Arkansas - UAWCD Telemetry Data Collection_Notice to Proceed & Contract

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Exhibit A Scope of Work Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District -Telemetry Data Collection Platforms at Six Reservoirs plus Flow Control Equipment and Gauging at Six Reservoir Outlet Channels and Nine Streams within the Upper Arkansas River Basin This Scope of Work is divided into four sections. Section 1 provides a description of the tasks involved in the project along with a description of who will be completing the work and a description of the deliverables associated with the task. Section 2 lists the key personnel proposed for the project with a brief description of their qualifications. Section 3 presents a detailed breakdown of the costs to complete the project, and Section 4 presents the Project Schedule. Section 1: Task Summa This project involves the installation of 15 water structures (measuring devices), including data collection platforms at six reservoirs and measuring devices and telemetry gauging at nine stream locations. The structural water activity will generate accurate and timely data that will be used to better manage water both within the District's 2 million acre service area at the headwaters of the Arkansas River and within the entire Arkansas River Basin. For instance, data will be shared with Regional Resource Planning Group members Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, Pueblo Board of Waterworks, Colorado Springs Utilities, City of Aurora, and Lower Arkansas Water Conservancy District to develop cooperative water resource management programs to optimize water use and to determine flow yields from major tributaries. Data will be used to support Colorado's Decision Support Systems plus Colorado State University's Arkansas Basin studies. Task A includes the activities associated with installing the data collection platforms at six reservoirs. Task B includes the activities associated with installing the measuring devices and telemetry gauging at nine stream locations. The goal of Task A and Task B combined is to generate accurate real time water and weather data at six high mountain reservoirs at the headwaters of the Arkansas River and to generate accurate real time stream flow measurements at nine strategically chosen stream locations. Task A goals will be accomplished by modernizing existing water storage facilities with state-of-the-art data collection platforms at six reservoirs to generate data needed to improve water management. Task B goals will be accomplished by constructing flow control devices and related gauges at nine streams to allow water supplies to be more accurately measured, tracked through the delivery system, and distributed. Taken together, Tasks A and B will generate data the District can use to increase accuracy, increase timeliness, and increase institutional innovation to reduce conflict while meeting the increased water demands of sometimes competing users due to a projected population growth in the headwaters region of 72% between 2000 and 2030. This project includes funding from several sources. Some work has begun with other funding already available. The cost sheet at the end of this exhibit has details regarding what funds are being used for what tasks. UAWCD has done the planning legwork to increase the certainty that its $815,000 structural water project will be completed by 2010. Table 1 demonstrates its constellation of funding approaches, including two grant applications and two separate cost share agreements. 1