Transcript Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process and Using the WWA Tool for Planning and Watershed Management David P.

Michigan’s Water Withdrawal
Assessment Process
and
Using the WWA Tool for Planning
and Watershed Management
David P. Lusch,
Ph.D.
Distinguished Senior Research Specialist
Michigan State University
Dept. of Geography, Remote Sensing & GIS
Research and Outreach Services Group
and
Institute of Water Research
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Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
for Planning and Watershed Management
• Objectives (1 of 3)
– The Great Lakes Compact: why Michigan
is regulating large-quantity water
withdrawals
– Brief review of Michigan Water Law
– Tutorial on some key hydrologic terms
and concepts
– Does your community plan for sustainable
water uses?
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Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
for Planning and Watershed Management
• Objectives (2 of 3)
– Brief overview of the science behind the
Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
• Stream-flow estimation
• Impact assessment of flow reductions on fish
habitat
• Modeling groundwater – surface water
interactions
– Review of the environmental criteria now
used to assess “adverse resource
impacts”
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Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
for Planning and Watershed Management
• Objectives (3 of 3)
– Overview of the groundwater & surface
water resources of the regions
– Overview of the Water Withdrawal
Assessment Tool (WWAT)
– Example uses of the WWAT for
sustainable community development
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Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
for Planning and Watershed Management
• Overview of the groundwater &
surface water resources of Southeast
Lower Michigan
• Overview of the Water Withdrawal
Assessment Tool (WWAT)
• Example uses of the WWAT for
sustainable community development
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Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
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Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
for Planning and Watershed Management
Black R.
N. Br. Clinton R.
Paint Cr.
Clinton R.
Rouge R.
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Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
for Planning and Watershed Management
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Aquifers
• Any geologic material that stores and
transmits groundwater
• Two basic types:
 Bedrock Aquifers
 Glacial Aquifers
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Groundwater Inventory & Mapping
http://
gwmap.rsgis.msu.edu
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Bedrock Aquifers
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Bedrock Aquifers
Rb
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Sa
PB
Sc
Mi
Ma
3.6 X vertical exaggeration
KILOMETERS
GLACIAL DEPOSITS
Rb
Sa
Sc
PB
Mi
Ma
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Freshwater / Saline-water
interface
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Wells in Bedrock Aquifers
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Yield from Bedrock Aquifers
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Glacial Sediment Thickness
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Glacial Sediment Characterization
Confining material dominates
Marginal aquifer material mixed with
partially confining material dominates
Marginal aquifer material dominates
Aquifer material dominates
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Wells in Glacial Aquifers
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Yield from Glacial Aquifers
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Depth to First Water
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Michigan’s Water Withdrawal Assessment Process
for Planning and Watershed Management
• The next segment
– Assessment Tool
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