Interviews of Georgia Water Resources Scientists and Managers
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Author(s)
Vallotton, Bobbie A.
Rasmussen, Todd C.
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Hatcher, Kathryn J.
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Abstract
Federal and state legislation requires Source
Water Assessment and Protection Plans, Watershed Assessments, and Total Maximum Daily Loads. Georgia
water resource professionals need tools to implement these
legal mandates, educate the public, allocate resources, and
plan for the future. BASINS is an environmental analysis
system created by EPA for TMDL development. A masters
thesis conducted by the first author explores issues involved with coupling spatial analysis with hydrologic
modeling. The thesis evaluates the use of BASINS in
Georgia based on criteria selected from federal and state
legislation, and from interviews with federal, state, and
local water resource professionals. Trial simulations are
run to compare modeling over a range of watershed sizes,
to examine issues of importing data, and to examine how
BASINS can support several legal directives. A brief summary of the interviews is presented here.
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Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date
2001-03
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