Latis: Modeling Tools for Environmentally Sensitive Economic Development

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Latis Modeling Tools for Environmentally
Sensitive Economic Development
Jeffery A. Ballweber, GRI Jonathan Pote,
Agricultural Biological Engineering William H.
McAnally, Civil Engineering and GRI G. Wayne
Wilkerson, Landscape Architecture James L.
Martin, Civil Engineering Mary Love Tagert,
GRI Rita Jackson, GRI
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Background

• Smart Growth
• Preserves open space, farmland, and many other
  environmental amenities.
• Encourages compact building design to reduce
  sprawl and unnecessary impervious cover.
• Emphasizes a strong correlation between
  sustainable design practices and water quality.
• Consistent with economic growth.

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Collaboration Site Hydrologic Assessments
Center for Economic Development and Resource
Stewardship (CEDARS)

• Latis
• BMP/LID Selection Tools
• BASINS-HSPF Modeling
• Simple GUI
• Balancing Cost Payoff

Environmental Protection Agency
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Latis Connections
GIS CAD
EPAs BASINS Database Utilities
Simple GUI HSPF Hydrologic Modeling
BMP/LID Selection Spreadsheet
Scenario Evaluation
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• ArcView 3.X Compatible
• Database
• WinHSPF (or DOS HSPF) Hydrologic modeling
• Pre- and Post-processing Tools

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Latis BMP Spreadsheet
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Latis SpreadsheetLinked toDesign Information

• GA Stormwater
• EPA NPDES
• FWHA BMP

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HSPF - Hydrologic Cycle BMPs
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Latis HSPF GUI
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Latis

• Collection of tools
• Simple graphical user interface
• BMP/LID database
• Standard hydrologic modeling
• Connections to standard GIS CAD
• Both site watershed scale views
• Balancing growth and environment

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• Demo Sites
• Eurocopter Factory
• Flow reduction improved appearance for lt10K
• Sumner Point Center
• Flow reduction/improved WQ more commercial
  space
• (TVA Megasite)
• (Pearl River Resort)

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Summary

• Smart growth - Economic Environmental Sense
• Latis - Providing improved tools
• Site-specific demonstration applications
• Now working, but needs improvements
• Physics-based BMP algorithms
• Improved transport kinetics
• Enhancements to interface
• Multiple validations
• Teaching and Outreach