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Corkscrew Swamp Watershed Hydrologic Modeling Project

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Client: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
(Sub-Consultant to WSA, Inc.)
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Year: 2019 - 2020
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​​About: 
The development of a hydrologic model was requested to assist Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary (CSS) in understanding factors that have led to decreased wetland hydroperiods in the Sanctuary.  CSS is an ecologic relic of Old Florida and protects the largest remaining old-growth bald cypress swamp in the world.  A 60-year record of daily water level measurements revealed substantial changes in Corkscrew Swamp’s hydrology as agricultural and residential development have grown to dominate the landscape surrounding the Sanctuary. ​
Services:
  • Integrated Modeling: Model updates & improvements
  • Model calibration
  • Scenario evaluations
Consulting Areas:
  • Surface water Management
  • Wetland conservation and restoration
​Software Applied:
  • ​MIKE SHE/MIKE11
  • ArcMap
  • LAGO Toolbox
Specifics:
In collaboration to WSA, a higher resolution MIKE SHE/MIKE 11 model was built around the CCS. Updated model inputs included rainfall, reference ET, topography, landuse coverage, irrigation coverage and rates, flow paths and surface water structures, hydrogeological parameters, and observation data from surface and groundwater monitoring stations.

During model calibration, reported irrigation from large agriculture operations were used to adjust model irrigation parameters. Also, the hydraulic conductivities were adjusted by using a proprietary tool (Adjust dfs2 file) to better match the observation data.​ ​
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Outcome:
​​The updated and recalibrated model was used to evaluate a number of scenarios with the objective of providing direction for future analyses and formulation of restoration plans to improve wetland hydroperiods and enhanced functions of within this the unique ecologic resources of the Sanctuary.
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Modeling Services
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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Spreadsheet modeling
File format converters
Pre- & post-processing tools
A la carte software (C#, Python, etc)


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