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  4. Modeling to quantify the thermal effect of selected point sources to the Willamette River under existing and modified conditions: 2011, 2015, and 2016

Modeling to quantify the thermal effect of selected point sources to the Willamette River under existing and modified conditions: 2011, 2015, and 2016

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2011-03-21
End Date
2016-11-01

Citation

Stratton Garvin, L.E., and Rounds, S.A., 2022, CE-QUAL-W2 models for the Willamette River and major tributaries downstream of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams: 2011, 2015, and 2016 (version 1.1, December 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P908DXKH.

Summary

To meet their permit requirements under the water-temperature Total Maximum Daily Load for the Willamette River, Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies members need to understand the potential thermal effects of various heat-mitigation alternatives for their treated wastewater discharges to the Willamette River, such as the installation of cooling towers that would decrease the temperature of their effluent. CE-QUAL-W2, a two-dimensional, hydrodynamic water quality model, has been used to investigate temperature and heat patterns in the Willamette River, the downstream effects of dam operations, and other anthropogenic effects on stream temperature such as effluent discharge from waste-water treatment plants. This data release [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Laurel E Stratton Garvin
Originator :
Laurel E Stratton Garvin
Metadata Contact :
Laurel E Stratton Garvin
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
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U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Willamette_ACWA_CE_QUAL_W2_metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		19.82 KB application/fgdc+xml
README_ACWA_datarelease.txt 5.33 KB text/plain
QTR2_qps_2011_MWMCFlow_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.42 KB text/csv
QTR2_qps_2015_CottageGroveFlow_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.41 KB text/csv
QTR2_qps_2015_MWMCFlow_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.39 KB text/csv
QTR2_qps_2016_CottageGroveFlow_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.41 KB text/csv
QTR2_qps_2016_MWMCFlow_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.39 KB text/csv
QTR10_qps_2011_AlbanyFlow_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.86 KB text/csv
QTR10_qps_2015_AlbanyFlow_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.4 KB text/csv
QTR10_qps_2016_AlbanyFlow_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.4 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2011_MWMCTemp_ACWAcooled.csv 2.88 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2011_MWMCTemp_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.65 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2015_CottageGroveTemp_ACWAcooled.csv 2.8 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2015_CottageGroveTemp_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.64 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2015_MWMCTemp_ACWAcooled.csv 2.79 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2015_MWMCTemp_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.63 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2016_CottageGroveTemp_ACWAcooled.csv 2.81 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2016_CottageGroveTemp_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.65 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2016_MWMCTemp_ACWAcooled.csv 2.79 KB text/csv
TTR2_tps_2016_MWMCTemp_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.63 KB text/csv
TTR10_tps_2011_AlbanyTemp_ACWAcooled.csv 2.78 KB text/csv
TTR10_tps_2011_AlbanyTemp_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.63 KB text/csv
TTR10_tps_2015_AlbanyTemp_ACWAcooled.csv 2.78 KB text/csv
TTR10_tps_2015_AlbanyTemp_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.64 KB text/csv
TTR10_tps_2016_AlbanyTemp_ACWAcooled.csv 2.78 KB text/csv
TTR10_tps_2016_AlbanyTemp_ACWAmeasured.csv 2.64 KB text/csv

Purpose

This data release documents the boundary conditions for scenarios run to support investigation and analysis of the potential impact of heat-mitigation alternatives for treated effluent discharged to the Coast Fork Willamette and Willamette Rivers by representative member agencies of the Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies. The boundary conditions documented here can be applied to the models documented in the main landing page of this data release and described further in an accompanying U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221017). This data release provides the data files required to reproduce the modeling results obtained in this study.

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