Energy Water Needs Detailed Scope_09_03_07

• Basin Roundtable: Colorado
• Additional Roundtables: Yampa/White
• Sub-Committee: Energy
• Title: Detailed Scope of Work - Water Needs Assessment for the Yampa/White/Green & Colorado River Basins
• Date: 9/4/2007
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Needs Assessment Documents

allocations for the water in Colorado, did not examine in detail the water needed to produce
and extract these energy resources.
Scope of Work
The proposed study seeks to address important water demand questions facing the
Yampa/White and C olorado River B asins. This is an important project and while the SWSI
identified future energy related water needs in these basins , under a high demand scenario
there were not readily available estimates to provide strong substantiation for these estimate s.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS), although believed to address similar energy development issues . However, until
issued, there is no reason to believe that this EIS is looking as comprehensively at the state
and local impacts on water demands as this proposed study . When completed, t his project
will serve as an independent assessment of anticipated energy development impacts.

The following scope of work outlines the approach to assessing the water demands needed to
support the development of energy in Colorado through the implementation of a series of
phases (supported by multiple tasks) as follows:

Phase 1 – Development of Water Demands
Task 1.1 - Data Gathering and Literature Research
Task 1.2 - A gency Coordination
Phase 2 – Alternatives Development
Task 2.1 - Energy Process Evaluation/ Assessment
Task 2.2 - Analysis of Water Demand
Task 2.3 - A nalysis of Increased Water Demand
Common/Overall Phase
Report
Project Management
Meetings

The overarchi ng objectives of this project are multi - faceted aiming to :
Quantify the direct use of water for extraction and development.
Quantify the additional municipal demand from direct/indirect worker populations
and multiplier impacts from resultant growth.
Quant ify the water demands from off - site electrical generation needed for industrial
and municipal development.
Create a “demand and supply range matrix” for near, moderate, and long - term
development with modest, moderate, and full production scenarios.
Compare and integrate these demands with recently - developed SWSI demand and
supply data.
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