03. Reservoir

Location

The location of reservoirs is defined by a point shapefile. The name of the shapefile is defined in the reach_bmp section of the model configuration file. An example is given below.

[reach_bmp]

reservoir_shapefile = reservoir.shp

Attributes

The reservoir shapefile should have following attributes.

• id - The reservoir id
• op - operation date in yyyy-mm-dd format
• sa_em - Emergency surface area
• v_em - Emergency volume
• sa_pr - Principal surface area
• v_pr - Principal volume
• file - The external file name used for rating curve or outflow time series. File extension is not included.

Routing Method

The routing method is defined in a separate section [reservoir]. This section defines the flow routing method for reservoir and the flow data folder where the external files are located. For RAT_RES, MDO_RES and MMO_RES, external files are required. It’s assumed that these files are all in required csv format available in reservoir_flow_data_folder. The reservoir file column define the file name without extension. The system will read the data and import to bmp database. There are two settings in this section.

• reservoir_flow_routing - The flow routing method. Select one of RAT_RES, MDO_RES, MMO_RES, AAR_RES and TRR_RES.
• reservoir_flow_data_folder - The folder where the external flow data is saved.

An example is given below.

[reservoir]

reservoir_flow_routing = RAT_RES

reservoir_flow_data_folder = C:\stc\data\reservoir