| | Accession Number | 5004452 |
| | Title | Technical Assistance in developing an adaptive approach to hydropower management |
| | Project Description | We are working with a group of stakeholders, including USFWS, AL Department of Conservation, |
| | Alabama Power Company, Alabama Rivers Alliance, and others, to develop an adaptive approach |
| | for managing flow regimes at a large hydropower dam in Alabama. Stakeholders wish to negotiate |
| | a new flow regime at the dam that will provide better downstream ecological conditions than |
| | presently exist, without incurring unacceptable costs to the power utility or harm to users of the |
| | reservoir created by the dam. We are using recent research relating fish assemblage and |
| | population dynamics to flow regimes in the regulated reach, and other information, to guide |
| | construction of decision support models. We anticipate that stakeholders will use models to |
| | analyze alternative flow decisions with regard to probable outcomes and uncertainty associated |
| | with those outcomes. Stakeholders have targeted Spring 2001 for implementing a new flow regime |
| | at the dam. We will help design and implement appropriate monitoring so that stakeholders can |
| | assess outcomes relative to objectives, revise the models, and further modify flow regimes if |
| | necessary. |
| | Keywords | adaptive management, regulated rivers, |
| | Principal | Mary C Freeman, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: mary_freeman@usgs.gov; Elise R |
| | Investigators | Irwin, Alabama Cooperative Fish and Wildife Research Unit: ; |
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