Permit-ready water budget examples

I’m updating our 2025 basin plan and withdrawal permits, and need a defensible water budget format that survives state review — clear methods, uncertainty, and data provenance. If you’ve got a MODFLOW 6-based template or documentation package that cleared review in 2023–2024, please point me to it or describe what reviewers flagged. For what it’s worth, tying each dataset and assumption to a specific permit condition or statute citation has helped with auditors, but I’d like to see how others document it.

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2024 approval: MODFLOW 6 + PESTPP-IES; document ‘mass-balance tolerance’ and DOIs — uSGS archive style: https://www.usgs.gov/software/modflow-6.

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