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IrrigationViz: A Geospatial Visualization Application to Facilitate Irrigation Modernization

Kershaw, James D. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0009000635858690)·Jorgensen, Jed [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0009000634678276)·Koudelka, John [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000320701376)·Saulsbury, James [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000337925632)·Mosier, Thomas [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)]·Pacheco, Camilo Jose Bastidas [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:000000016634439X)·Davis, Cleve [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)]·Phillips, Tyler [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)]·Elliott, Shiloh [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)]·McDonald, John [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]·Woodford, Cole [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]·Avinash, Joshi [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]·Atkinson, Kevin [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]·Pham, Jennifer [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]·Bradford, James [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]·Davis, Brittany Y. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)]·Jackson, Pamela [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000197606399)·Cafferty, Kara G. [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000274340505)
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Irrigation water delivery infrastructure, such as canals and pipelines, are essential to agriculture in the Western U.S., yet many of these systems are reaching the end of their useful lives. Reinvestment can achieve a wide variety of benefits, from water conservation to energy savings or renewable energy generation. Modernization requires significant planning, design, and implementation funding which can be a challenge for many irrigation districts. Here, this paper introduces IrrigationViz, a web-based mapping application designed to help irrigation districts visualize and generate high-level cost and benefit estimates for infrastructure modernization projects. These estimates can help water managers identify projects that benefit from additional engineering resources and ultimately obtain funding. IrrigationViz includes map interactions, graphs, and visualization components to facilitate planning and communication to stakeholders and funders. IrrigationViz combines user-provided information about a water-delivery system with public datasets and basic engineering formulas to generate estimates of the benefits of reinvestment. Estimates include the amount of water seepage in earthen canals, potential hydropower generation associated with replacing a canal with a pressurized pipe, and pipe size recommendations. We found that hydropower generation estimates compared favorably with real world projects, but seepage loss estimates showed high variability relative to on-the-ground measurements

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Kershaw, James D. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0009000635858690), Jorgensen, Jed [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0009000634678276), Koudelka, John [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000320701376), Saulsbury, James [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000337925632), Mosier, Thomas [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)], Pacheco, Camilo Jose Bastidas [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:000000016634439X), Davis, Cleve [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)], Phillips, Tyler [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)], Elliott, Shiloh [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)], McDonald, John [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)], Woodford, Cole [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)], Avinash, Joshi [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)], Atkinson, Kevin [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)], Pham, Jennifer [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)], Bradford, James [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)], Davis, Brittany Y. [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)], Jackson, Pamela [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000197606399), Cafferty, Kara G. [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)] (ORCID:0000000274340505). 2025-12-29. IrrigationViz: A Geospatial Visualization Application to Facilitate Irrigation Modernization. https://doi.org/10.1061/jidedh.ireng-10676

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