Overview of Qualifications: Water Resouce Planning Services Apr 2003

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Sample Water Resources projects - Continued filed for the necessary water rights and was granted conditional decrees for a 31,575 -af DeBerard Reservoir and tributary direct flow rights. This study determined the contemplated draft of these conditional rights, through review of the original reconnaissance study, filing maps and Statement of Claim by MPWCD, and the testimony and decrees in the water court case. As part of the study, Boyle proposed two methods for future administration of the transferred rights. The first method was more exact and complex, while the second method was easy to administer. An operational model of the reservoir was developed, based partially on a spreadsheet that the Bureau developed in about 1954 to determine water availability to the project. The objective was to determine potential storable flow and test the sensitivity of yield to the administration technique. The spreadsheet took into account bypass requirements for downstream seniors and monthly and annual contemplated draft limits. Raw Water Master Plan and Water Rights Engineering Joe Stibrich has provided water resources planning and water rights engineering services to the City of Louisville since 1986 and Boyle is currently under contract with the City to update it's Raw Water Master Plan. These services have been provided in support of the City's acquisition and transfer of water rights in the Boulder Creek and South Boulder Creek watersheds, tributaries to the South Platte River. Engineering work performed has included determination of water availability, conveyance losses, historic crop distributions, on -farm application efficiencies, consumptive use, irrigation and municipal return flows, and operational analyses of the City's water supply conveyance and storage system; engineering reports development; and providing support in settlement conferences and expert witness testimony in support of these evaluations. To analyze the effects of potential drought conditions, it was necessary to develop a computer model (SYSTEM) to simulate historical yields from more than 16 agricultural water rights and the operation of the City's conveyance and storage facilities under historical conditions. Yields were measured against various demand levels while exercising conservation measures and operational changes to the system. Patterns of agricultural deliveries were obtained from diversion records from the DWR's electronic databases. Yields were assessed in the model against municipal demands. Existing and future storage capacities were used to regulate and manage supplies and increase yields. Municipal return flows were identified to adequately replicate return flow patterns from the original agricultural uses in order to maintain historical levels in the receiving streams. Senate Bill 5 Rules and Regulations and Technical Review In 1985, Colorado enacted legislation known as Senate Bill 5. This legislation had broad - reaching impacts on the way in which ground water within the Denver Basin would be legally appropriated and physically developed. Senate Bill 5 mandated that the State Engineer promulgate rules -13- 13 E