David R. Maidment New Project Opportunities

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David R. MaidmentNew Project Opportunities

• FEMA floodplain mapping information 1 research
  assistant, funding initially for this year but
  will likely continue. Sponsor FEMA
• Joint project with Dr Hodges
• Bacterial TMDL for Copano Bay 1 research
  assistant, funding for 1 year, well need to find
  a followup project. Sponsor TCEQ
• Joint project with Dr Kirisits
• Interface Data Model for HSPF 1 research
  assistant, funding for 1 year but will likely
  continue. Sponsor San Antonio River Authority

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Hydrologic Information System
Analysis, Modeling, Hypothesis testing
Hydrologic Database
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Arc Hydro Hydrography
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Arc Hydro Hydrology
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Arc Hydro Components
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Arc Hydro GIS for Water Resources

• Arc Hydro
• An ArcGIS data model for water resources
• Arc Hydro toolset for implementation
• Framework for linking hydrologic simulation models

The Arc Hydro data model and application tools
are in the public domain
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New Project Opportunities

• FEMA floodplain mapping information 1 research
  assistant, funding initially for this year but
  will likely continue. Sponsor FEMA
• Joint project with Dr Hodges
• Bacterial TMDL for Copano Bay 1 research
  assistant, funding for 1 year, well need to find
  a followup project. Sponsor TCEQ
• Joint project with Dr Kirisits
• Interface Data Model for HSPF 1 research
  assistant, funding for 1 year but will likely
  continue. Sponsor San Antonio River Authority

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Kayaking on US 59, Houston(Tropical Storm
Allison)
http//www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/01/
flood/
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Residential Flooding in Tropical Storm Allison
http//www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/01/
flood/
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5-day rain total (Tropical Storm Allison)
City of Houston
Harris County
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Floodplain maps(White Oak Bayou, Houston)
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FEMA Map Modernization Program

• FEMA is redoing floodplain maps for whole nation
  over next 5 years, county by county
• Spend 1.5 billion on this
• Store data and models in server farm in Cary, NC
  for whole country
• How to relate all this to Arc Hydro?
• How to quantify the error in floodplain
  boundaries?

Joint project with Dr Hodges
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New Project Opportunities

• FEMA floodplain mapping information 1 research
  assistant, funding initially for this year but
  will likely continue. Sponsor FEMA
• Joint project with Dr Hodges
• Bacterial TMDL for Copano Bay 1 research
  assistant, funding for 1 year, well need to find
  a followup project. Sponsor TCEQ
• Joint project with Dr Kirisits
• Interface Data Model for HSPF 1 research
  assistant, funding for 1 year but will likely
  continue. Sponsor San Antonio River Authority

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Water Quality
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Location of Impaired Waters
Waters are impaired when their quality is
inadequate for designated uses, e.g. fishing
and swimming
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Nueces Bay Zinc in Oyster Tissue TMDL Project
Imane Mrini Center for Research in Water
Resources The University of Texas at Austin
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Zinc loads to Nueces Bay
Q flow of water W load of zinc
Outflow
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Bacterial TMDL for Copano Bay

• DNA studies to type the sources of bacteria in
  water have been done (animals,humans, birds, etc)
• What is the loading of bacteria to the bay from
  these sources?
• How can loading be reduced to make bacterial
  concentrations acceptable?
• TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load

Joint project with Dr Kirisits
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New Project Opportunities

• FEMA floodplain mapping information 1 research
  assistant, funding initially for this year but
  will likely continue. Sponsor FEMA
• Joint project with Dr Hodges
• Bacterial TMDL for Copano Bay 1 research
  assistant, funding for 1 year, well need to find
  a followup project. Sponsor TCEQ
• Joint project with Dr Kirisits
• Interface Data Model for HSPF 1 research
  assistant, funding for 1 year but will likely
  continue. Sponsor San Antonio River Authority

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Regional Storm Water Modeling Program and Master
Plan for San Antonio
City of San Antonio
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San Antonio Regional Watershed Modeling System
Geospatial Data City, County SARA, other
Bring the models together
Modeling System
Rainfall Data Rain gages Nexrad
Calibration Data Flows Water Quality
Floodplain Management
Capital Improvement Planning
Water quality planning
Integrated Regional Water Resources planning
Flood Forecasting
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Nexrad Map to Flood Map in Arc 9 Model Builder
Flood map as output
Model for flood flow
HMS
Model for flood depth
Nexrad rainfall map as input
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Interface Data Model for HSPF

• Previous work has focused on flooding with
  HEC-RAS and HEC-HMS models
• Moving now to integrate water quality modeling
• HSPF Hydrologic Simulation Program Fortran
• Widely used simulation model for water quality
  modeling
• How to connect this to GIS requires detailed
  design of the interface and developing computer
  tools to achieve that integration.

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How to Contact Me

• Email maidment_at_mail.utexas.edu
• Telephone Campus 471-4620 Tues Thurs CRWR
  471-0065 MonWedsFri
• Office hours ECJ 8.612 3-5PM on Tues and Thurs
• Love to chat with you!
• Welcome to UT!