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Project 6: Surface Water Assessment and Management of the PGDP Facility and the Surrounding Wildlife Management Area

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PROJECT MANAGER

Lindell Ormsbee, Director, Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and Environment, University of Kentucky

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Mike Kemp, Professor, Murray State University

Andy Kellie, Professor, Murray State University

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BACKGROUND

A comprehensive surface water model has not been developed for the PDGP or the surrounding wildlife management area.  In addition, a general mass balance model for process waters does not exist.  This project will focus on the development of such models for use in subsequent management plan development and TMDL development.

GOALS

1. Provide a hydrologic characterization of the PGDP and surrounding Western Kentucky Wildlife Management Area.
2. Develop TMDLs for cited constituents for Little and Big Bayou Creeks

OBJECTIVES

1. Provide routine interface with UK project manager through email and/or telephone, and when necessary, through written correspondence or actual meetings.
2. Develop and calibrate continuous simulation hydrologic models for both the Big Bayou and Little Bayou Creek watersheds using the HSPF watershed model.
3. Develop a mass balance (spreadsheet) model for the PGDP facility identifying and incorporating all significant water inputs and outputs. 

DELIVERABLES

1. Calibrated HSPF models for both Big Bayou and Little Bayou Creeks,
2. A report describing the development and calibration of the models.
3. A spreadsheet mass balance model for the PGDP facility.
4. A report describing the development and use of the mass balance model

TIME FRAME

Two years

TEAM MEMBERS

Lindell Ormsbee
Mike Kemp
Andy Kellie

REPORTS

Total Maximum Daily Load Development Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant: Background and Hydrology

Total Maximum Daily Load Development Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant: Water Budget

Total Maximum Daily Load Development Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant: Existing Data Review

Total Maximum Daily Load Development Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant: Data Supplemental Review

 

KRCEE is a collaborative effort of Kentucky universities and is administered by the University of Kentucky.