CRDSS_Overview_20000101

• Title: CRDSS Overview
• Description: A description of the Colorado Decision Support System, its purpose and extent.
• Decision Support - Doc Type: Report
• Date: 1/1/2000
• DSS: Colorado River
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Prepared By: CWCB

Colorado River Decision Support System (CRDSS)
An Overview
(.COLORADO RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT ISSUES
A. Water Management Issues
B. Interstate Compact Issues
C. Water Resources Planning Issues
D. Water Resources Administration Issues
II. COLORADO RIVER DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
A. Motivation for a Decision Support System
B. CRDSS Goals and Objectives
III. CRDSS PROJECT
A. Project Elements
1. Database Development
2. Models
3. System Integration
4. User Involvement
5. Documentation
B. Application Scenarios
1. Scenario Using Spatial Database
2. Scenario on Water Resource Planning
3. Scenario on Evaluating Operational Strategies
C. Development Team
D. Technical Advisory Committee
E. Development Schedule
F. Feasibility Study
G. Design and Development
IV. SELECTED ACRONYMS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I. COLORADO RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT ISSUES
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The Colorado River and its tributaries within Colorado drain over one third of the state's area. This area
receives nearly 60% of the state's total precipitation but has only 12% of its population. Less than 20% of
the Colorado River Basin lies inside Colorado, but about 70% of the water in the river at Lee Ferry
Arizona (Compact Point) originates in the state.
Originating in the north central mountains of Colorado, the main stem of the Colorado River flows
southwesterly, is met at Grand Junction by the Gunnison River, and continues west into Utah. The
Yampa and White Rivers flow westward across the northwest quadrant of the state to the Utah border
where they join the Green River, another tributary of the Colorado originating in Wyoming. The San