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Colo 0 <br />University <br />July 1, 2008 <br />Mr. Todd Doherty <br />Interstate Water Management Development Section <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />1580 Logan Street, Suite 600 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering <br />Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-13 72 <br />(970)491-5048 <br />httpa/www.engr.colostate.edu/depts/ce <br />Re: Colorado State University Application to CWCB Water Supply Reserve Account <br />Dear Mr. Doherty: <br />We are pleased to submit our grant application to the 2008 Water Supply Reserve Account entitled "Geospatial <br />Decision Support System for Integrated Water Management in Colorado's Arkansas River Basin." The <br />Arkansas River GeoDSS that we propose in our application is designed for fully integrated, basin-wide water <br />resources management over the entire Arkansas River drainage in Colorado. Geo-spatially integrated water <br />quantity and quality models of surface and groundwater resources, as constrained by legal and administrative <br />requirements, will be applied to issues that are of concern to multiple interests and stakeholders in the Basin. An <br />underlying aim is to provide water users and agencies with a database and computational tools that will assist <br />them to better steward the waters of the Arkansas River from the headwaters to the Colorado-Kansas line. <br />Per a letter to you from Chairman Gary Barber dated June 18 2008, our application has been approved by <br />consensus of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable. Moreover, it is being sponsored by all four water conservancy <br />districts within the Arkansas River Basin. <br />Concerns expressed by the Roundtable included the need for us to coordinate our effort with the recently- <br />announced undertaking by CWCB to move forward with the development of a DSS for the Arkansas River <br />Basin under the CDSS project. We welcome the opportunity to begin a dialogue with appropriate personnel at <br />CWCB regarding such collaboration. We will be contacting you and others regarding arranging a meeting <br />soon. In the meantime, please let us know of any questions or concerns that you may have. Thank you. <br />Sincerely, <br />Timothy K. Gates <br />Professor <br />?? `,s??s <br />John W. Labadie <br />Professor