Research Article

Optimizing Reservoir-Stream-Aquifer Interactions for Conjunctive Use and Hydropower Production

Table 1

Parameters associated with the streams, lake, and aquifer.

ParametersValues

Reservoir/lake
 Area2.3 × 106 m2
 Capacity42 × 106 m3
 Cutoff elevation29.5 m
 Turbine elevation20.0 m
 Initial stage29.0 m
 Diversion channel capacity14115 m3/day
 Penstock Capacity (release to hydropower)200,000 m3/day
 Hydraulic Conductivity of lakebed0.04 m/day
 Thickness of lakebed sediment0.9 m

Streams
 Width9.1 m
 Thickness of streambed sediment0.3 m
 Slope of streambed segments0.0002
 Hydraulic conductivity of streambed sediment0.04 m/day
 Manning’s roughness coefficient0.02
 Streambed conductance180 m2/day

Stream inflow to lake
 Total length6090 m
 Inflows in stress period 1225840 m3/day
 Inflows in stress period 256460 m3/day
 Inflows in stress period 3112920 m3/day

Stream outflow from lake
 Total length2435 m
 First diversion channel capacity8750 m3/day
 Second diversion channel capacity14115 m3/day

Aquifer
 Hydraulic conductivity of unconfined layer61 m/Day
 Specific yield of the unconfined layer0.15
 Transmissivity of the confined layer371 m2/day
 Storage coefficient of the confined layer0.0001
 Ratio of horizontal to vertical hydraulic conductivity100
 Groundwater recharge0.8 × 10−3 m/day
 Precipitation rate2.2 × 10−3 m/day
 Evaporation rate1.74 × 10−3 m/day

Irrigated field  m2