A New Vision for Reservoir Routing with Different Scenarios: A Case Study of Haditha Dam Reservoir /Western Iraq.

Abstract

his new methodology in the study is concerned with finding the optimal and safest operating level of the reservoir that corresponds to the amount of discharges coming out of the Haditha Dam and determine the optimal and safest operational level and in return produces less submerged areas and less contact with the rock exposés of the formations in the study area. A flowchart has been developed for the follow-up methodology and this new and innovative methodology for flood tracking and can be applied to all types of reservoirs in the world, the process of follow-up in this study represents a new and modern innovative method that was not used previously, and several hypotheses were adopted as a basis for the follow-up process, and three mathematical models were used for the purpose of the follow-up process, namely, the equation for determining the amount of demand in the downstream in order to find out the amount of water that is wasted, and the equation of the level-storage in a modern dam reservoir to know the amount of storage achieved against Each level, and the ratio relationship - the size of the storage of the (assumed) Baghdadi Dam, whose results were derived from the geometric analysis, and the calculation of the storage difference for the process of follow-up in several ways and finding the relationship between them and the level difference and finding sources of fluctuation and variation in these readings and suggesting several causes for them.