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The Dolores River occupies 241 miles of SW Colorado and is Dammed at the town of Dolores, CO, by the McPhee Dam.
On the left is a plot that compares Dolores River discharge with and without McPhee Dam releases. This plot was created with average daily cfs (cubic feet per second) data taken from USGS steam gages.
To see this data in the context of the entire DRAMS project, follow this link: https://www.fourcornerswater.org/dolores-river
This plot shows groundwater elevation over time compared to cfs. Each groundwater well in the study site is shown. It was necessary to incorporate two X axes into this chart, which added an extra challenge to the coding process.
The video to the right compiles over 7000 still images to create an animated chart that shows groundwater data over time, as compared to the wells' actual locations on the ground, relative to the river channel. This was created by using a 'for' loop to instruct the python matplotlib library to cycle through each row of data in a .csv and create a new plot for each one. each new plot was saved with a unique file name with the frame number at the end "gw_plt_frame_2345.png". The final image set (over 11GB) was then fed into Blender, and rendered as an animation.
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