GWMA models show groundwater future of Columbia Basin cities, towns, farms

With completion of the GWMA groundwater model, identifying solutions begins with the launch of two new modeling projects to assess municipal groundwater supplies and identify sustainable wells along the east low canal.

For the past two years, the Columbia Basin Ground Water Management Area (GWMA) has been developing a sophisticated computational groundwater model of the four Columbia Basin counties. This year the state appropriated $1.0 million for GWMA “to use the model to help answer critical questions about groundwater supply, recharge and aquifer storage,” according to Paul Stoker, GWMA ex...