alternatives-overview

• Title: Development of Alternatives - Overview
• Author: CWCB
• SWSI - Doc Type: Supporting Documents

Development of Alternatives Overview
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 wi th 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 ea ch Basin Roundtable, a family of options
was developed. The categorization of each opti on into one of the family of options is
appropriate since all of the potential projec ts 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 thei r likelihood of accomplishing the planning
objectives may vary.
The family of options evaluated for each basin were:
Conservation
Current Conservation
Moderate Conservation
Aggressive Conservation
Moderate Conservation with Storage for Reliability
Aggressive Conservation with Storage for Reliability
Agriculture Conservation
Agricultural Transfer
Interruptible Agricultural Transfer
Rotating Agricultural Transfer with Firm Yield for Agriculture
Permanent Agricultural Transfer with Reservoir
Reservoir
New Reservoir with New Water Rights
New Reservoir Firming Existing Water Rights
Reservoir Enlargement
Non-Tributary Groundwater
DRAFT
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