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Water Project Construction Program -Project Data <br />• <br />Applicant: Colorado Water Conservation Board, <br />Project Name: ISF Engineering and Technical <br />Support Services ~ Project Type: Engineering Support <br />Services <br />County: Statewide Drainage Basin: <br />Statewide Drainage Basins Water Source: N/A <br />Total Study Cost: $150,000 Funding Sources: CWCB <br />CWCB Investment: <br />$150,000 Interest Rate: N/A Term: N/A <br />This project entails the continued implementation of a statewide engineering and technical <br />support services program to help address consulting engineering and other professional service <br />needs of the Colorado Water Conservation Board's Instream flow and Natural Lake Level <br />Program. <br />The fund will be used to retain consultants to perform engineering support services for the <br />protection of the Board's existing instream flow water rights, providing justification for new <br />appropriations, and providing technical analysis for the transfer of acquired water rights to <br />instream flow use on ~an as needed basis. In addition, the fund will be used to retain other <br />• personal services contract or temporary employees to provide technical and/or data maintenance <br />assistance to ISF program staff. <br />The CWCB relies upon sound technical investigations to appropriate, acquire, and protect <br />instream flow water rights throughout the state. Due to an increase in water court activities, the <br />workload for the CWCB staff responsible for the protection of the CWCB's existing instream <br />flow water rights continues to grow. For example, resume review activities including injury <br />analyses that provide justification for filing of Statements of Opposition requires significant staff <br />resources. In addition; technical investigations are needed to process the acquisition of senior <br />water rights and to provide technical support and expertise to change the historic uses of the <br />acquired water to instream flow use. <br />Likewise, engineering support services maybe needed to conduct water availability analysis for <br />streams on which the Board is considering appropriating new instream flow water rights. This <br />includes determination of the amount of water that is physically available for the Board's <br />appropriation by analyzing available gage records, analyzing water diversions and call records, <br />using available stream flow models, and developing stream flow models or utilizing appropriate <br />standard methods to develop hydrographs to predict the natural (virgin) streamflows for the each <br />stream under consideration. <br />• <br />