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DEVELOPMENT OF A MORE
COMPREHENSIVE WATER PLANNING
MODEL FOR THE STATE OF WYOMING

by
Duane D. Stroup

A thesis
Submitted to the Department of Civil and
Architectural Engineering and the Graduate School of
The University of Wyoming in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements
for the Degree of

MASTER OF SCIENCE
in
CIVIL ENGINEERING

Laramie, Wyoming
May 1993

Stroup, Duane D., Development of a More Comprehensive Water
                  Planning Model for the State of Wyoming,
                  Masters Thesis, Department of Civil
                  Engineering, University of Wyoming,
                  Laramie, WY, May 1993
Two programs (WIRSOS and HYDROSS) for modeling river systems were compared for use by the state of Wyoming. It was found that the Wyoming Integrated River System Operation Study (WIRSOS) planning model best fit the needs of the state. However, it was also found that WIRSOS did not completely satisfy every aspect of river system modeling. In fact, HYDROSS, the program of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, is much superior at modeling the operation of reservoirs in a river system, but HYDROSS is lacking in several other areas. Therefore, to improve the performance of WIRSOS, many of the reservoir modeling capabilities of HYDROSS were programmed into the WIRSOS model. The improved WIRSOS program models river systems with greater accuracy and provides for a more detailed analysis of water issues within the state of Wyoming.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to express his sincere gratitude to several people who provided assistance, advice, and support during the research and writing of this thesis. To Dr. Victor Hasfurther, thesis director, for his patience and knowledge in guiding my research, his help was invaluable. I give a special thanks to Becky Mathisen of the Wyoming State Engineers Office, who gave me her expertise on how the WIRSOS program was supposed to operate. Additionally, to Dr. Thomas Edgar and Dr. Thomas Wesche, committee members, for their time spent evaluating this thesis, and for the helpful comments they made. Most of all to my friends and family for their moral support that gave me the strength to return to school and finish this thesis.

Funding was provided by the Wyoming Water Resources Center and the Wyoming Water Development Commission.

Chapter I - Introduction
Chapter II - Literature Review
Chapter III - Modifications to WIRSOS
Chapter IV - Description of WIRSOS
Chapter V - Testing the Model
Chapter VI - Summary and Recomendations
References and Appendix

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