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BC Hydro
AQUARIUS Custom Workflow & Modeling Automation
BC Hydro Improves Efficiency & Management of Water Supply Forecasts
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Stephanie Smith, Manager, Hydrology & Technical Services
"AQUARIUS has allowed us to efficiently update statistical water supply forecasts on a daily basis. Since BC Hydro is largely a hydropower producer, our water supply forecasts are basically our revenue forecasts. With AQUARIUS we now have a long-term solution that is easy for our team to maintain and support.” |
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Northern California Power Agency
FERC Regulatory Compliance & Water Accounting
Northern California Power Agency Streamlines Regulatory Reporting
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Randy Bowersox, Manager, Hydroelectric Facilities
“All of our official water records are managed in AQUARIUS to streamline complex regulatory reporting requirements. Using AQUARIUS as our water accounting solution allows the NCPA to build accurate rating curves as well as manage and compute all of our water data in accordance with USGS standards – this is critical as a FERC cooperator interfacing with the USGS.”
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City of Lake Oswego
Stormwater, TMDL Monitoring & Regulatory Compliance
Improving Urban Water Resource Management with Real-Time Data Analysis
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David A. Gilbey, Water Quality Program Coordinator
“Despite governing a small municipality of 37,000, our policy makers want to know that they can trust our environmental data. By using AQUARIUS we can tell them that we use the same methodologies and tools to build our rating curves and process our environmental data as the USGS and Water Survey Canada. That provides credibility for the small fish in the pond.”
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Wyoming State Engineer’s Office Case Study
Surface Water Monitoring
Making Wyoming’s water data align with USGS water data, and increasing accuracy
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Loren Smith, Wyoming State Engineer’s Office
"We have improved the accuracy of our record, which is critical. Creating a reproducible, archiveable, legally defensible record—and being able to publish that record to USGS standards, which is the national standard for us. The Ratings Package stands out. It’s a tool that we’ve wanted forever, and we’ve finally found something that really does what we had in mind. It’s flexible—you just grab a line and adjust which curve you’re using, and how that curve is related to the measurements or the actual skeletal points. That wasn’t possible before."
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Coastal Carolina Case Study
Water Quality Analysis
Allowing for the exploration of massive quantities of water quality data
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Dr. Susan Libes, Waccamaw Watershed Academy
”AQUARIUS makes it possible for me to do things with data that otherwise would be impossible. With AQUARIUS I have all the data right at my fingertips. I never have to prune data or make decisions about which part of the data I should manipulate. AQUARIUS has empowered me to do so much more data exploration than I could have undertaken if I was stuck using Excel. I’m not aware of any other software on the market that does what AQUARIUS does.”
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South Dakota DENR Case Study
Hydrology & Environmental Analytics
Reproducible, defensible Empirical Modeling and extrapolation of water data for TDMLs
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Sean Kruger, South Dakota DENR
"Using the Empirical Model, we were able to calculate how often the lake’s water level would have actually increased over the last 30 years, under the proposed management plan. It really helped the board decide that it was better not to allow them to bring water in. This was my first attempt at using the Empirical Modeler, and the fact that in two days I could come up with a working model that recreates 30 years of data—it speaks very well of the software’s ease of use."
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