S9_11-15-04

• Basin: Statewide
• Title: SWSI Phase 1 Report - Section 9 Evaluation Framework
• Date: 11/15/2004
• Author: CWCB
• SWSI - Doc Type: Final Report

Section 9
Evaluation Framework
any way, e.g., 0 for one of the two objectives, 50 for
each, 35 and 65, etc., such that the total for the sub-
objectives within that objective added up to 100. For the
"Provide the Operational Flexibility" major objective, the
Basin Roundtable may have given it a 5 percent major
objective weighting through the Pair-Wise Comparison
method but would have automatically given its single
sub-objective, "Provide for short-term transfer of water to
different users/uses while protecting water rights" the full
100 point sub-objective weighting since there were no
other sub-objectives.
The sub-objective weighting for each individual in each
Basin Roundtable was then used, in combination with the
associated performance measures indicated in
Table 9-1, to assess the performance of each family of
options for that person's preferences, as outlined in
Section 8.
9.5 Evaluation of Options
The approach to developing alternatives for each basin
in future phases of SWSI can be based on the use of
options - individual projects or solutions - as "building
blocks" for alternatives. Alternatives can be 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
Technical Meeting discussions and feedback
^ Evaluate options and combine option evaluation with
stakeholder preferences
^ Identify preferred options and use them to construct
alternatives to meet the demand gaps for each basin
in subsequent phases of SWSI
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9.5.1 Develop Options
Using the lists of options developed by each Basin
Roundtable, a family of options was developed. The
categorization of each option into one of the family of
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 family of options (from Section 8) 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
^ Municipal and Industrial (M&I) Reuse
- M&I Reuse for Irrigation
- M&I Reuse by Exchange
^ Control of Non-Native Phreatophytes
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