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Energy use intensive <br />Carbon footprint to run RO is large <br />Solid waste issues <br />EIS <br />• Evaluates 7 alternatives <br />• Identifies proposed action as "agency preferred alternative" <br />• Most economical <br />• Most operationally efficient <br />• Most environmentally responsible <br />• Can be found at www.sdseis.com <br />Other Alternatives <br />• Wetland <br />• Arkansas River <br />• Fountain Creek <br />• Downstream intake <br />• Highway 115 <br />• No Action <br />Attributes of proposed action <br />1. already own water rights <br />2. no new trans-basin diversions <br />3. no new main-stem dams <br />4. most cost effective <br />5. operationally efficient <br />6. environmentally responsible <br />7. water for 4 communities <br />8. more $ for Fountain Creek <br />9. no agriculture dry-up <br />There are public meetings currently scheduled. The are looking for a final EIS in late 2008 and a Record <br />of Decision in early 2009. <br />7. Presentation: Basin Modeling - Beaudry Kock <br />Introduced by Gary Barber. After we complete our consumptive and non-consumptive needs <br />assessment, our charge as a RT is to generate projects and methods to address the needs we identify. <br />We will see a grant application this summer to take Dr. Tim Gates' work down in the Lower Arkansas <br />Valley and expand that into the Upper Ark and down into the Purgatoire, and try to build a basin model. <br />Beaudry's model is being sponsored by USGS and MIT. He's got a socio-economic program that fits on <br />top of a GIS program like the one developed by Dr. Gates. Because he is self-funding, we will look at his <br />part of this program as matching funds for Dr. Gates' model. <br />ArkAgent: Arkansas Agent Modeling Project <br />Project Objective: <br />Through close, collaborative work with stakeholder groups in the Arkansas Basin, and by <br />leveraging a strong base of pre-existing simulation tools and empirical scientific datasets, and <br />emphasizing the importance of an integrated approach to water resources management: Develop a <br />water management scenario simulation tool for use by the Arkansas Basin community, which <br />incorporates social, economic and hydrologic processes. <br />This model builds on existing work by Dr. Gates: CSU GeoDSS <br />CSU GeoDSS: Regional-scale "spatial decision-support model for predicting basin-scale <br />impacts of alternatives for managing the irrigated stream-aquifer system of the lower Valley, constrained <br />by state water rights and interstate compact. <br />Integrated vision of water systems <br />This model shows social and economic impacts (like politics, culture, regional economics and <br />oil prices) as well as physical hydrogeological impacts (like climate change, salinity and evaporative <br />