CDSS_2001_Annual_Preport

• Title: CDSS 2001 Annual Report
• Description: A recap of the work done for and by the Colorado Decision Support Systems.
• Decision Support - Doc Type: Publication
• Date: 1/1/2002
• DSS: All
• Basin: Statewide
• Prepared By: CWCB

Operation and Maintenance (O&M)
The pie chart illustrates the amount that has been
Since the initiation of the CDSS effort for the
used for development of the CRDSS and RGDSS
Colorado River Basin, funding of the operation and
compared to the existing operation and maintenance
maintenance of the CRDSS and RGDSS efforts has
fund, which is approximately five percent.
been an issue. Currently, approximately $621,000 per
year has been funded to protect the current capital
investment of $13 million dollars. Sixty percent of
Percent Comparison between Existing CDSS
the $621,000 is associated with FTEs, and the
development and Existing O & M
remaining 40 percent is used for
hardware/networking costs. This amount was
5%
intended as partial O&M funding for the Colorado
Existing Operation
and Rio Grande basins and does not include any
and Maintenance
funding for any future DSS development.
This current O&M funding is not adequate to fund
the operation and maintenance of future CDSS
components and is inadequate to fund full-scale
maintenance of the existing system.
The CWCB, with the support of DWR, prepared a
Targeted Base Review for the Office of State
Planning and Budge that detailed the current and
long-term maintenance requirements of the CDSS
Development
Development
system. As a result of that study, a Decision Item that
requests an additional $376,404 annually and a one-
time capital outlay of $7,200 from Severance Tax to
support a long-term strategy for operating and
maintaining the existing Colorado’s Decision Support
95%
Systems (CDSS). This decision item requests three
FTEs, a program coordinator, a groundwater modeler
The current funding provides mostly for operation
and a GIS Specialist along with monies for contract
personnel and provides minimal support for regular
work associated with specialized work tasks. CDSS
maintenance of the CDSS. CDSS operation and
includes the existing Colorado River basin system
maintenance should be considered part of the
and the Rio Grande basin system that will become
construction process since it provides essential tools
fully operational in FY2001-02.
for needed determining the feasibility of constructing
a water project.
Capital funding for the construction of additional
decision support systems for the other river basins in
For more detailed discussion on CDSS as well as
the state is expected to continue to be provided from
component fact sheets, please go to the CDSS
the CWCB construction bill. A specified amount of
.
website at http://cdss.state.co.us
existing O&M funds has also been and will continue
to be provided by the CWCB construction fund.