Flood Control Operations and Optimization: A Case Study for Bonny Reservoir, Colorado

摘要

Flood control operations for reservoirs are evaluated by discussing existing policies and optimization and simulation techniques. A case study for Bonny Reservoir, Colorado, routes five generated storm hydrographs through the reservoir considering the influence of the downstream reservoir. The storms are routed by a computer algorithm which simulates the standard operating rule and by a dynamic programming optimization algorithm. The resulting releases were lower for the more extreme storm events and higher for the less extreme storm events with the dynamic programming algorithm than the simulated standard operating rule.