The Confluence Water Resources Planning Model

• Can be used for water systems of any level of complexity.

• System supplies and facilities to be added and edited, and system configuration specified, on an interactive system schematic (see example at right).

• Allows an unlimited number and variety of surface water and groundwater supply alternatives, storage facilities, transmission links, treatment plants, and demand nodes.

• Broad flexibility in specifying system operating rules and testing alternative operating approaches.

• Comprehensive specification of reservoir rule curves.

• Accurate simulation of conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater sources.

• Multiple demand nodes with differing growth characteristics and/or supply sources.

• Simulates system operations for user-specified forecast years against user-specified hydrologic and weather conditions.

• Choice of time step, from monthly to sub-daily.

• Conservation module allows detailed specification of unlimited number of current and future conservation programs.

• Complete financial and cost accounting module tracks future system capital and operating costs.

• Unlimited variety of chart and tabular outputs describing system operations, reliability, costs, demands, etc. (see sample at right).
  

• NEW: Climate change module facilitates detailed definition of different climate change scenarios and allows testing of the robustness of alternative strategies against future changes in climate.

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