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• Board Meeting Date: 11/19/2008
• Description: CF Section - En-Bloc Non-Reimbursable Investment Recommendations - Water Information Resources Center and the Data Harvesting Initiative
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

STATE OF COLORADO
Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board
DNR Executive Director
Jennifer L. Gimbel
FROM: Dan McAuliffe, Deputy Director
CWCB Director
Susan Lesovsky, Database Coordinator
Dan McAuliffe
CWCB Deputy Director
DATE: November 10, 2008
Agenda Item 27k, November 18-19, 2008 Board Meeting
SUBJECT:
Water Supply Planning & Finance Section –
En-bloc Non-Reimbursable Investments
Water Information Resources Center and the Data Harvesting Initiative
Introduction
The CWCB staff is requesting funding for the Water Resources Information Center (WRIC) and the Data
Harvest Initiative (DHI) in the amount of $550,000 to be used to (1) cover operating costs of the WRIC,
including office/training space, telephone and computer support for five to seven years, (2) adopt and
implement a standard for sharing/harvesting data am ong document management systems, (3) integrate the
CWCB and Colorado State University’s (CSU) systems using the above standard, (4) join with other
interested water entities who want to share their water-related informa tion, and (5) provide funding for
furthering CSU’s digitization of documents, such as the Delph Carpenter collection.
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Board request the Gene ral Assembly authorize $550,000 from the Construction
Fund to be appropriated to the Department of Natural Resources for allocation to the CWCB to continue
the Water Resources Information Center and to implement the Data Harvest Initiative.
Background
The WRIC was authorized by the General Assembly in 1993 to “assemble and make available to water
users in Colorado a consolidated water resources inform ation center” (Sec. 6, HB 93-1273). In November
of 2000, the CWCB secured office space at 1580 Loga n Street (the same building where the Colorado
Water Congress and the Colorado Foundation for Wate r Education are located) to house the WRIC’s
bound volumes. Furthering the goal of making a truly accessible and useful WRIC, the CWCB Imaging
Project was initiated in 1999 with the adoption of SB99-173, which provides online access to imaged,
water-related documents.
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