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Resume, Steven C Harris <br />Page 2 <br />He participated in the five year development of the Colorado Ut+e Indian Water Rights Settlement <br />Act of 1 90, providing engineering senrices for the Ute Mountain - (.Tie 'Tribe. He, work -cd with <br />the Tribal Council the attorneys for the Tribe and the Justice Department, and partici�. ed in <br />most of the ltegotiation sessions botwecn Tribal, 10091 State, and Federal rcpres mtalive& <br />Ile has prepared environmental assessments and documentation of cultural resource activities <br />related to water resowces. Irtcluding Avry Corp of l ngirteer 404 Pennit and Section 7 <br />consultation under the Endangered Species Act. He has been involved 14ith And conducted <br />studies regarding fish lows for sport and native fishes, including trout and the endangered pike <br />minnow for instreanr flour estimates. <br />He has been im olved in approxiatately 300 Water rights cases, including: Oew water right <br />applications, plans of water right trwv- tars, Water right changes, and the field of <br />water rigs based upon the strum hydrology. His work has been fur conservancy districts. <br />irrigation districts, conservation districts, cities, toxms, property owner associations acrd <br />individuals. His water rigrizts work has prituarily been in the San Juan, Dolores, and Rio Cran'le <br />River drainage& He has been involved in approximately 50 waterrights cases rtit?rin the.. Anirna'c <br />Giver basin. <br />Mr, Harris has conducted municipal water engineering studies including, (1) evaluation of the <br />municipal Avater demands and service locations including population prqjWdans and per capita <br />watet Ilse; (2j evaluation of existing water systems ven.zua present and future water demands; (3) <br />pteparation of fcasit ility studies on alternative water supply sources; (4) evaluation of rate and <br />treated .dater storage requirements; (5) Preparation of raw water supply studies Including <br />alternative reservoir and delivery pipeline plaits. evaluation of water consery tion options to <br />reduce water consumption; (6) recornmandations on tap fees and ;rater raises to devclop rc;vellues <br />sufficient to repay and operate the water system; and (7) design and construction observation of <br />municipal water pipelines, C:Iienm have included: the City 4 Durango, Town of Rico, To%Nm of <br />Ignacio, proposed Vallecito Water Company and LaPlata Archuleta Water Company, Pagosa. <br />Area Water And Sanitmion District, Sant Juan dater Conservancy District, and Durango West <br />Metro Districts Aso. l and 2. <br />He has prepared flood studies rcg arduig potential structures Nvithin floodw ys. He has petfornted <br />channel hydraulic studies using the old I•IF -C -2 and the new HPC -RAS channel flow models. <br />Using HEC- 2 /14SCRAS Ire lies ,prepared evaluations of flow its river channels, ineJuzll.ttg <br />csttrnaiion of water depth, velocity, and other parameters provided by the models, He leas <br />perfornied hydrologic studies using SCS, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Forest Service and other <br />methods to determine flows fcir various flood frequencics such as 1 year and inflow design. <br />