Colorado Water June 2005

• Year: 2005
• Title: Colorado Water
• Author: Water Center of Colorado State University
• Description: JUNE 2005 Issue
• Publications - Doc Type: Newsletter

AWRA Scholarships to Raby, Ritter, Triana and Zarter
The 2004 -2005 Academic Year recipients of the
AWRA Colorado Section Rich Herbert Scholar-
ship were selected from among an outstanding field
of applicants. These students will present the results
of their work at the May Program of the Colorado
Section of AWRA. A brief description of the schol-
arship recipients follows, in alphabetical order:
Kim Raby is a MS student in the Department of En-
vironmental Studies at the University of Colorado.
Her advisor is Dr. Mark Williams and the topic of
research is Using a Watershed Approach to De-
velop Land Use Planning Tools in San Juan County,
Colorado. The research will provide a scientifically -
based, user friendly tool for watershed manage-
ment that can be used in the local land use planning
process.
Kaylene Ritter is a PhD student in the Department
of Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Colorado
School of Mines. Her advisor is Dr. Donald Maca-
lady and the topic of research is The Influence of
Natural Organic Matter (NOM) on Arsenic Adsorp-
tion to Iron Oxides: Implications for the Mobil-
ity and Remediation of Arsenic in Colorado. The
purpose of this work is to discern the properties of
NOM that influence arsenic adsorption to Fe oxides.
This understanding will allow rapid and effective
assessment of the threat of NOM posed to an arsenic
treatment system.
Enrique Triana is a PhD student in the Department
of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University.
His advisor is Dr. John Labadie and the general di-
rection of research is Enhancement to the MODSIM
River Reservoir Operation Model. The goal of this
work is to develop an enhanced version of MOD -
SIM with greater graphical user interface capabili-
ties and additional ability to handle water allocation
in an administrative /institutional framework when
water routing in short time intervals is invoked.
Charlotte Zarter is a MS student in the Department
of Environmental Science and Engineering at the
Colorado School of Mines. Her advisor is Dr. Rob-
ert Siegrist and the topic of research is Field Evalu-
ation of Vadose Zone Purification and the Effects
of Applied Water Quality and Hydraulic Loading
Rate. The results of this work will directly support
development of guidelines regarding the design and
operation of engineered pretreatment units to cost -
effectively treat domestic wastewater at a given site.
30th Colorado Water Workshop
"Thirty Years Ago, Who Would Ever Have Imagined ?"
July 27 -29, 2005
Gunnison, CO
When the Water Workshop began 20 years ago, Colorado's population was less than 60% what it is today, big
water projects were still under construction throughout the West, recreation was barely recognized as a "benefi-
cial use," the dry winter of '76 and Carter's Hit List still lay in the future, "75,000,000 acre -feet over any 10 -year
period" was still the Law of the Colorado River, and almost no one had heard of global warming.
Time for a "30 -year Reality Check ". Have we gained, lost of just held our own in the challenges of developing
Water in the West? And what can we imagine we will be looking at in 2035?
Keep posted via the website at www.westem.edu/water or contact George Sibley at 970 - 943 -2055 or
water @westem.edu for more information.
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