LAGO   Consulting   &   Services LLC
    • Home
    • About Us
      • The Company
      • Leadership
      • Certifications
    • Services
      • Modeling Services
      • Consulting Services
      • Software Development >
        • Fill Sinks Plus
        • HEC-RAS to MIKE11
        • SWMM5 to Shp
        • Lago Toolbox
    • Projects
    • FAQ/Contact
    • LAGO-LG2 JV
  • MENU

 Berry Groves Water Farming        

Picture
Client: South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) (sub-consultant to ADA Engineering Inc.)
Year: 2013
​

About: 
This was a pilot project to evaluate the feasibility of using the Berry Groves Reservoir site on an interim basis to store excess wet season C-43 flows in order to reduce harmful freshwater discharges to the Caloosahatchee Estuary. ​ 
Picture
Specifics:
    LAGO developed a spreadsheet model for two scenarios in order to analyze the effectiveness of pumping water from the C-43 Canal into the inactive Berry Groves property during periods of high flow. The water budget inflows included rainfall and C-43 canal pumping. 
    The outflows included seepage, evapotranspiration (ET), and weir discharges. The weir discharges depended on water elevation in the storage area.   Two different storage configurations were evaluated making a total of 10 scenarios studied. 
    The spreadsheet model was used to compute the daily water budget for three different pumping scenarios.  Each scenario was based on a different threshold of flow (3,000, 5,000, and 10,000 cfs) in the C-43 to turn on pumping to the storage facility. In addition to the pumping scenarios, two cases representing the existing conditions and no pumping condition were modeled. Finally, sensitivity tests of the pumping capacity were conducted for the default (5,000 cfs) scenario. 
Picture
Applied Skills:
  • Customized software: Spreadsheet modeling
  • Reservoir Modeling
  • Scenarios Evaluation​ ​
Consulting Areas:
  • Surface water features design
Software Applied:
  •  A la carte software (Spreadsheet model)​
Outcome:
The spreadsheet model predicted that the smaller storage configuration would be more cost effective. From the sensitivity tests, it was also demonstrated a significant reduction in the cost per acre-foot of water stored by increasing capacity from one to two 20,000 GPM pumps, although this cost increases slightly if a third pump is utilized. 
< Previous Project
Next Project  >
  • Home
  • About Us
    • The Company
    • Leadership
    • Certifications
  • Services
    • Modeling Services
    • Consulting Services
    • Software Development >
      • Fill Sinks Plus
      • HEC-RAS to MIKE11
      • SWMM5 to Shp
      • Lago Toolbox
  • Projects
  • FAQ/Contact
  • LAGO-LG2 JV
Modeling Services
Picture

- Data mining & Processing
- Conceptualization & Setup
- Sensitivity Tests
- Model Calibration
- Model Telescoping
- Design Storm Simulations
- Scenario Evaluations
​- Post-Processing of results
- Peer review
- Model QA/QC
- Mass balance checks
- Fixing numerical instabilities
- Calibration/validation checks
​- Reservoir Storage Modeling
- GIS data mgmt. and tools

Consulting Areas
Picture

- Natural resources planning
- Stormwater management
- Groundwater management
- Surface water structure design
- Water supply planning
- Species and sediment transport
- Salt water intrusion
- Floodplain delineation & management
- Floodway Encroachment Analysis
​- Urban and coastal flooding
- Water quality studies
- Wetland conservation and restoration
- Wellhead protection area delineation
- Landscape ecology
- Water regulations permitting

Featured Software
Picture

MIKE 11
MIKE SHE
MIKE21
ECOLab
MODFLOW
GWV (Vistas)
MODHMS
​GIS-ArcMap

HEC-RAS
​HEC-HMS
EPA-SWMM
​XP-SWMM
ICPR
​RiverFlow2D
WASP
HSPF

Software Development
Picture

Spreadsheet modeling
File format converters
Pre- & post-processing tools
A la carte software (C#, Python, etc)


Employee Login   ​
         About    |    Terms  and Conditions    |    Privacy Policy    |    Certifications    | ​   Tools    |    Contact us     
Picture
4237 Henderson Blvd #201, Tampa FL 33629.   |   P.O. Box 10481, Tampa, FL, 33679   |   813-774-5559
www.lago-consulting.com & Lago Consulting & Services LLC.    © 2023  All Rights Reserved