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WSRA Grant and Loan Information
Basin Roundtable
South Platte
Applicant
City of Greeley
Description
Halligan Seaman Water Management Project: Shared Vision Planning Model
Account Source
Basin & Statewide
Board Meeting Date
9/17/2008
Contract/PO #
150436
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1970s could become educated by reading the P&S, along with the <br />numerous case studies, how-to manuals, and research papers that <br />served as companion pieces to the P&S. The mix of academic <br />rigor, practicality, and publicly garnered consensus made the P&S <br />the best guideline for tested, internally consistent water resources <br />planning. However, P&S was configured for the design of federal <br />water projects. It does not provide similar guidance on managing <br />drought, operating reservoirs, or deciding which local water supply <br />project to permit. <br />Shared Vision Planning, as we created it, modified the P&S <br />planning process and added collaborative model building and <br />modern public involvement techniques. The use of shared vision <br />planning is increasing; and for every study labeled shared vision <br />planning, two or three others use an essentially similar approach <br />but not the label . Now is an excellent time to assemble the <br />emerging approaches that have universal appeal to planners and <br />that can be applied to a broad range of problems. <br />In more than a half-dozen significant water management areas, <br />such innovative and disciplined planning is needed. The Clean <br />Water Act called for regional planning to manage TMDLs in the <br />early 1970s, but success has been slow and limited. Drought management <br />has improved markedly in the previous 20 years but <br />often needs to be better integrated with water supply planning. <br />Today's water supply planning is controlled as much by Clean <br />Water Act and Endangered Species Act gamesmanship as by planning <br />and trade-off analysis. A viable paradigm for ecosystem restoration <br />and protection planning has not emerged, and planners <br />too often recommend the largest project affordable, with few <br />means of ineasuring project performance. Environmental investment <br />strategies, which are based on the notion that society has <br />limited resources to apply to environmental improvements and <br />therefore needs to assess the benefits and costs of projects, are <br />few and far between. Although conjunctive management of <br />groundwater and surface water has long been touted as a good <br />idea, the need is more tangible than ever. But it will take planning <br />to design an investment strategy for the instrumentation and models <br />that we need to understand groundwater and base-flow conditions. <br />By now, the impacts of flooding in the United States should <br />be greatly reduced. However, After all the dams and levees, <br />floodplain management, and flood insurance, the United States <br />suffers more flood damage per capita than it did 50 years ago. <br />Many agencies have some part of the responsibility, which is to <br />say that no agency has the responsibility to solve the problem in <br />a systematic way. And although planning efforts have been under <br />
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