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<br />Scenario on Water Resource Planning - Evaluate Basin Development <br />Proposal <br /> <br />The water resource planning model of CRDSS could be used by <br />CWCB personnel to evaluate a proposed water project on a river on the <br />western slope. The CWCB personnel could identify a level of project <br />development that would not adversely impact decreed water rights and that <br />establishes the project's feasibility on a technical and economic basis. <br />Infonnation development actions can be perfonned using data management <br />and modeling functions accessed through the CRDSS interface. The Map <br />Utility can be used to identify possible locations for development. A <br />development plan can be defined using a spreadsheet utility to compile and <br />edit water rights priorities, amount, and timing. These data can then be <br />merged with the other basin water rights and baseline conditions to <br />establish input to the Water Resource Planning Model. An overplot of the <br />time series output for the baseline or comparison case can be obtained to <br />assess the impact of the proposed project on other water resources. <br /> <br />Scenario on Evaluating Operational Strategies for the Colorado River <br /> <br />The Colorado River Basin Simulation Model can be used to <br />evaluate the impact of modified operating criteria on reservoir elevations <br />and contents, on water supply, power generation, Upper Basin Yield and <br />various other system components. For example, the impact of adopting <br />various Lower Basin shortage and surplus criteria can be modelled to <br />determine their impact on Upper Basin reservoir elevations and contents, <br />and Upper Basin yield, both on a short and long tenn basis. This would <br />allow policy makers to make a decision on this issue based on sound <br />technical infonnation. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />8 <br /> <br />ALFALFA (756 acres) <br />WHEAT (420 acres) <br />PEACHES (452 acres) <br />III SOY BEANS (513 acres) <br /> <br />-SIortlp- <br /> <br /> <br /> Policy A <br />~ <br />..J <br />u. <br /> TIME <br /> 0 <br /> CJ <br /> Q <br /> Baselln. 0 <br /> -....J <br /> W <br /> ..J <br /> u. <br /> TIME <br /> <br />