Yampa - Grand Junction Energy Develop Water Needs Assessment_Contract

• Basin Roundtable: Yampa/White
• Additional Roundtables: Colorado
• Applicant: City of Grand Junction Water Utility Enterprise Fund
• Description: Colorado, White and Yampa River Basins Energy Development Water Needs Assessment
• Account Source: Statewide
• Board Meeting Date: 3/13/2007
• Contract/PO #: 150407
• WSRA - Doc Type: Contract Documents

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is the need for water to support the extraction and processing of the resources. The
Statewide Water Supply Initiative (SWSI), a process which quantified the demands and
allocations for the water in Colorado, did not examine in detail the water needed to produce
and extract these energy resources.
Scope of Work
The proposed study seeks to address important water demand questions facing the
Yampa/White and Colorado River Basins. This is an important project and while the SWSI
identified future energy related water needs in these basins, under a high demand scenario
there were not readily available estimates to provide strong substantiation for these estimates.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS), although believed to address similar energy development issues. However, until
issued, there is no reason to believe that this EIS is looking as comprehensively at the state
and local impacts on water demands as this proposed study. When completed, this project
will serve as an independent assessment of anticipated energy development impacts.
The following scope of work outlines the approach to assessing the water demands needed to
support the development of energy in Colorado through the implementation of a series of
phases (supported by multiple tasks) as follows:
Phase 1— Development of Water Demands
• Task 1.1 - Data Gathering and Literature Research
• Task 1.2 - Agency Coordination
Phase 2 — Alternatives Development
• Task 2.1 - Energy Process Evaluation/Assessment
• Task 2.2 - Analysis of Water Demand
• Task 2.3 - Analysis of Increased Water Demand
Common/Overall Phase
• Report
• Project Management
• Meetings
The overarching objectives of this project are multi-faceted aiming to:
• Quantify the direct use of water for extraction and development.
• Quantify the additional municipal demand from direct/indirect worker populations
and multiplier impacts from resultant growth.
• Quantify the water demands from off-site electrical generation needed for industrial
and municipal development.
• Create a"demand and supply range matrix" for near, moderate, and long-term
development with modest, moderate, and full production scenarios.
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