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COLORADO l!!l ~~ NATURAL RESOURCES Attachment 1 Development of Alternatives CWCB Board Meeting - July 2004 Overall Approach The approach to developing alternatives for each basin was based on the use of options - individual projects or solutions - as "building blocks" for the basinwide alternatives. Alternatives were developed using options that have the likelihood of being preferred by the stakeholders in each basin, as described more specifically below. The approach consists of the following steps: . Develop options based on Basin Roundtable discussion . Evaluate options . Combine option evaluation with stakeholder preferences . Identify preferred options and use them to construct alternatives to meet the demand gaps for each basin Develop Options Using the lists of options developed by each Basin Roundtable, a set of "generic" options was developed. The categorization of each option into one of the generic options is appropriate since all of the potential projects discussed by the Basin Roundtables can be categorized into a few types of projects. These types of projects could potentially be implemented in every basin, even if their likelihood of accomplishing the planning objectives may vary. The generic options evaluated for each basin were: . Current Conservation . Moderate Conservation . Aggressive Conservation . Moderate Conservation with Storage for Reliability . Aggressive Conservation with Storage for Reliability . Agriculture Conservation . Interruptible Agricultural Transfer . Rotating Agricultural Transfer with Firm Yield for Agriculture . Permanent Agricultural Transfer with Reservoir . New Reservoir with New Water Rights . New Reservoir Firming Existing Water Rights . Reservoir Enlargement . Non-Tributary Groundwater . Municipal and Industrial (M&I) Reuse for Irrigation . M&I Reuse by Exchange Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Financing. Stream and Lake Protection Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning