Surface Water Availability Resource Assessment in Georgia State Water Plan Efforts – Lessons Learned

Proceedings of the 2011 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 11, 12, and 13, 2011, Athens, Georgia.Over the past two and half years, Georgia’s surface water resources assessment team devoted a tremendous amount of effort in developing unimpaired flow data, water resources modeling tools, and approaches in assessing available resources for the State Water Planning process. Georgia’s surface water resource assessment team includes Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) and its major surface water resource assessment contractors, ARCADIS, Riverside Technology, and Georgia Water Resources Institute. Much has been done and learned through the process resource assessment as well as data and tool preparation. We would like to share the experiences with our peers and seek improvements in the next round of work.Sponsored by: Georgia Environmental Protection Division U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Water Science Center U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Water Resources Institute The University of Georgia, Water Resources FacultyThis book was published by Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2152. The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views