On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Thomas Adams wrote:

You understand, don't you, that the point you are using to define your
'dam', delineates a watershed;

Tom,

  Yes, I do understand.

You also need to generate a storage-elevation curve, which will relate the
water level (which r.lake needs) to the volume behind your dam (assuming
none escapes, otherwise the problem gets more complicated) -- the change in
volume depends on the inflow rate, which a hydrologic model will provide.

  This is flat, agricultural land with no defined streams. The only inflow
comes from precipitation; what does not infiltrate into the soil and drains
to the swale adjacent to the county road, along with surface runoff, flows
through a culvert (the 'dam.')

Typically, hydrologic models are calibrated against observed flow data.
There is the further assumption that the inflow spreads over the lake
surface instantaneously, which for a small surface area is not altogether
unreasonable...

  My reading of the manual pages for r.sim.water and Itzi suggest they, too,
require perennial streams in defined channels. There should be a set of
modules that work for my need here. If you have suggestions please share
them with me.

Thanks,

Rich

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