Laurance Lake CE-QUAL-W2 Model

Laurance Lake is a reservoir located in Hood River County, Oregon. It is located at the base on Mt. Hood in Oregon and discharges into the Middle Fork of the Hood River. The reservoir was constructed in 1968 for irrigation storage and has a capacity 3564 acre-feet at full pool. Since the river violates temperature standards, this study has been designed to construct a hydrodynamic and temperature model of Laurance reservoir in order to assess strategies for improving temperatures in the Middle Fork River.

The objectives of the study are then to:

• Develop a hydrodynamic and temperature model of Laurance Lake
• Calibrate the model to field data collected from November 2002 through Spring 2004
• Use the model to evaluate strategies for temperature improvement through operational or structural changes to Lake Laurance

For photos of Laurance Lake, click here