Corps Water Management System (CWMS)

Abstract

As part of its Civil works mission, the US Army Corps of Engineers designs, builds and operates a variety of water resources projects. Projects include, multi-use storage reservoirs, navigation dams and locks, and levee systems with closure structures. Corps Emergency Operations often include re-enforcing or raising levees, sandbagging efforts, and evacuation during flooding. The Corps Water Management System (CWMS) is used to acquire real-time data on watershed conditions, develop forecasts of project inflows and uncontrolled flows below projects, determine project releases, and evaluate impacts. These tools provide critical information to Corps water managers to make informed engineering decisions under a variety of routine and emergency conditions. An overall description of the modernization project is given, including a discussion of improved spatially distributed rainfall runoff modeling, reservoir operation modeling, steady an unsteady flow hydraulic routing, inundated area determination, and flow/stage impact analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA391010

Entities

People

  • Arthur F. Pabst

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Databases
  • Drainage Basins
  • Emergencies
  • Engineering
  • Flood Control
  • Flood Damage
  • Floods
  • Flow
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Operations Management
  • Precipitation
  • Rainfall
  • Unsteady Flow
  • Water Resources

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  • Hydraulic Engineering.
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