Water Resources Report — Hydrological Management Tool in the Júcar System

Joaquín Niclós Ferragut^1,2, Miguel Rodríguez Zurita³, and Carlos Barber Ballester¹

1. Júcar River Basin District, Spain

2. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

3. Tragsatec, Spain

Abstract: The Júcar river has a distinctly Mediterranean behavior, characterized by a large disparity between the ordinary and extraordinary flows, and extreme flow regime of high magnitude floods causing flooding secular overflows the banks and sometimes, they cause damage considerable in the fields and towns, as produced in 1982.

Given this situation it became necessary to implement Automatic Hydrological Information System (SAIH), allowing a hydrologic-hydraulic data in real time, and predict the future behavior of the basins. All Júcar basin is divided into sub-basins, in which are the Remote Stations (RE) and Concentration Points (CP). The Basin’s Data Processing Centre (BDPC) periodically interrogates hubs, and being the end of the data point is responsible for its organization and management. This network has a hierarchical structure with two levels: RE communicates with the CP via secondary network protocol CP and transfer the information to BDP primary network protocol. The aim of this presentation is to present a management tool whose application makes it possible the optimization and

improvement of water resources in the Júcar River.

Key words: hydrological information; systems management; means; functional software