hydroelectric dam operators deserve software as powerful as their turbines
TailraceOS is a water rights ledger and downstream flow compliance engine built specifically for run-of-river and reservoir hydroelectric operators. It models real-time release schedules against FERC license conditions, tribal water compact obligations, and downstream irrigation senior rights so you stop getting surprise cease-and-desist letters from the Bureau of Reclamation. Fish passage mandate calendar included because apparently that's someone's full-time job.
- Real-time release schedule modeling against active FERC license conditions and minimum flow thresholds
- Conflict resolution engine that evaluates over 340 distinct prior appropriation rule variants across 17 western U.S. jurisdictions
- Native integration with USGS StreamStats and USBR HydroMet telemetry feeds for live gauge data
- Tribal compact obligation tracker with automatic escalation windows and counsel notification hooks. Silence is not compliance.
- Fish passage mandate calendar with species-specific window enforcement, bypass valve sequencing, and agency contact directory
USGS NWIS, USBR HydroMet, FERC eLibrary, PI System (OSIsoft), HydroVault, StreamSentinel API, Salesforce Government Cloud, AquaLedger, SCADA Bridge Pro, PNW Grid Ops Exchange, TribeStat Compact Manager, WaterMatrix RT
TailraceOS runs on a microservices backbone with each compliance domain — FERC, tribal, irrigation senior rights, fish passage — isolated into its own bounded context so a bad data feed in one lane doesn't poison your release schedule in another. The ledger layer is built on MongoDB because the document model maps cleanly onto the deeply nested, jurisdiction-specific structure of water rights instruments and I'm not apologizing for that. Hot operational state — active release windows, alarm conditions, open escalations — lives in Redis, which handles the query load at the polling intervals this domain demands. Everything talks over a typed internal event bus; if you want to know why a valve decision was made at 2 AM on a Tuesday, the audit trail is complete and it will hold up in a FERC compliance review.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
Proprietary. All rights reserved.
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