Silver Creek & Big Wood River Water Quantity and Quality Forecasting Tools

Project Overview

The project is developing an interactive, online interface for water quantity and stream health modeling tools funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. It will help facilitate and further inform methods and strategies to mitigate late summer low flows and associated impacts on stream health in a working agriculture landscape. The models will provide improved forecast of total irrigation season streamflow, and newly developed models of stream temperature and water quality. These tools will also allow irrigators, water managers, and conservationists to explore relationships and understanding of how climate and water use decisions influence the system. Maintaining adequate late summer flows in Silver Creek is a major goal for stakeholders in the basin and the outcomes of this project will help to manage water resources for multiple benefits.

Wood River Dashboard

The Wood River Dashboard is an interactive set of tools to visualize observational data and modeling output in the Big Wood River Basin and Silver Creek.

This integrates data from a range of sources and provides timely information that may be used to inform water management in the basin. Use the toolbar to select the data or information category of interest, and you’ll be directed to a dynamic graph for visualization.

These tools provide real-time forecasts of upcoming irrigation season streamflow volumes in the Big Wood, Camas Creek, and Silver Creek. The Water Quality Tools are focused on stream health in Silver Creek as it pertains to the trout fishery. The data explorer allows you to dig into the datasets behind these models and explore changes over time.

Beta Version of Dashboard

Please contact the project team if something looks amiss as we iron out bugs! The data explorer tab in particular will be undergoing substantial revisions in the coming months.

View the dashboard