nitrate and phosphate attenuation capacity.
This project will evaluate innovative assessment technologies and demonstrate the benefits of an integrated approach to restoration assessment. A multi-use data set to address physical and biological aspects of the study will be collected at 16 transects along the five mile stretch of river, which will be used as input to models including SAM, SIAM, 2D and HEC-EFM to predict conditions after restoration. Data collected following completion of the restoration project will be used to validate and evaluate modeling methods.
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PI: Doug Boyle, DRI; Co-PI: Scott Bassett, DRI
This project will assist the Clark County Flood Control District by helping to improve the lead-time for emergency services to prepare for flood events in the Las Vegas area. In both temporal and spatial contexts, high-resolution quantitative precipitation forecasts from remote information sources (PERSIANN and NWS) will be developed and tested in selected urban watersheds, including application of CCFD HEC-1 flood forecasting models.
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