Two-Dimensional Water Quality Modeling Using CE-QUAL-W2 on Selected Reservoirs

Proceedings of the 1999 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 30 and 31, Athens, Georgia.Detailed modeling studies of major reservoirs within the ACT and ACF River basins were conducted to provide a basis for comparison of the impact of alternative allocations on the water quality of the reservoirs. The hydrodynamic and water quality model CE-QUAL-W2 was applied to six reservoirs within the ACT/ACF. The reservoirs included: West Point and Walter F. George (Lake Eufaula) Reservoirs on the middle and lower Chattahoochee River between Georgia and Alabama; Weiss Lake and Lake Neely Henry on the Coosa River in northeast Alabama; and Lake Allatoona and Lake Lanier in northern Georgia on the Etowah and upper Chattahoochee Rivers, respectively. The inflows, and their associated temperatures and water quality concentrations, and outflows for the CE-QUAL-W2 applications for each reservoir were provided from the results of the application ofHEC-5Q to the two basins. Simulations were conducted first to establish the baseline conditions for comparison, the no action alternative, which will be followed by simulations of the action alternative, based upon the water allocation formula.Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThis book was published by the Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2202 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of Interior, geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Insttitute as authorized by the Water Research Institutes Authorization Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-397). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of the University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors