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Recommendations for a Modeling Framework to Answer Nutrient Management Questions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Philip Trowbridge, Michael Deas, Eli S. Ateljevich, Eric M. Danner, Joseph L. Domagalski, Christopher Enright, William Fleenor, Chris Foe, Marianne Guerin, David Senn, Lisa Thompson | March 1st, 2016


Management actions in the Delta related to nutrients could cost billions of dollars to implement in the coming decades depending on decisions that will come before the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Water Board). The complexity of the Delta ecosystem and the range of questions to be addressed demand that numerical, processed-based water quality modeling be part of Delta management efforts. In light of this fact, the Water Board convened the Modeling Science Workgroup in 2015, and tasked it with advising on the development and use of water quality models as one component of the Water Board’s Nutrient Research Plan. The Charge to the Modeling Science Workgroup (included in Appendix B) was to provide advice to the Water Board on: 

· The types of models would be needed to answer the nutrient management questions raised by stakeholders, 

· Organizational arrangements to support and maximize the benefits of models, and 

· Cost estimates for the modeling task and how such work might be phased over time. 

Keywords

modeling, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, science management, water quality