Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E)

This Workplan lays out an approach and scope for assessing the viability of Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations at Seven Oaks Dam. In 2023, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District initiated a partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, to form a multi-agency Steering Committee which seeks to answer a key question: Can current and improved forecasts of individual and series of landfalling atmospheric rivers and other storm types and their associated precipitation, temperature, and runoff be used to inform flexible reservoir operations at Seven Oaks Dam to increase water conservation and to enhance and protect habitat through strategic releases, while maintaining flood risk management objectives?