# Presentation: 383579

## National Water Management Center

**National Water Management Center**

## Established 1995  South Central Regional Water Management Center

National Water Management Center in 1998

**Established 1995  South Central Regional Water Management Center**
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**National Water Management Center in 1998**

**NWMC**

## NWMC Functions

- Direct technical assistance to states
- Water resources planning
- Technology transfer and delivery
- Water policy interpretation and Program Support
- Partnering and Joint Ventures

## Provide Assistance to all States and territories  

**Completed or Ongoing Consultative**
**Assistance**

**NWMC**

**Notes:**
USDA homepage
NRCS homepage
NWMC homepage
Business Documents
About the National Water Management Center
Accomplishment Reports
Business Plans
Personnel
Name
Address
E-mail / Voice com
Education
Experience
Success Stories
UAPB partnership
Successful watershed / aquifer / water-quality projects
Technical Documents
Ground-water / water-quality / nutrients (manure)
Current Activities
Hydrologic unit mapping
Red River Basin study
Research needs
Customer Feedback
FY 97 customer feedback results
Request for assistance form
Customer satisfaction feedback form
Web page feedback form
Other Water Links
South Central federal legislative representatives sites
USDA-NRCS sites
Other federal gov sites
South Central region - State gov sites
Educational institutes
Other web sites of interest

## NATIONAL WATERMANAGEMENT CENTER

**Participating**

**Organizations**

**NRCS**

**Internal**

**Customers**

- Federal

- State

- Universities

- Others

-  State

- Specialists

- Field Staff

- Reg Tech/Water

- Res Teams

- State/Reg BOD

- Sci & Tech

- Consortium

**Expertise**

- Agronomy

- Ecology

- Archaeology

- Civil Engineering

- Conservation Planning

- Environmental Engineering

- Geohydrology

- Geomorphology

- Ground Water

- Hydrology & Hydraulics

- Irrigation Engineering

- Water Quality

- Watershed Planning
- Economics

## Water Quality

**Water Quality Issues**
**Water Quality Model Support**
**NLEAP, SWAT, WEND AnAGNPS, GLEANS**

## Ground-Water

** ****Aquifer Evaluations**
** ****Recharge and **
**    ****Surface-water **
**    ****Interaction**
** ****Water Quantity**
** ****Water Quality**
** ****Modeling**

## Water Management

**Water Conservation**
**Project Planning**
**Off Stream Storage**
**Irrigation System Design**
**Drainage System Design**
**WM Computer Models**
**Core4 Plus WM**

## Hydraulics & Hydrology and Stream & Wetland Restoration

**Computer Model Support - TR-55, TR-20, SITES, HECRAS, UNET**
**Hydraulic Modeling**
**Stream Restoration Issues**
- Geomorphic Approaches to Channel Stabilization
- Regional Curve Development
- Bioengineering

## Cultural Resources

** ****National Historic Preservation Act**** **
** ****NWMC assists State Offices in protecting and conserving our nation’s cultural heritage.**

## Watershed/Rehabilitation Policy and Program Support

**PL-566**
**PL-534**
**Rehabilitation **
**Peer Reviews**
**Training**
**EWP**
**FPMS**
**GIS Applications**

## Watershed/Rehabilitation Policy and Program Support

**AGING WATERSHED**
**INFRASTRUCTURE**

- Many of the 10,000 NRCS assisted dams are reaching their life expectance

## Environmental Compliance

**National Environmental Policy Act**
**Endangered Species Act**

## Environmental Compliance

**Clean Water Act**
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## OBTAINING NWMC ASSISTANCE 

**All NWMC activities are in response to customer identified**** need and/or request.  Majority of projects based on requests from:**
**State specialists**
**Regional Initiatives**
**NHQ Initiatives**

## david.heffington@ar.usda.gov(501)210-8923http://wmc.ar.nrcs.usda.gov

_**[david.heffington@ar.usda.gov](mailto:david.heffington@ar.usda.gov)**_**(501)210-8923****http://wmc.ar.nrcs.usda.gov**