COLLEGE STATION — The Texas Water Resources Institute’s Natural Resources Training Program will host the Water Rights Analysis Package Fundamentals Short Courses July 28-29 and Aug. 4-5 in College Station.
The two-day course will be from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. July 28 and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. July 29. The course will be held at the Texas Water Resources Institute Lab 212, 1500 Research Parkway.
The course is designed for engineers and scientists employed by water agencies and consulting firms, said Nikki Dictson, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program specialist for the institute in College Station and coordinator of the training program.
“The training is oriented toward new Water Rights Analysis Package, or WRAP, users but will also be beneficial for those with past experience who would like to refresh their skills,” she said.
The Water Rights Analysis Package is a generalized modeling system used for simulating the development, management, allocation and use of the water resources of a river basin. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Water Availability Modeling System consists of the modeling system and datasets for all of the river basins of Texas.
Dr. Richard Hoffpauir of Hoffpauir Consulting in College Station is the course instructor. Dictson said he has many years of experience in applying Water Rights Analysis Package in Texas and abroad.
“WRAP is used in regional and statewide planning, preparation and approval of water right permit applications, system operations studies and various other river/reservoir system management activities,” Hoffpauir said.
Through lectures, discussions and computer modeling exercises, Hoffpauir said, he will cover the software package’s monthly time step simulations and output processing, focusing on fundamentals.
“The objective is for course participants to obtain hands on experience with the modeling system and proficiency with basic water right analyses,” he said.
The course registration fee is $800, which includes manuals and meals. The class is limited to 10 people. The registration form is available on the training programs website at http://bit.ly/wrapshortcourse.
Participants will receive continuing education units for completion of the course. Attendees are responsible for their own hotel reservations and travel. Information regarding local accommodations is available at the institute’s Natural Resource Training Program website at http://naturalresourcestraining.tamu.edu/resources/.
The public domain software and reference, names of users and supplemental manuals are available at ceprofs.civil.tamu.edu/rwurbs/wrap.htm.
The institute is a unit of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, AgriLife Extension and Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
For more information, contact Dictson at ndictson@tamu.edu or 979.458.5915 or contact Hoffpauir at richard@rjhoffpauir.com.
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