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04/15/00

Category: Technical Reports

Posted by: Kaushik Surendran

Decision Support System for the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) River Basin

Aris Georgakakos (GWRI/Georgia Tech)

Technical Report

Principal Investigator: Aris Georgakakos (GWRI/Georgia Tech)      About...

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Start Date: 2000-04-15; Completion Date: 2002-02-14;

Keywords: Decision Support System, Reservoir Control and Operation, Water Resources Management and Planning, Ecological Integrity, Flood and Drought Management, Hydropower

Problem and Research Objectives:

The Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) River Basin is shared by the states of Alabama and Georgia. The basin serves several water uses including agriculture, municipal and industrial water supply,hydropower, flood control, water quality, ecosystem protection, and recreation. The states of Alabama and Georgia have been trying to negotiate a river compact for the ACT for the last five year but so far no agreement on water allocation could be reached. Many observers attribute the slow pace of the negotiation process to the absense of a shared set of comprehensive decision support tools capable of assessing the impact of the various water allocation proposals on the system. The objective of the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa Decision Support System (ACT-DSS) project is to develop an advanced simulation-optimization decision support system for the ACT basin that can be used to assess the potential of the basin and investigate the impacts of alternative water allocation and management scenarios. GWRI intends to make the ACT-DSS available to the ACT stakeholders and assist them in using the system effectively during the negotiation process. Beyond the water allocation negotiation phase the model can be used to support water management.

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