Research Article
Optimizing Reservoir-Stream-Aquifer Interactions for Conjunctive Use and Hydropower Production
Table 1
Parameters associated with the streams, lake, and aquifer.
| Parameters | Values |
| Reservoir/lake | | Area | 2.3 × 106 m2 | Capacity | 42 × 106 m3 | Cutoff elevation | 29.5 m | Turbine elevation | 20.0 m | Initial stage | 29.0 m | Diversion channel capacity | 14115 m3/day | Penstock Capacity (release to hydropower) | 200,000 m3/day | Hydraulic Conductivity of lakebed | 0.04 m/day | Thickness of lakebed sediment | 0.9 m |
| Streams | | Width | 9.1 m | Thickness of streambed sediment | 0.3 m | Slope of streambed segments | 0.0002 | Hydraulic conductivity of streambed sediment | 0.04 m/day | Manning’s roughness coefficient | 0.02 | Streambed conductance | 180 m2/day |
| Stream inflow to lake | | Total length | 6090 m | Inflows in stress period 1 | 225840 m3/day | Inflows in stress period 2 | 56460 m3/day | Inflows in stress period 3 | 112920 m3/day |
| Stream outflow from lake | | Total length | 2435 m | First diversion channel capacity | 8750 m3/day | Second diversion channel capacity | 14115 m3/day |
| Aquifer | | Hydraulic conductivity of unconfined layer | 61 m/Day | Specific yield of the unconfined layer | 0.15 | Transmissivity of the confined layer | 371 m2/day | Storage coefficient of the confined layer | 0.0001 | Ratio of horizontal to vertical hydraulic conductivity | 100 | Groundwater recharge | 0.8 × 10−3 m/day | Precipitation rate | 2.2 × 10−3 m/day | Evaporation rate | 1.74 × 10−3 m/day |
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