Water supply control system that implements safety controls and uses simulation to prevent commands that would cause or worsen flooding

A water supply control method for interconnecting a plurality of non-water supply lakes and one or more water supply lakes, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a computer-implemented control system coupled to a plurality of gates, one or more pumps, and a plurality of sensors, a request to transfer excess water from a currently non-water supply lake to an intermediate non-water supply lake or a water supply lake, wherein the currently non-water supply lake and the intermediate non-water supply lake or the water supply lake are associated with one or more geographic locations;
• determining, via a reservoir simulation modeling component of the computer-implemented control system, based at least in part on data from the plurality of sensors associated with the currently non-water supply lake and the intermediate non-water supply lake or the water supply lake and the one or more geographic locations of the currently non-water supply lake and the intermediate non-water supply lake or the water supply lake, whether transferring water from the currently non-water supply lake to the intermediate non-water supply lake or the water supply lake will cause or worsen a flood event;
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• in response to a determination that transferring water from the currently non-water supply lake to the intermediate non-water supply lake or the water supply lake will not cause or worsen a flood event, issuing a command, via a monitoring, control, and command component of the computer-implemented control system, to cause a gate associated with a dam at the currently non-water supply lake to open such that water is transferred from the currently non-water supply lake to the intermediate non-water supply lake or the water supply lake via one or more pipes.

A water supply control system for interconnecting a plurality of non-water supply lakes and one or more water supply lakes, the system comprising:

• a plurality of conveyance elements adapted to transfer water between the plurality of non-water supply lakes and one or more water supply lakes, wherein the plurality of conveyance elements comprises a plurality of pipes;
• a plurality of gates associated with a plurality of dams at the plurality of non-water supply lakes and the one or more water supply lakes, the plurality of gates adapted to adjust an amount of water flow through the plurality of pipes;
• one or more pumps adapted to pump water through a corresponding one or more of the plurality of pipes;
• a plurality of sensors associated with one or more of the non-water supply lakes and the water supply lakes;
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• a computer-implemented control system coupled to the plurality of gates, the one or more pumps, and the plurality of sensors and configured to:
• receive a request to transfer excess water from a non-water supply lake of the plurality of non-water supply lakes to a water supply lake of the one or more water supply lakes,
• in response to receiving the request, evaluate, via a monitoring, control, and command component, a plurality of safety controls,
• implement, via the monitoring, control, and command component, at least one safety control of the plurality of safety controls based on the evaluation, and
• in response to implementation of the at least one safety control, issue a command, via the monitoring, control, and command component, to cause a gate associated with a dam at the non-water supply lake to open such that water is transferred from the non-water supply lake to the water supply lake via at least one of the plurality of conveyance elements, wherein the plurality of safety controls comprise prevention of issuance of the command until an operator is present at the dam.