Inventory of Interbasin Transfers in the United States
Inventory of Interbasin Transfers in the United States
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DOI：
10.1111/1752-1688.12561
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发表时间：
2017-10-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Dzombak, David A.
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作者：
Dickson, Kerim E.;Dzombak, David A.
跨流域调水（IBT）是跨流域边界的人为调水。这些转移用于根据供需情况分配水资源。这项工作的目标是量化美国 (U.S.) 存在的 IBT 数量，并检查 IBT 的分布以及与任何观察到的 IBT 集群相关的潜在原因。定义流域对于确定哪些传输符合流域间传输的资格非常重要。各州采用了多种定义，但没有联邦定义。最近的 IBT 国家研究由美国地质调查局 (USGS) 于 1985 年和 1986 年使用 USGS 水文单位代码 (HUC) 的盆地定义进行。为了建立 2016 年美国 IBT 清单并确定它们最常发生的位置，我们结合使用了 USGS 国家水文学数据库 (NHD) 和流域边界数据集 (WBD)。跨 HUC6 流域边界的转移被视为跨流域。通过NHD和WBD数据库的地理信息分析显示，美国境内跨越HUC6流域边界的人工水道共有2161条，IBT较为集中：佛罗里达州、德克萨斯州和北卡罗来纳州占已识别IBT总数的50%以上。对于某些州，已确定的 IBT 是本地聚集的。对这些集群的分析表明，建立 IBT 的原因有多种，包括人口、排水和农业因素。
Interbasin transfers (IBTs) are man-made transfers of water that cross basin boundaries. These transfers are used to distribute water resources according to supply and demand. The objectives of this work were to quantify the number of IBTs that exist in the United States (U.S.) and to examine the distribution of IBTs and potential causes associated with any observed clustering of IBTs. Defining basin was important to enable determination of which transfers qualify as interbasin. A variety of definitions are employed by states, with no federal definition. The most recent national studies of IBTs were conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1985 and 1986 using USGS Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) definitions of basins. To build a 2016 inventory of IBTs in the U.S., and to identify where they most commonly occur, the USGS National Hydrography Database (NHD) was utilized in conjunction with the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). Transfers across HUC6 basin boundaries were considered interbasin. Geographical information analysis with the NHD and WBD databases revealed that there are a total of 2,161 man-made waterways crossing HUC6 basin boundaries in the U.S. IBTs are somewhat concentrated: Florida, Texas, and North Carolina account for over 50% of the total identified IBTs. For some states, identified IBTs are locally clustered. Analysis of these clusters suggests a variety of reasons that IBTs have been built, including population, drainage, and agricultural factors.