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Minnesota River Basin
Integrated Watershed, Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Study
Study Purpose
- To bring local, state and federal entities
Status of the Study Interagency Study Team Modeling Group Meeting - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Status of the Study Interagency Study Team Modeling Group Meeting - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Minnesota River Basin Integrated Watershed, Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Study Status of the Study Interagency Study Team Modeling Group Meeting April 20, 2010 Study Purpose To bring local, state and federal entities together
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Objectives
- To prepare a plan for watershed
management, water quality, and ecosystem restoration
- To develop a decision support system
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Focus
- Flood damage reduction
- Ecosystem restoration
- Watershed management
- Water quality
management
- Ground water
management
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Evaluate and Assess
Current and future…
- Hydrologic regime/basin
water budget
- Aquatic habitat condition
- Sediment transport
- Nutrient loading
- Watershed condition
- Basin social & economic
conditions
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Outputs
- LiDAR
- Watershed modeling
- Decision support system
– Spatially explicit – Technical tools for local use – Developed with stakeholder input
- Final report
– Basin goals/objectives – Simulated existing & future conditions – Recommended actions
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Interagency Study Team
- Guides where study goes
- Serves as information broker to & from
member agencies
- Advises Study Coordination Team
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Technical Groups
- Advise the Interagency Study Team on the
project…
– Public involvement – Plan focus and elements – Decision support system
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The Planning Group
- Identified fundamental planning questions
- Will help …
– Develop strategic plan for communication and public involvement – Identify ecologically realistic targets and other future scenarios – Identify key users and what they want in a decision support system
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The Modeling Group
- Modeling group will help …
– Determine how to apply technical analysis in addressing fundamental project questions
- Select, apply and interpret models
- Identify and address data collection needs
- Scale up to major watersheds and the basin
– Translate results into a decision support system
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Progress to Date
- Project management plan
- Preliminary modeling discussions
- Preliminary outreach/communications
discussions
- Initial discussion of the form & function of
the decision support system
- Initial discussion of the fundamental
questions the project should answer
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Minnesota River Watershed Plan (DSS) Technical Analysis Alternatives Scenario Development/Analysis Subwatershed Modeling Small Subwatershed Modeling
Simulate Subwatershed Hydrology and Materials Transport – Existing Conditions
Identify Target Future Conditions Select Management Measures Interagency Study Team/Technical Teams
Simulate Subwatershed Hydrology and Materials Transport – Reference Conditions
Simulated Management Measures and Effects (Economic/Ecological) Basin Modeling Scaling Model Parameters to Basin Level Simulate River Water Quality Simulate Future Basin Conditions
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2010 Meeting Series (March-May)
- Purposes – Come to agreement on the
fundamental questions we want the project to answer and how best to do so
– Understand what analyses the questions may require – Develop analytical strategies – Select sub-watersheds to represent the basin in addressing the questions
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2010 Meeting Series (March-May)
- March 16
– Planning group – identified fundamental questions that the study should answer
- April 20
– Modeling group – identify the most effective tools and ways to answer the questions
- May 4
– Interagency Study Team – consider recommendations
- f two groups; synthesize and identify next steps
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Next Steps for the Study Team Short Term (2010)
- Confirm fundamental questions
- Develop the strategy for addressing them
– Sub-watershed selection – Model selection – Identify roles/responsibilities for technical analysis – Identify data needs for analysis
- Develop communications & public outreach
strategies
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Next Steps for the Study Team Long Term (2011-2012)
- Implement communications & public
- utreach strategies
- Develop technical analyses within each sub-
watershed to understand possible answers and implications
- Identify key users and what they need in a
decision support system
- Begin to build the DSS
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Contact Info
- John Wells
Environmental Quality Board e-mail: john.wells@state.mn.us Phone: 651.201.2475
- Michael Wyatt