Overview of Qualifications: Water Resouce Planning Services Apr 2003

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Firm Qualifications Professional Capabilities Founded in 1942, Boyle Engineering is recognized nationally as a leader and innovator in water resources engineering. This diversified organization of approximately 500 individuals includes over 250 registered engineers, architects, scientists and geologists. They are specialists in river basin planning and modeling, hydrology, water resources engineering and planning, irrigation, water rights investigations and evaluations, agricultural economics, water conservation, cost engineering, computer sciences, and water and wastewater treatment. Projects completed by Boyle have involved various combinations of ground water and surface water supplies and water rights, computer models of raw water systems and river basins, storage reservoirs, treatment facilities, conveyance and distribution facilities, pumping plants, computerized monitoring and control systems, and environmental impact mitigation measures. Boyle has performed comprehensive analyses of over 100 river basins and developed master plans for more than 60 municipalities, water districts and other water agencies. Boyle has operated an office in Lakewood, Colorado, continuously since 1981 to provide services to clients in the Rocky Mountain region. In particular, this office has acquired unique qualifications and experience in the application of computer models to water resources planning problems and issues. Presented below are summaries of Boyle's qualifications in several key areas related to water resources planning. Computer Modeling and GIS Our engineers use a wide variety of commercial, owner generated, and Boyle- developed software to simulate river basins and raw water system operations within a framework of legal and physical constraints. The Boyle Engineering Stream Simulation Model ( BESTSM) was developed in- house and is continually updated to support major river basin planning from California to Florida. BESTSM is used to evaluate combined components of BESTSM models are used surface and ground water systems, such as reservoir operations, agricultural diversions and return flows, river and reservoir routing, evapotranspiration, to analyze water allocation ground water flow, and surface water quality. More specifically, Boyle used problems in every river in BESTSM to model Denver's raw water system, the Colorado -Big Thompson the State. project, and the Windy Gap Firming Project, on the Green Mountain -Joint Use Study, and on basin -wide assessments of the Colorado River, the San Juan and Dolores Rivers, the Gunnison River, the Rio Grand River, the Arkansas River, and the South Platte River. -1- )30VLE