Past AWRA Proceedings, Special Publications and Monograph Series

Table of Contents

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SESSION 1: DEMAND MANAGEMENT - I

Weather Forecasting as a Component of Groundwater Management Planning in the San Antonio, Texas Region
- Elliot Fry, Patrick Shriver

Value of Certainty in Loss Predictions Under Consensus - Based Decision-Making Framework for Surplus Water Allocation During Drought
- Saket Pande

Reliability of Rainwater Harvesting
- James Male, Mark S. Kennedy

Achieving Sustainable Water Conservation with Business Customers
- Stuart Moulder, Mohan Seneviratne

Rio Grande Irrigation Efficiency: Water Use, Management and Conservation Incentives
- Ari Michelsen, Frank Ward, and Leeann Demouche

SESSION 2: INNOVATIVE TREATMENTS - METALS

Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water: Experience from El Paso, Texas
- Juan Gomez, Joseph Chwirka, Christian Colvin, Brock McEwen, John Balliew

Effects of Water Velocity on Hydroponic Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals
- Pete Weiss, Jeffrey Weiss, John S. Gulliver, and David D. Biesboer

Mobilization of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Soils
- Juan Gomez, John Walton, and Nicholas Pingitore Jr.

Chilopsis linearis and Tecoma stans: Desert Plant Species Potentially Usable for Phytomining
- Elena Rodriguez, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, and Jose R. Peralta-Videa

SESSION 3: TMDLs - I

Nutrients in the San Joaquin RIver, California: Trends and Sources
- Charles Kratzer, Peter D. Dileanis, Celia Zamora, and Steve R. Silva

An Analytical Framework for Development of TMDLs and Selection of Best Management Practices in the San Jacinto Watershed, California
- Stephen Carter, Rick Whetsel, Andrew Parker, Mark Norton, Hope Smythe, and Xinyu Li

Estimating Nutrient Loadings Using GIS: Spatial Variability of Precipitation and Event Mean Concentrations
- Ramesh Teegavarapu and Lindell Ormsbee

TMDL Modeling at Various Spatial Scales
- Jeffrey Hiscock, Del Bottcher and Barry Jacobson

SESSION 4: REGIONAL WATER REUSE - I

Recycled Water Practices in the Los Angeles Region, California, USA
- Don Tsai

Southern California Water Recycling Projects Initiative: Building Regional Partnerships and Assisting Regional Water Recycling Activities
- Anne Lynch, Scott Lynch, and Steve Kasower

The History of Reclaimed Water in San Diego, California
- Jon Jamieson

Sustainable Recycled Water Use: The Ras Al Khaimah Case
- Abdullah Khan

SESSION 5: ASR - I

Geochemical Controls on the Evolution of Water Quality During Aquifer Storage
- Janet Hering, Giehyeon Lee, Maria Echarte, Jason Fisher, and Thomas C. Harmon

ASR Development in West-Central Florida - A SWFWMD Perspective
- Doreen Chan

Status of Aquifer Storage and Recovery Issues and Research in the Southwest Florida Water Management District
- Donald Ellison

On Recovery Efficiency of Aquifer Storage and Recovery Systems
- Zhuping Sheng

The Effect of Environmental "Carrying Capacity" Upon Numbers of Bacteria Introduced into Carbon-Limited Groundwater Systems: Implications for Aquifer Storage and Recover (ASR) Operations and for Bioaugmentation of Contaminated Aquifers
- Ronald Harvey, Cyndee L. Gruden, Nancy E. Kinner, David W. Metge

SESSION 6: DEMAND MANAGEMENT - II

Incorporating Consideration of Location, Compliance, and Reliability into Estimates of Brackish Resource Development Costs
- Andrea Traviglia and Gregory W. Characklis

Partnership Between Land Use and Water Supply Planning in San Diego County: Ensuring Adequate Supplies for Future Growth
- Dana Friehauf

Oxnard's Great Program - Putting the Pieces Together
- Julia Aranda, Greg Arakaki, Lynn Takaichi, and Ken Ortega

Water Demand Forecasting for Animal Agriculture: A Time Series Approach
- Murali Adhikari, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Laxmi Paudel, and Jack E. Houston

SESSION 7: PATHOGENS IN WATERSHEDS

Florida Healthy Beaches Monitoring Program
- Bart Bibler

A Method to Track and Identify Fecal Coliform Sources
- Michael Schmidt, Michael G. Heyl, and Richard A. Wagner

Modeling and Allocation Development for an Urban Indicator Bacteria TMDL
- Tina Petersen, Monica P. Suarez, Paul Jensen, Yu-Chun Su, Ron Stein, and Hanadi S. Rifai

Modeling Pathogen Runoff in Arid Watersheds
- Drew Ackerman, Kenneth Schiff, and Eric Stein

SESSION 8: TMDLs - II

Cuyahoga River Restoration Project - Balancing History and Environment
- Erin Ansell, Robert Brown, Ted Johnson, and Greg Schell

Development of Sediment Quality Criteria for California
- G. Fred Lee and Anne Jones-Lee

Use Attainability Analysis: Niche WIthin the TMDL Program
- Tamim Younos and Jane Walker

SESSION 9: REGIONAL WATER REUSE - II

Recharging Stormwater and Wastewater into Glacial Kettles
- Steve Nelson

How the Fastest Growing City in the Country has Adapted in Order to Provide for the Needs of its Customers
- Kyle Okamura

Water Reuse Planning in the Desert is not as Easy as You Might Think
- Tim Francis and Doug Kukino

An IEUA Recycled Water Success Story
- John Robinson and Garth R. Morgan

SESSION 10: ASR - II

Noble Gas Studies in the Mojave Desert, California: The Effects of Recharge Processes on Excess-Air Entrainment in Groundwater
- Justin Kulongoski, John Izbicki, and David R. Hilton

Xenon Isotopes as Groundwater Tracers
- Bryant Hudson and Jean Moran

Evaluation of Hydrogeology and Recovery Efficiency of ASR in Brackish Water
- Robert Maliva, Weixing Guo, W.Kirk Martin, and Thomas M. Missimer

Water From Wells or Water From Aquifers?
- John Izbicki, Allen H. Christensen, Mark W. Newhouse, and Gregory A. Smith

SESSION 11: IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF URBANIZATION - I

Developing an Assessment to Address Impacts from Urbanization on Stream Channel Stability-Introduction
- Gary Palhegyi, Stacey Porter, and Jeffrey Haltiner

Developing Tools to Predict and Manage Stream Channel Erosion Resulting from Urbanization
- Gary Palhegyi, Stacey Porter, and Jeffrey Haltiner

Developing an Assessment Method to Address Impacts from Urbanization on Stream Channel Stability (Geomorphology)
- Stacey Porter, Gary Palhegyi, Jeffrey Haltiner, Barry Hecht

Assessing the Hydrologic Impacts of Urbanization: Thompson Creek Example
- Jeffrey Haltiner, Gary Palhegyi, and Stacey Porter

Des Moines Creek - A Holistic Approach to Watershed Restoration
- Zahid Khan and Jon Hansen

SESSION 12: GROUNDWATER AND SURFACEWATER INTERACTIONS

Water Loss and Contaminant Migration in the Big Lost River, Idaho: Where and How Much?
- Ahmed Said, David K. Stevens, and Gerald Sehlke

Effects of Discharge from Multiple Aquifers on Stream Chemistry in Agricultural Areas of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
- Scott Ator, Judith M. Denver, and Michael J. Brayton

Groundwater Monitoring in the West San Jacinto Watershed
- Christie Crother and Behrooz Mortazavi

Coupling of Watersheds and Coastal Waters: Sources and Consequences of Contamination Estimation by Numerical Modeling
- Ghosh Bobba

SESSION 13: WATER RESOURCES PLANNING

Supporting Regional Water Planning with Community-Based Decision Modeling
- Vincent Tidwell and Howard Passell

A Bayesian Belief Network Model for Multi-Objective Optimization of the Gaza Water Resources System
- Said Ghabayen and Mac McKee

Water Allocation Among Multiple Stakeholders: The Case of Waiahole Water Project, Hawaii
- Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Jason Levy

Watershed Management and Biodiversity Conservation, Processes for Linking Science and Policy
- Sasha Charney and Leslie Bach

Watershed Partnerships in Action
- Beverley Getzen

SESSION 14: PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS AND EDUCATION

A Survey of Local Watershed Activity in the Southeast
- Christine Olsenius

Bridging Education and Watershed Management
- Kim Stokely

A Coordinated Approach to Motivating Homeowners to Implement BMPs at Lake Tahoe
- John Cobourn and Matthew R. Graham

Project WET: A Great Watershed Education Tool
- Judy Maben

SESSION 15: TRANSBOUNDARY WATER ISSUES

The Navruz Project: Cooperative Transboundary River Monitoring, Data Sharing and Modeling in Central Asia
- Howard Passell and David Barber

Bi-National Planning Cooperation: U.S. - Mexico Joint Feasibility Assessment of a Regional Colorado River Conveyance Facility
- Douglas Gillingham, Richard Pyle, and Eduardo Arguelles

Possible Transboundary Conflicts in the Death Valley Regional Ground - Water Flow System, California and Nevada
- Terry Fisk

The Bellagio Draft Treaty: A Management Tool for Transboundary Waters
- Marilyn O'Leary

SESSION 16: WATER MANAGEMENT - I

Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to Evaluate the Potential of Inter-Canal Reallocation of Water to Increase Agricultural Production After Water Transfers
- Mark Smith

Ecosystem Economics
- Daniel Heagerty and Ed Whitelaw

Water Wars: The Growing Conflict Between Navigation and Other Water Uses
- David Grier

Linking Water Supply and Growth Planning: A Report Card on Implementation of SB610 and SB221 in California
- Brian Boxer

SESSION 17: GIS AND REMOTE SENSING - I

Developing GIS Decision Support Tools for the Santa Anna River Watershed
- Tim Krantz, Frank Davenport, Wendy Katagi, Jeffrey Beehler, and Jeff Davis

GIS in Action: Establishing a GIS Inventory for Watershed Planning
- Matthew Huisman

Predicting Summertime Single-Family Residential Irrigation Amounts in Los Angeles, California, Using Satellite Remote Sensing
- Tyler Johnson and Allen S. Hope

GIS and River Ice - Putting Ice on the Map
- Patricia Weyrick, Brian Tracy, and Steven F. Daly

SESSION 18: TMDLs - III

Effects of Rainfall Intensity and Duration on First Flush From Urban Catchments
- Kenneth Schiff and Liesl Tiefenthaler

Urban Runoff Water Quality: Compensating for Variability to Identify Long-Term Trends in Seven California Watersheds
- Donald Duke and Suzan E. Given

Assessing Dry Weather Loading in Urbanized, Arid Watersheds
- Eric Stein, Drew Ackerman, Andrea Steinberger, and Ken Schiff

Square Pegs and Round Holes: The Challenge of a TMDL for Total Dissolved Gas for the Columbia River Dams
- Paul Pickett

SESSION 19: COLORADO RIVER - I

Modeling Watershed-Scale Water-Quality With Focus on Wastewater Pollutants in a Mountainous Colorado Basin
- Paula Jo Lemonds and John E. McCray

Strategic GIS Implementation Planning for the Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board
- Frank Davenport, Sabine Hoover, and Tarek Rashed

Evaluation of Real-Time Streamflow Forecasts from a Distributed, Physically Based, Hydrologic Model Applied in the Gunnison River Basin, CO
- Douglas Boyle

Solving the Gordian Knot: The Colorado RIver in the 21st Century
- Peter Lavigne

SESSION 20: ASR - III

Using Inexpensive Geophysics to Evaluate Infiltration and Groundwater Recharge in a Desert Environment
- David Bolin, Lance Eckhart, Gilein Steensma, and Virginia Maris

Modeling Reactive and Non-Reactive Transport of a Natural Metallic Contaminant in an Aquifer Storage System
- Maria Echarte, Jason F. Fisher, Thomas Harmon, Giehyeon Lee, and Janet G. Hering

Aquifer Storage and Recovery Management for the San Antonio Water System
- Mike Brinkmann and James Dwyer

Adapting ASR to Varying Hydrogeologic Environments in Florida
- Ronald Kaufmann

SESSION 21: WATER MANAGEMENT - II

Rehabilitation of Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe - A Utility Perspective
- Robert E. Beamer, Donald R. Kendall, and Susan B. Mulligan

Leveraging Field Automation and GIS to Enhance Aging Infrastructure Management
- Christopher Stern and Miguel Hernandez

Water Quality Model of Olivenhain Reservoir for San Diego Water County Authority
- Russ Brown

Canal Flow Regulation Using Support Vector Machines
- Rajaa Mustafa and Mac McKee

A Decision Making Framework for Planning and Managing Integrated Water Resources Development Projects
- Steve Kadivar

SESSION 22: GIS AND REMOTE SENSING - II

Developing a GIS for Stormwater Management in Local Municipalities
- Roger Ruggles

Spatially Distributed Energy Fluxes Estimation Using Remotely-Sensed Data From Agricultural Field
- Assefa Melesse and Vijay Nangia

Use of Satellite and Aerial Imagery for Assessment of Hydrologic Condition
- Gregg N. Teasdale and Michael E. Barber

Hydrological Modelling of a Small Watershed Using Remote Sensing Data and GIS Technique
- Mahendra Prasad Tripathi, P. K. Shrivasatva and A. M. Kamble

SESSION 23: TMDL - IV

Critical Pollutant Loading Conditions for Chloride in Calleguas Creek, California
- Donald Duke, Elizabeth Erickson, and Melinda Becker

Total Maximum Daily Load Effectiveness Monitoring for Total Phosphorus in Lake Sawyer, Washington State
- George Onwumere and Robert W. Plotnikoff

Developing Low-Flow and Wet-Weather TMDLs in the Los Angeles River Watershed
- Brian Watson, Steve Carter, Drew Ackerman, and Terrence Fleming

Development of TMDL for a Nutrient Impaired Stream Using a Disaggregated Flow Model with a Simplified Fate and Transport Model
- Lindell Ormsbee and Patrick Blandford

SESSION 24: COLORADO RIVER - II

Adaptive Management: A Collaborative Tool to Bridge Science, Policy, and Competing Interests in Water Resources and Ecosystem Management on the Colorado River
- Steven P Gloss

A Multi-Objective Calibration Approach Applied to Hydrologic Modeling of the Upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado, Part 1
- Steven Markstrom, Lauren Hay, George Leavesley, Martyn Clark, and Douglas Boyle

Comparison of Hydrologic Forecasting Techniques in the Upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado, Part 2
- Lauren Hay, Martyn Clark, Steve Markstrom, and George Leavesley

Restoring the Salton Sea - California's Largest Lake
- Timothy Krantz

SESSION 25: BMPs PERFORMANCE/O & M

Private Stormwater Facility Maintenance: The Carrot Approach
- Lisa Dennis-Perez and Eric Hielema

Storm Water Filtration Pilot Studies at Lake Tahoe
- Dipen Patel, Jeffrey Hauser, and John Johnston

Effectiveness of Vegetated Biostrips in the Treatment of Highway Storm Water Runoff
- Misty Scharff, Anna Lantin, and Ed Othmer

Design and Field Testing of Non-Proprietary Litter Control Devices to Comply with the Los Angeles River Trash TMDL
- David Alderete and John Johnston

SESSION 26: WATER MANAGEMENT - III

SAWPA Integrated Water Resources Planning
- Mark Norton

Balancing Water Supply Needs and Public Trust Resources in the Santa Ynez River Watershed
- Matt Carpenter, Chip Blankenhorn, Kendra Loomis, Jean Baldrige, Scott Engblom, and Kate Rees

Facilities Planning Using a Wholistic Watershed Approach: The Los Angeles Experience
- Adel Hagekhalil, Heather Boyle, Judi Miller, and Reina Pereira

Reliability Through Diversification: San Diego County Water Authority Regional Water Facilities Master Plan
- Richard Pyle, John Economides, Jennefer Nakayama, and Paul Gebert

SESSION 27: RUNOFF CHARACTERIZATION

Investigation of Wet-Weather Pollution Contributions from Commonly Used Building Materials
- Melinda Lalor, Shirley Clark, and Richard Field

Dynamics of Particles in Highway Runoff
- Masoud Kayhanian, Sunny Li, and Simlin Lau

Particle Size Distribution in Highway Runoff
- Sunny Li, Masoud Kayhanian, and Simlin Lau

Characteristics of Stormwater Runoff from Highways in Lake Tahoe, California
- Kuen Tsay, Louis Regenmorter, Stefan L Schuster, and Masoud Kayhanian

SESSION 28: TMDLs - V

Networked Sensing of Nitrate in Support of Groundwater Quality Protection
- Thomas Harmon, T. Bendikov, J. Kim, Y. Park, and J. A. Saez

Evaluating Storm Water Impacts in Receiving Waters
- Charles Katz, Amy Blake, Bart Chadwick, Gunther Rosen, and Scott Steinert

WISKI-WQM - A Software Package for Combined Water Quantity and Water Quality Data Management
- Frank Schlaeger, Jürgen Stein, and Roland Funke

SESSION 29: MEETING FUTURE WATER DEMAND - I

Maintaining Innovation in Local Water Management and Conservation Program
- Ray Mokhtari, Deneice Cotton, and Tim Blair

A Different Perspective for Sustainable Management of a Declining Groundwater Supply in the High Plains
- Thomas L. Huntzinger and Nick Campas

Uncharted Waters: Negotiating Interlocal Collaboration for Municipal Water Supplies in Brown County, Wisconsin
- Laurel Phoenix

A Framework for Assessing Water Sustainability for Electric Power Generation on a Hydrologic Unit Scale
- Christine Lew, Bill Mills, and Chih-Fang Chung

SESSION 30: INTEGRATED WATER QUALITY AND QUANTITY MANAGEMENT

Meeting Water Quality and Quantity Objectives With an Innovative Well Design and Control System
- W. Greg Hamer and N. Thomas Sheahan

Analysis of Salinity Control Alternatives for the Rio Grande Project
- Mauricio Olaya and Charles Turner

Watershed Management Systems: Environmental Management Systems for Water Quality Protection at the Municipal Level
- Stanley J. Kabala

Delivering Clean Water to Developing Countries: Successes and Impediments
- John Dracup

SESSION 31: IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF URBANIZATION - II

Concrete Truth or Urban Legend? Thresholds Used in Characterization of the Degradation of Natural Systems in Response to Urbanization
- Amy Engstrom, Virginia Travers, and Juliet Thompson

Hydrologic Assessment of Connected Imperviousness in a Glacial Midwestern Watershed
- Paul Richards

Urbanization and Riparian Buffer Loss
- Alan Yeakley and Connie Ozawa

Long-Term Ammonia Dynamics and Fish Species Endangerment in the Upper Rio Grande
- Howard Passell, Clifford N. Dahm, and Edward J. Bedrick

SESSION 32: GROUNDWATER/SURFACEWATER MANAGEMENT

The Five Stages of Conjunctive Use: A Conceptual Model for Long-Term Watershed Water Resources Management
- Kelly Rowe

Integrated Groundwater - Surface Water Modeling and Planning for San Joaquin County
- Rehad Hossain and Brandon Nakagawa

The Conceptualization, Construction, and Calibration of the Integrated Northern Tampa bay Model
- Patrick Tara, Greg Ruskauff, and E. Houssenipour

Incorporation of Nitrate and Dissolved Gases During Artificial Recharge in the Mojave Desert, Warren Subbasin, San Bernardino County, California
- Jill Densmore, JK Bohlke, Tracy Nishikawa, Peter Martin, Dennis Clark, and Maria Isabel Pimentel

Glendale Arrowhead Ranch Recharge Facility
- Jeff Chaves, W.M. Greenslade, W.L. Grubbs, and R. Fletcher

SESSION 33: WATERSHED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT - MODEL APPLICATIONS

Decision Support Model for Environmental Assessments in Northern California Watersheds
- Chris Keithley and Rich Walker

Multi-Time Scale Stream Flow Predictions: The Support Vector Machines Approach
- Tirusew Asefa and Mariush Kemblowski

Calibration of HSPF with High Water Table Algorithms in South Florida
- Steve Lin and Yongshan Wan

Simplified Water Balance Methodology for the Estimation of Monthly Streamflows and Baseflows
- David M. Leone, Peter H. Baril, and Chad Cox

An Artificial Neural Network Approach for Forecasting Available Reservoir Water Storage for Irrigation in Semi-Arid Region
- Raquel Salazar Moreno, Mary Poulton, Emery Coppola, Ferenc Szidarovsky, and Ahdore Jacinto

SESSION 34: MEETING FUTURE WATER DEMAND - II

Effects of Climate Variability on Hydrologic Systems and Related Water-Supply Issues in the Southwestern United States
- Randall Hanson, Michael D. Dettinger, Mark W. Newhouse, and Jesse E. Dickinson

Membrane Technologies: A "Triple Threat" to Meet California's Water Supply Needs
- David Argo, Steve Burgos, Andrew Lazenby, and Brian Jordan

Augmenting Water Supplies Via Cloud Seeding - A Viable Water Resources Management Tool
- Mark Solak and Don Griffith

Forecasting Daily Municipal Water Demand
- Alaa Aly and Nisai Wanakule

Desalination and Coastal Power Plants: Conflicting Environmental Policy and the Law of Unintended Consequences
- Jeffrey Harvey and Larry Pucell

SESSION 35: WETLANDS RESTORATION AND PROTECTION

A First Look at Anthropogenic Effects in Mangroves in La Parguera, Puerto Rico
- Harvey Minnigh, T. Frontera Pizá, G. I. Ramírez Toro, Idelis Sànchez, Wilma Vargas, Mark Brinson, and Robert Christian

Using Decision Tree Models to Target Wetland Restoration Sites for Watershed-Level Water Quality Improvement
- Neal Flanagan and Curtis J. Richardson

Hydrological and Ecological Restoration of Mallory Swamp and the Upper Steinhatchee River Basin
- Charles Houder, Robert G. Heeke and Brian Kauffman

Hydrodynamic Simulation of Upland Flooding and Drainage Impacts - Chinook River Estuary Restoration
- Stephen Breithaupt, Tarang Khangaonkar, Elizabeth Roy, and John Axford

Integrated Hydrologic Modeling for Evaluating Wetland Design Alternatives
- Kenneth Trout, Patrick Tara, and Mark Ross

SESSION 36: DROUGHT MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION - I

Update on the Colorado Drought and Water Supply Assessment Project
- Tracy Bouvette, Nina Nichols, and Brad Lundahl

Season to Save Community Conservation Challenge
- Calvin Finch, Janie Guzman, and Eddie Wilcut

Effectiveness of Irrigation BMPs for Conservation of the High Plains Aquifer
- John Andrews and Nyle Jordre

Affordable Peak Demand Irrigation Reduction Programs
- Karen Guz

SESSION 37: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND MODELING - I

Revised Rational Method Model to Predict Pollutant Mass Loading from the Highway Environment
- Masoud Kayhanian

Distributed Retention for Peak Runoff Control
- Paul Koch

Integration and Coupling Techniques of Two-Dimensional and One-Dimensional Hydraulic Models in Urban Stormwater Simulation
- Xing Fang and Dehui Su

SWIMMing Upstream: Continuous Hydraulic Modeling to Assess Fish Passage Barrier Conditions at Culverts on a Watershed Scale
- David O'Rourke

SESSION 38: TMDLs - VI

Implementation of EPA's 2001 Methylmercury Criterion
- David Dean and Penny A. Shamblin

Impact of New Stringent NPDES Wastewater Discharge Limits on the Use of Drinking Water Sources
- Rajagopalan Ganesh, Bradley B. Milner, Lawrence Y.C. Leong, Lynn Takaichi, and Dale Ducharme

Sanitary Sewer Overflows: A Complex Issue for Regulatory Policy
- Jonathan Bulkley

SESSION 39: CULTURAL ISSUES

Qanats and Other Water-Supply Tunnels: Different Cultures, Similar Solutions
- Bob Kent, W. Greg Hamer, G. Richard Rees, N. Thomas Sheahan, and Dave Palais

The Historic Water System of Mission San Diego de Alcala, San Diego County, California
- Bill White and Greg Cranham

Source Water Protection: Outreach to Tribes
- Glenn Totten

Assessing Cruise Ship Tourists Attitudes Towards Protecting the Panama Canal Watershed
- Brooke Thurau and Cem Basma

SESSION 40: LAKES AND PONDS - I

Reservoir Yield and Sediment Management, Fajardo Offstream Reservoir, Puerto Rico
- Gregory Morris

Continuous Seismic Profiling for Reservoir Sediment Characterization
- Gary Krizanich

Eutrophication of Tasek Lake of Garo Hills, Meghalaya (India) and its Management
- Arup Kumar Hazarika and Amalesh Dutta

SESSION 41: DROUGHT MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION - II

Multi-Region Water Supply Alternatives Analysis in a Probalistic Framework
- Deborah Hathaway, Karen MacClune, and Kevin Flanigan

An International Perspective on Maintaining Optimum Well Performance
- Andreas Wicklein and Jim Bailey

The Water Resources Agency as Delaware State Water Coordinator: Evaluation of an Academic-Public Partnership Approach to Drought Management
- Kevin Vonck

Water Pricing, Water Conservation, and Water Use
- Hugo A. Loaiciga

SESSION 42: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND MODELING - II

Probalistic Properties of Annual Maximum Water Surface Elevations and Maximum Flows in a Tide-Influenced Watershed
- Meifa Chen, Jack Vokral, Dana Gumb, Steve Wallander, and Sandeep Mehrotra

Characterization of Stormwater Runoff From Homogenous Land Use Types Using Pollutograph Sampling
- Eric Stein, Drew Ackerman, Andrea Steinberger, Liesl Tiefenthal, and Ken Schiff

Total Dissolved Solids in Storm Flow Reaching Streams in the Santa Ana Basin, California
- Robert Kent and Kenneth Belitz

Improving the Lead-Time and Accuracy of a Flood Alert System in an Urban Watershed
- Jude Benavides and Philip B. Bedient

SESSION 43: TMDLs - VII

Simulating Multiple-Source Contaminant Transport and Distribution in Estuaries
- Steven Costa, Kyle Winslow, David Wilson, and Barry Firth

Identifying Critical Sites of Combined Sewer Discharges to Small Urban Streams
- Roger J. Marino, Joseph P. Martin, and Marleen Troy

WARMF: A Watershed Modeling Tool for Onsite Wastewater Systems
- Laura Weintraub, C. W. Chen, R. A. Goldstein, and R. L. Siegrist

Water Quality Impacts From Selenium and Other Metals
- Lynn Van Every and Josh Romeis

SESSION 44: AGRICULTURAL HYDROLOGY

Demonstration of a Reactive Stream Stabilization Structure for Reducing Nitrogen Transport to Streams
- Kenneth Carlson and Chester Watson

Rotary Subsoiling Effectiveness on Runoff and Erosion in Dryland Wheat in Washington State
- John Williams, Stewart B. Wuest, William F. Schillinger, Hero T. Gollany, and Don K. McCool

Overland Flow Sediment and Nutrient Dynamics in Remnant Riparian Buffers
- Karl Williard and Jon E. Schoonover

SESSION 45: LAKES AND PONDS - II

Raw Water Reservoir Aeration - Town of Wadesboro, NC
- Jennifer Chambers-Heard, Marshall Taylor, Ellen Dosser-Huntley, and Hugh James

Re-Using Oxygen-Rich Off-Gas to Improve Source Water Quality at Lake Bard to Improve Regulatory Compliance and Treated Water Quality at the Lake Bard Water Filtration Plant
- Steve Fiori, Donald Kendall, Jean Debroux, and Craig Thompson

Performance Evaluation of the Mounted Oxygenation Bilateral-Tube Instrument (MOBI) in the Stockton Deep Water Ship Channel
- Thomas Trexler and Russell T. Brown

Restoration of a Small Lake Using Sediment Excavation in Northern New Jersey, USA
- Michael Sebetich and Joseph Spellman

SESSION 46: WATERSHED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT: CASE STUDIES - I

Urban Watershed Restoration: Limits and Opportunities
- Mark Maimone and Brian Marengo

A Regional Management Plan for the Merrimack River Watershed
- Beth Rudolph, Kirk Westphal, Gary Mercer, Barbara Blumeris, and Harold Costa

Watershed Management for New York City's Croton Watershed
- Cindy How, Lee Wordsman, Amy Atamian, and Kimberlee Kane

Simulation of Streamflow as Affected by Climate Land Cover Changes Using Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS), Feather River Basin, California
- Kathryn Koczot, Anne Jeton

SESSION 47: STORMWATER INFLITRATION

Sun Valley Watershed Management Plan
- Vik Bapna

Low-Impact Retro-Fits to Reduce Stormwater Runoff in an Urban Neighborhood
- Peter Sturtevant, Patrick Graham, Bill Derry, and Darla Inglis

Evaluation of Infiltration on the Mojave River Through a Comparison of Aerial Photographs and Stream Gage Data, Victorville, CA
- Andrew Campbell

Stormwater BMP Infiltration - Real-Time Soil Moisture Monitoring Using Time Domain Reflectometers
- Michael Bower and Suzanne Dallman

SESSION 48: TMDLs - VIII

Dredging Program in a Chilean Port Project - Dealing with Diatomite Sediments
- Ernesto Monter and Robert H Montgomery

Geo-Environmental Impacts of Abadan Island of Southwest Iran
- Arash Barjasteh and Jabbar Hemadi

Environmental Standards for Water Supply Planning in Bangladesh
- Jason Levy, Bilqis Amin Hoque, Keith W. Hipel, and D. Marc Kilgour

Turbidity Duration in Salmonid-Bearing Streams, North Coastal California
- Randy Klein

SESSION 49: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND DELTA

Successful Design for Wetland Restoration in the San Francisco Bay
- Michael Rafferty, Kinsley Binard, Michelle Orr, Jeffrey Haltiner, and Charles Andrews

Developing a Watershed-Based Program for Habitat Restoration in the San Pablo Watershed, California
- Louis Regenmorter, Karen Rippey, Tom Gandesbery, and Marc Holmes

Providing Drainage to an Impaired Agricultural Region in Central California: The San Luis Drain Project
- Perri Standish-Lee, Keane Sommers, and Monique de Barruel

Californian Regional Water Resources Facilities - Stranded Assets: Solutions to Recapture Investments and Water Supply Reliability Through Policy Changes and Commitments
- Kelly Rowe

SESSION 50: LAKES AND PONDS III

Colorado RIver Restoration for the Benefit of Threatened and Endangered Colorado River Fish
- Peggy Bailey

The Legacy Ecosystem Management Framework: From Theory to Application in the Detention Pond Case Study
- Michael Murrell Stevenson

The Milfoil Weevil (Euhrychiopsis lecontei) as a Eurasian Watermilfoil Control Technique for Water Supply Reservoirs
- Martin Hilovsky and Robert M. Hartzel

Ralston Afterbay Reservoir Sediment Reduction Program: Planning and Environmental Review
- Jeff Lafer and Bill Mitchell

SESSION 51: WATERSHED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT: CASE STUDIES II

Virginia Water Policy e-Dialogue: Prioritize the Management of Virginia's Water Resources
- Tamim Younos, R. Erchul, H. Gregori, D. Ehreth, J. Miles, T. Gray, J. Frye, R. Hill, M. Foreman and A. DeHart

Value-Focused Thinking in Watershed-Management Planning in Kona, Hawai'i
- Denise E. Mills and Mark A. Ridgley

Strategic Plan for Safe, Clean and Green Regional Environmental Corridors
- Karen Stafford-Brown, Leslie Calderon, Karen Leone de Nie, Samantha Medlock, Kevin Spath, and Patricia Lambert

Integrating Spatially Referenced Socio-Economic and Biophysical Data for Watershed Planning: Lessons From the Experience in Australia
- Allan Curtis, Ian Byron, and Jacinta MacKay

SESSION 52: SURFACEWATER/GROUNDWATER/AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS

A Multi-Objective Geostatistic/Sensitivity Methodology for Assessing Monitoring-Well Networks Designed to Protect Wetland and Lake Water Levels
- Marsh Lavenue, Tanya Unger Holtz, Nisai Wanakule, and Alaa Aly

Responses of Shallow Groundwater to Changes in River Stage in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
- Bryan Grigsby, Steven Lindblom, Laura Wilcox, Robert S. Bowman, and Page Pegram

Spatial and Temporal Data Analysis for an Integrated Surface and Groundwater Model of West-Central Florida
- Mark Ross, Ken Trout, and Patrick Tara

Analysis of Depth-Dependent Ground-Water Chemistry to Identify Possible Effects of Pumping on Coastal Riparian Vegetation, San Diego County, California
- Clinton Church and Wesley R. Danskin

Surface Water Nitrate Concentrations Within a Banded Carbonate and Siliclastic Watershed, Lititz Run Pennsylvania
- Daniel P. Ramirez and L. Lynn Marquez

SESSION 53: GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT

Numerical Modeling to Aid in Management of Groundwater Basin
- Brian Heywood, Robert Fitzgerald, and Jim Ford

Arsenic and Arsenic(III) in Tap Water Samples: Implications for Exposure in Churchill County, Nevada
- Mark Walker, Marnee Benson, Mae Gustin, and Douglass Shaw

Assessing the Susceptibility for Contamination of Aquifers as a Source of Drinking Water for Two Public Water Systems in the San Joaquin Valley of California
- Michael Wright and Kenneth Belitz

Predicting 2020 Groundwater Conditions Using a Regional Groundwater Flow Model
- Tim Sovich

Use of a Groundwater Numerical Model for Water Resources Management in the West San Jacinto Groundwater Basin
- Fakhri Manghi and Behrooz Mortazavi

SESSION 54: CLIMATE CHANGES, HYDROLOGIC MODELING AND FLOODPLAIN MAPPING

Predicted Change in Hydrologic Conditions Along the Upper Peace River in West-Central Florida Due to a Reduction in Ground-Water Withdrawals
- Ron Basso

Impact of Global Warming on Water Quality in Connecticut River Watershed
- Eric Marshall and Timothy Randhir

Uses of LIDAR in Flood Plain Management: Beyond Flood Insurance Studies
- John Grounds, Elle L. Anderson, Brandon Grimm, and William B. Meyer

A Bivariate Extreme Value Model for Flood Modeling
- Jose Raynal

SESSION 55: WATER POLICY, PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Water: The Oil of the Future
- Jim Clark

The 2002 Klamath River Fish Die-Off: Facts, Falsehoods, and Politics
- Dan Keppen

New Water Legislation
- Fidelis Ateh-Awung Folifac

SESSION 56: EDUCATION/OUTREACH/COMMUNICATION - I

Trust and the Water Industry
- Mary McDaniel and Roslyn A. Case

Public Outreach - Good Science Is Not Enough
- Tom Wall

Web-Based Tools for the Classroom
- Tabitha Chakwenya-Madzura

Willamette River Vision
- Stephanie Moret

SESSION 57: RIPARIAN AND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS - I

Management of Urban Riparian Areas
- Connie Ozawa and Alan Yeakley

Restoration of Incised Stream Channels
- Jeffrey Haltiner and Christie Beeman

Lessons Learned from Designing Stream Restoration Projects
- Will Harman

Implementing Stream Habitat Enhancements for Southern California Steelhead Within the Endangered Species Act Framework
- Matt Carpenter, Chip Blankenhorn, and Scott Engblom

SESSION 58: TMDLs - IX

Stream and Riparian Assessment for TMDL Implementation Plan
- Dani Wise and Karen Hall

A Decision-Support Tool for Managing Nutrient Export in the Santa Clara River Watershed
- Arturo Keller, Yi Zheng, Joel Herr, and Carl Chen

A Water Quality Treatment BMP Decision Matrix for TMDL Implementation
- Michael Schmidt, Patrick Victor, and Shayne Wood

Development of Integrated Procedure for Taihu Lake Basin Management Using BASINS Model
- Zaheer Iqbal

SESSION 59: WETLANDS

The Importance of Wetland Monitoring: A Case Study of a Restored Wetland in Norco, California
- Benjamin Springer

Will the Wetlands Get Wet Enough?: Hydraulic and Floodplain Analyses for Two San Diego County Wetland Mitigation Sites
- A. Jake Gusman, Kurt Baron, and Mark Tucker

Methodology for Assessment of Sites for Waterfowl Habitat Potential
- Cat Shrier

SESSION 60: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT

Hybrid Statistical Flow Projection Method: A Tool for Decision Makers in Risk Assessment
- Tony Park and Seema Chavan

Kapok Wetland & Floodplain Restoration Project
- Terry Finch and Walid Hatoum

Pre-Approved Management Programs Make Phase II Permitting Easier for Regional Participants in North Central Texas
- Keith Kennedy

An Economic Impact Evaluation of Proposed Storm Water Treatment for Los Angeles County
- James Moore, Peter Gordon, Harry W. Richardson, John Kuprenas, and Jiin-Jen Lee

SESSION 61: EDUCATION/OUTREACH/COMMUNICATION - II

Opportunities for Community and University Partnerships in Environmental Restoration
- Camilla Saviz

Water Resources Collection of the GROW Digital Library
- William Rasmussen and Muniram Budhu

MSU-WATER: Michigan State University's "Watershed Action Through Education and Research" Initiative
- Jo Latimore and Daniel B. Hayes

Building a New Constituency for Watershed Protection: The Role of the Watershed Roundtable
- Christine Olsenius

SESSION 62: RIPARIAN AND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS - II

Physical Assessment of Stream Restoration Projects
- Dani Wise, Karen Hall, and Barbara Doll

An Assessment of Nitrogen Leaching Below Riparian Autumn-Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) Stands in Southern Illinois
- Jennie Church and Karl W. J. Williard

A Regional Regression Approach for Developing Flow Characteristics of Ungaged Streams
- John Tracy and Andrew Rost

Implementing an Adaptive Management Program for the Everglades Restoration Plan
- Stuart Appelbaum

SESSION 63: WATERSHED MODELING

San Jacinto Watershed Nutrient Modeling
- Mark Norton

Application of Paleo-Climate Data to Water Planning and Management
- Karen MacClune and Deborah Hathaway

Long-Term Variation in Rainfall and its Effect on Peace River Flow in West-Central Florida
- Ron Basso and Richard Schultz

Basin-Scale Water Management and Forecasting by Multisensor Data Fusion and Neural Networks
- Abedalrazq Khalil and Mac McKee

SESSION 64: SEDIMENTATION AND GEOMORPHOLOGY IMPACTS

Evaluation of the Long-Term Impacts of Urbanization on a Piedmont Headwater Stream: A Comparison of Physical, Biological, and Chemical Indicators of Response
- Ted Mikalsen, Robert L. Bourne, and Adam Sukenik

The Utility of Scale in Geomorphology and Sedimentation Studies
- Stephanie Moret, Greg Savage, and Mary Louise Keefe

A Rational Method for Prediction of the Debris Yield Incorporating Storm and Wildfire Events
- Jang (Jay) Pak and J.J. Lee

SESSION 65: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND DRAINAGE PLANNING AND DESIGN

An Interactive Approach to Countywide Stormwater Management Planning to Answer: What Will We Do, Who Will Do It, and When?
- Jeff Wickenkamp and Ward S. Miller

Flood Mitigation Through a Narrow Campus Corridor
- Patrick Lach and Eric Loucks

Integrated Flood Management and Tidal Wetlands Restoration at Alameda Creek, California
- Vivian Lee, Stephane Asselin, Ralph Johnson, Francesca Demgen, and Carla Schultheis

Modeling the Impact of Downstream Lateral Flow on Culvert Hydraulics
- Roger Ruggles and Salvatore Caiazzo

SESSION 66: EDUCATION/OUTREACH/COMMUNICATION - III

A Center for Urban Watershed Studies - Oldham Pond, Northern New Jersey
- Richard Pardi, Michael Sebetich, and Karen Swanson

Bridging Environmental Information to Diverse Communities
- Joseph Orlins, DeMond Miller, John Hasse, Jess Everett, and Kauser Jahan

Public Outreach
- Ron Wildermuth

Development of an Integrated Stream Health Index for the Assabet Watershed
- Suzanne Flint

SESSION 67: RIPARIAN AND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS - III

Landuse Effects and Habitat Functions of Riparian Ecosystems
- Paul Ekness and Timothy Randhir

The Role of Riparian Areas in Mitigating Landscape Level Influences: An Empirical Study for Application to Urban Planning
- Vivek Shandas

SESSION 68: DESALTING OCEAN WATER AND GROUNDWATER

The Irvine Desalter Project: Cleaning-up the TCE Plume at MCAS El Toro
- Steve Malloy, Steve Tedesco, and Gerry Filteau

Arlington Desalter - A Long Journey from Groundwater Cleanup Project to a Domestic Water Source
- Steven Mains, Eldon Horst, Tony Gutierrez, and Gerry Caballero

Characterization of Uncertainties in the Economics of the Proposed Seawater Desalination Plant in the Gaza Strip
- Said Ghabayen and Mac McKee

Seawater Desalination in San Diego County
- F. Cesar Lopez, Jr.

SESSION 69: NONPOINT SOURCE IMPACTS AND RECEIVING WATER CHARACTERIZATION

Influence of Shade on Maximum Water Temperature for Three Northeastern Oregon Streams
- William Krueger, John Williams, Michael Borman, and Larry Larson

A Regression Method to Estimate the Distribution of Atrazine and its Alternatives in Surface Water
- Aklilu Tesfamichael and Jagath J. Kaluarachchi

Quantifying the Water Quality Effects of Urban Runoff from the Las Vegas Valley on the Las Vegas Wash, Nevada
- Xiaoping Zhou, Kimberly S. Zikmund, Peggy Roefer, and James F. LaBounty

Chemical Transport in a Small Rill Simulating Furrow Irrigation
- Jose Miguel Reichert, Chi-hua Huang, and Alfredo Borges de Campos

SESSION 70: STORMWATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLANNING

Storm Water Strategies For Mitigating Bacteria and Nutrient Loads in Highly Sensitive Receiving Waters With Complex Hydrologic Conditions - A Case Study in Malibu, CA
- Ken Susilo

Aquascape Solutions for Stormwater Management and Treatment
- Bruce Phillips

Evaluating Existing Military Facilities for the Application of Low Impact Development Controls
- Timothy Hare, Dan Medina, and Linda L. Cole

SESSION 71: SOURCE WATER PROTECTION

The Importance of Water Supply Redundancy in Addressing System Vulnerability
- Kristine McCaffrey, Donald R. Kendall, Bruce Fischer, and Sandra Carlson

Source Water Assessments and Contamination Prevention: Program Measures
- Marjorie Copeland

GIS-Based Ground Water Risk System in Escambia County, Florida
- Tain-Shing Ma, Thomas R. Pratt, and Roger A. Countryman

Florida's Small Water System Public Health Protection Program
- Bart Bibler and Bob Vincent

Groundwater Source Assessment and Protection in North Orange Area of Riverside, California
- Zahra Panahi and Aladdin Shaikh

SESSION 72: SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS

Investigation of Sediment Transport in the Upper Yellowstone River for a Cumulative Effects Study
- Stephen R. Holnbeck

Surface Water Diversion for Wetland Restoration and Wellfield Yield Enhancement
- Deborah Daigle, Kathleen Coates and Ron Basso

The Value of a Near-Field Hydrodynamic Model in a Watershed Modeling Framework
- Seung Ah Byun, Chris Carter, and Mark Maimone

Regional Trends in Flashiness in River Hydrology
- R. Peter Richards, David B. Baker, and Timothy T. Loftus

SESSION 73: WATER BANKING

ASR as a Drought Management Tool
- Cat Shrier

Modeling of a Aquifer Storage and Recovery System Impacted by Natural Sources of Groundwater Contamination
- Jason Fisher, Thomas C. Harmon, and Maria Echarte

A Phased Approach to Designing Groundwater Recharge in a Planned Suburban Wetlands/Riparian Habitat
- David Bolin and Eric Fordham

Long Beach Conjunctive Use Project - Converting Existing Wells to ASR Wells
- Eric Leung, Ana Ananda, and Mark Wuttig

Implementation of the Las Posas Basin Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project - A Case Study
- Susan Mulligan and Donald R. Kendall

SESSION 74: WATER QUALITY DUJOUR

Polar Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Drinking Water and Wastewater in Southern California
- Greg Loraine and Mark Pettigrove

Perchlorate in Groundwater in the Southern High Plains of Texas
- Ken Rainwater, Andrew Jackson, Tom Lehman, Todd Anderson, Moira Ridley, and Richard Tock

Selenium-Contaminated Groundwater and Surface Water in a Highly Urbanized Watershed
- Terri S. Reeder

Examination of Arsenic and Chromium Kinetics in Aquifers Underlying the Western Mojave Desert
- Curtis P. Plotkin, Antonino Monterrosa, Pedro Ramirez, John Izibicki, and Crist Khachikian

Perchlorate vs. MTBE: Similarities, Differences and Learning from our Past
- Jon Rohrer, Matt Hagemann, Rich Chandler, and Steve Ross

SESSION 75: STORMWATER BMPs PERFORMANCE

Mill Creek Watershed Quality Management Project: Natural and Mechanical Stormwater Treatment Methods
- Doug Smith and Bruce Koehler

BMP Performance Testing for TMDL Implementation Planning
- Mark Boner and Michael Burgess

BMP Performance in Controlling Sediment Discharges from Small Construction Sites
- Melinda Lalor, Robert Angus, Ken Marion, Janna Owens, and Shirley Clark

Evaluation of the Treatment Effectiveness of Sand Traps in Lake Tahoe, California
- Scott Meyer, Charles O'Neill, Kuen Tsay, Louis Regenmorter, and Masoud Kayhanian

Grass Drainage Ditch Effectiveness in Highway Runoff Pollution Reduction in the Greater Vancouver Regional District, Canada
- George Onwumere, S.O. (Denis) Russell, and Mike Kent

ABSTRACT PROCEEDINGS OF THE AWRA 2003 ANNUAL WATER RESOURCES CONFERENCE