Modeling and Managing Watersheds
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1 Presentation given the TransLinks workshop: Modeling and Managing Watersheds September 13-16, 2011 Kigali, Rwanda Umubano Hotel, Boulevard de l'umuganda This workshop was hosted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the United States Forest Service (USFS) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) This workshop was generously supported by the American people through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the terms of the TransLinks Cooperative Agreement No.EPP-A to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). TransLinks is a partnership of WCS, The Earth Institute, Enterprise Works/VITA, Forest Trends and the Land Tenure Center. The contents are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States government.
2 Modeling and Management Watershed Workshop: Universal Soil Loss Equation and InVEST Erika Cohen, Steve McNulty, Ge Sun, and Matt Wingard Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center Southern Research Station USDA Forest Service, Raleigh NC September 15, 2011,Kigali, Rwanda
3 Outline Universal Soil Loss Equation Overview InVEST Version 2.0
4 Excessive Erosion Consequences Loss of organic matter and nutrients which reduces fertility of land Degrades soil structure, reduces water holding capacity, which causes increased runoff of water and soil Increased sediment in rivers, streams, and oceans Kills certain aquatic species and prevents others from reproducing Decreases water quality for people
5 Universal Soil Loss Equation A = R * K * LS * C * P A: Average annual soil loss (Tons/ha*yr) R : Rainfall and runoff erositivity K: Soil erodibility LS: Slope length-gradient factor C: Crop and management Factor P: Support practice factor
6 USLE Universal Soil Loss Equation Developed at National Runoff and Soil Loss Data Center in 1954 by Science and Education Administration More than 10,000 plot-years runoff and soil loss data from 49 federal research projects throughout the United States
7 USLE Universal Soil Loss Equation Developed to allows users to predict the average rate of soil erosion for certain crop system, management techniques, and control practices on a site basis Designed to model sheet and rill erosion Does not predict deposition, sediment yield from gully, streambank, and streambed erosion Compare the rates predicted by the model to soil loss tolerances for the site leads to erosion management plans
8 USLE: DATA REQUIREMENT Digital Elevation Model Calculate slope for length slope gradient factor Rainfall Erosivity Precipitation Soil Erodibility Soils data Landuse Landcover Crop and management factor for each landuse type Support practice factor for each landuse type
9 USLE: Slope Length Gradient Factor Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Needed to calculate slope Input in WCS/USFS Project ASTER: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Resolution: 30 meters x 30 meters
10 USLE: R Factor Rainfall Erosivity (R ) Requirements Raster representing rainfall intensity SI Units: MJ*mm / ha*h*yr Input in WCS/USFS Project Calculated using Renard and Freimund (1994) Fournier Index Method US Customary Unit: Hundreds of foot * tonf * inch/acre * h *yr Convert to SI multiply by 17.02
11 USLE: K Factor Soil Erodibility (K) Requirements GIS raster representing ability of soil to move by rainfall and runoff SI Units: T*ha*h / ha*mj*mm Input in WCS/USFS Project Calculated using Wischmeier and Smith (1978) Soils should be average over the profile Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) Version 1.1 Spatial Resolution: 1 km x 1 km Database contains» Genera l info of soil units» Information on phases» Physical and chemical properties for topsoil (0-30 cm) and subsoil ( cm)
12 USLE: K Factor Soil Erodibility (K) = * m 1.14 * 10-8 *(12 a) + ( * (b 2)) + ( * (c 3)) m = (silt% + very fine sand%) * (100 clay%) a = organic matter % b = structure code: 1-4 1: very structured or particulate; 2: fairly structured; 3:slightly structured ; 4: solid c= profile permeability code: 1-6 1: rapid; 2: moderate to rapid; 3: moderate; 4: moderate to slow; 5: slow; 6: very slow
13 USLE: K Factor Soil Erodibility (K) Organic Matter (OM) HWSD provided percent organic carbon OM = Organic Carbon * Soil Permeability Code Permeability is the ability of soil to allow fluids to pass through it. No information on permeability is provided in HWSD Information was provided on soil texture Correlations between soil texture and infiltration rates
14 USLE: K Factor City of Knoxville, TN BMP Manual, May 2003 Same as Permeability Class USDA NRCS, Soil Quality Test Kit Guide July, 2001
15 USLE: C and P Factor (C) Cover and management factor The ratio of soil loss from land with a specified type and amount of cover to the corresponding loss from a clean tilled continuous fallow site. Fallow site has value 1, any ground cover reduces C factor and soil loss on the site. (P) Support practice factor It reflects the effects of practices that will reduce the amount and rate of the water runoff thus reducing the amount of erosion. Only used in row cropped landuse all other landuse given a value of 1.
16 USLE: C and P Factor Landuse /Landcover Needed for C and P Factor Input in WCS/USFS Project European Space Agency Globcover Dataset Year 2009 Resolution: 300 meters x 300 meters 22 landuse classes
17 InVEST : Sediment Retention Role of vegetation Keeps sediment from eroding Vegetation Retention Efficiency
18 Percent of the continental USA with a much above normal proportion of total annual precipitation from 1-day extreme events (more than 2 inches or 50.8mm) BW 7 Karl et al. 1996
19 Uwharrie National Forest Current Soil Erosion Map
20 Areas of Soil Erosion By 2030 On UNF
21 INVEST VERSION 2.0 OVERVIEW
22 Model InVEST: Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs Partners: Stanford University s Woods Institute for the Environment, University of Minnesota s Institute of the Environment The Nature Conservancy World Wildlife Fund
23 InVEST 2.0 Process and Results Biophysical Models Quantifies the amount of the ecosystem service (i.e. amount of sediment loss in tons) Economic Models Estimates the value for that ecosystem service (i.e. dollar cost of removing the sediment)
24 InVest 2.0 Design Tiered approach Toolbox ESRI ArcGIS ArcToolBox environment 11 models More in development Tallis et al., 2010
25 InVest 2.0 Software Requirement ARCGIS 9.3 (service pack 1 or 2) ArcInfo level license Spatial Analyst extension installed & activated Python 2.5 or higher Tool runs as scripts in ArcToolbox
26 InVEST 2.0 Models Wave Energy Model Coastal Vulnerability Model Marine Fish Aquaculture Aesthetic Quality Biodiversity: Habitat Quality & Rarity Carbon Storage and Sequestration Reservoir Hydropower Production Water Purification: Nutrient Retention Sediment Retention Model Managed Timber Production Model Crop Pollination
27 InVest 2.0 Sediment Retention Model What it does: Calculates the average annual soil loss from subwatershed Determines how much soil will arrive at a certain point Estimates the ability of each parcel to retain sediment Assess the cost of removing accumulated sediment on an annual basis Tallis et al., 2010
28 InVest 2.0 Sediment Retention Model How it does it: Universal Soil Loss Equation Sediment Retention Sediment Services»Avoided Sedimentation of Reservoirs»Water Quality Sediment Valuation
29 DATA REQUIREMENT Digital Elevation Model Rainfall Erosivity Soil Erodibility Landuse Landcover Watersheds Subwatersheds Biophysical Table Threshold Flow Accumulation Slope Threshold Sediment Threshold Table Sediment Valuation Table (optional)
30 DATA REQUIREMENTS Watershed/Subwatersheds Requirements Polygon shapefile Each watershed /subwatershed must have a unique id (integer) Columns with names ws_id and subws_id must appear in attribute table and contain the unique id number. Maximum extent of a watershed/subwatershed is 4000x4000 cells. Input in WCS/USFS Project Delineated from ASTER DEM using ArcGIS hydro tools Rwanda: wshed, 21; subws,295 Tanzania: 400 Zambia: 266
31 DATA REQUIREMENTS Biophysical Table Requirements dbf or mdb table with the following columns: lucode: a unique number representing each landcover class (integar) LULC_desc: a description of the landcover class usle_c: cover and management factor x 1000 usle_p: practice factor X 1000 sedret_eff: sediment retention value. A percent between Input in WCS/USFS Project Referred to literature to obtain values for c and p Referred to invest manual to obtain values for sediment retention
32 DATA REQUIREMENTS Threshold Flow Accumulation This number determines how many cells must flow into a cell before it is considered a stream. Can compare known stream layer to v-stream raster created by this threshold Requirement: integer number Value used: 1000(default) and 6500 Slope threshold This number represents the slope at which terracing becomes necessary. Requirement: integer number Value used: 75
33 DATA REQUIREMENTS Sediment Threshold Table Requirements (optional) dbf or mdb table with the following columns: ws_id: watershed unique id dr_time: remaining lifetime for the reservoir of interest. (integer) dr_deadvol: Volume of water below turbine than can not be released by gravity. Sediment can collect here. Number in cubic meters wq_annload: Allowed annual sediment loading in metric tons, a number set by water quality standards. Input in WCS/USFS Project Dredging or Water quality option Referred to literature to obtain values or used sample values from invest manual
34 DATA REQUIREMENTS Sediment Valuation Table (optional) Requirements dbf or mdb table with the following columns: ws_id: watershed unique id dr_cost: cost of sediment dredging in currency/cubic meter removed dr_time: remaining lifetime for the reservoir of interest. (integer) dr_deadvol: Volume of water below turbine than can not be released by gravity. Sediment can collect here. Number in cubic meters dr_disc: rate of discount over time span, used in net present value calculations wq_cost: cost of removing sediment for water quality or treating water in currency/cubic meter removed wq_time: same as dr_time Wq_disc: rate of discount over time span.
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