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Hydrology

The Hydrology Program produces river level, flood and flash-flood forecasts and warning guidance, and water resource information that is disseminated to water and emergency response managers, other federal, state and local water management associations, and the general public throughout the country.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The Hydrology program has made progress on meeting its long-term and annual program goals. The program will have to develop and implement a community hydrologic modeling infrastructure to increase efficiencies. The program will work to expand its collaboration with other federal agencies, state and local government, the private sector, and academia.
  • The program is moderately effective with its production and delivery of water forecast information. However, the program must deliver an expanded suite of water resource management information for use by the hydrologic community.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing and delivering the infrastructure and external communication procedures needed for community hydrologic modeling to increase efficiencies.
  • Providing new water resource forecast information in an Internet-accessible digital format suitable for use by decision support assistance systems.

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