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<br />"".1'2 0 ~~ <br /> <br />PROJECf TEAM: AN INTERDISCJPUNARY APPROACH <br /> <br />An inter-disciplinary team is a group of professionals with different skills and knowledge who work <br />together toward common project objectives with a blending of functions and mutual support. <br /> <br />The Ft. Lyon Study requires the diverse professional skills offered by this team approach because the <br />study topic is complex and encompasses multiple disciplines. The team approach will produce a <br />comprehensive yet focused work product which is useful to the client and the public. Management <br />of the team will emphasize sharing of methodologies and pooling of data, so as to minimize duplication <br />of effort while increasing creative ideas. The team approach also provides an economical, flexible and <br />accessible organizational structure. These precepts have been observed in the selection of the team <br />which is shown on Figure 1 and in the fonnulation of the management guidelines which follow. <br /> <br />Team Members and Disciplines <br /> <br />IJoyd J. Gronning, P.E. n Project management; water resources <br />Mr. Gronning is a professional engineer specializing in water resources planning and management. <br />As principal of Gronning Engineering Company, he will be responsible for the technical, water <br />management, and water valuation portions of the study. Mr. Gronning has significant experience in <br />the Arkansas River Basin and significant experience in the valuation and acquisition of agricultural <br />water by municipalities. He has been qualified as an expert witness in Water Resources Engineering <br />and in the Valuation of Water Rights. As principal for GEC, he has overall responsibility for the <br />project. <br /> <br />John R. CIarlc, Ph.D., PE. .- Project manager, water resource systems <br />Dr. Clark is the designated team leader and clie 'aison. Dr. Clark has 28 years of engineering <br />experience, including 17 years of managing pr . cts m Colorado as a professional engineer. His area <br />of expertise is water resources systems analysis and water resources planning. John N. Wmchester, <br />a water resources engineer with GEC, will assist Mr. Gronning and Dr. Clark in the data gathering, <br />water inventory, and impact assessment portions of the work. Mr. Winchester has substantial <br />eltperience in analyzing the water rights associated with irrigation and municipal uses in the lower <br />Arkansas Valley including direct flow rights, storage rights, storage space rights, exchange rights, <br />winter storage rights, Fryingpan-Arkansas supply, as well as tributary wells and decreed and un- <br />decreed seepage supplies. For the preliminary design phase, Steve G. Leslie, P.E. will assist Dr. Clark <br />by developing design criteria, perfonning hydraulic analysis, planning system layout, and developing <br />opinions of probable cost of the selected alternatives. <br /> <br />Kevin B. Pratt, J.D. -- Legal, water administration <br />Mr. Pratt is an attorney emphasizing water and water quality law. Most of his work over the past 12 <br />years has been in the Arkansas River basin. He will research legal and administrative requirements <br />of water transfer scenarios and act as legal counsel for the study. Any change in water usage may <br />directly affect the legal rights of other individual farmers under the lateral or ditch. Feasible operating <br />proposals must respect the legal rights of others including those of the State of Kansas embodied in <br />the Arkansas River Compact. While some ditch company bylaws include protection for persons <br />desiring to continue to irrigate, a purchase or management proposal must comply with those bylaws, <br />and must be fair to other irrigators. Mr. Pratt will lead the initial identification of issues, the <br />development of baseline conditions in alternative definition, and assist in the remaining tasks. <br /> <br />2 <br />