HomeMy WebLinkAboutPreface_to_Developing_path_forward_(DWR)Preface to Developing
the
Path Forward
Eflow Science Advisory Board Meeting
February 19, 2013
Fred Tarver, NCDWR
Clarify how the EFSAB’s
recommendations will be applied…
•First is how recommendations will not be
applied…
G.S. 143‐355(o)(8) ‐“Construction of subsection.
‐Nothing in this subsection shall be construed
to vary any existing, or impose any additional
regulatory requirements, related to water
quality or water resources.”
Clarify how the EFSAB’s recommendations
will be applied (cont’d.)…
NO
Enter flow statistic or equation to
calculate flow statistic or % of flow
statistic into nodes of interest in
model.
Clarify how the EFSAB’s
recommendations will be applied
(cont’d.)…
G.S. 143‐355(o)(3)(b) –“The model shall
specifically be designed to predict the places,
times, frequencies, and intervals at which any of
the following may occur:
1. Yield may be inadequate to meet all needs.
2. Yield may be inadequate to meet all essential
water uses.
3. Ecological flow may be adversely affected.”
Who is the audience?
•Environmental Management Commission: Law
requires submittal of model for public
comment and approval by EMC, including
significant modifications to approved models.
•Environmental Review Commission: Law
requires annual report on development of
hydrologic models to ERC.
•The Public: Through comment period and
access to models on DWR website.
Who is the audience? (cont’d.)
•Water system planners: municipalities &
utilities.
•The Division of Water Resources & other
agencies.
How will the recommendations and
models tool benefit major water users
•Long‐range planners seek some level of
certainty in the availability of the resource;
the model contributes to that certainty.
•Model provides water users a window of
opportunity to plan for potentially new
sources of water, future modifications to
infrastructure, and new and innovative
conservation efforts.
•Models can be used to do “what‐if” scenarios.