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Water Project Construction Program—Project Data <br /> Applicant: Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> Project Name: ISF Engineering and Technical Project Type: Stream and Lake <br /> Support Services Protection Technical Services <br /> County: Statewide Drainage Basin: Water Source: N/A <br /> Statewide Drainage Basins <br /> Total Study Cost: $50,000 Funding Sources: CWCB <br /> CWCB Investment: Interest Rate: N/A Term: N/A <br /> $50,000 <br /> This project entails the continued implementation of a statewide engineering, technical, and <br /> support services program to help address consulting engineering and other professional service <br /> needs of the Colorado Water Conservation Board's Instream Flow and Natural Lake Level <br /> Program. <br /> The fund will be used to retain consultants to perform engineering support services for the <br /> protection of the Board's existing instream flow water rights, and for providing (1)technical and <br /> scientific bases for new appropriations, and (2) technical analyses for the transfer of acquired <br /> water rights to instream flow use, all on an as-needed basis. In addition, the fund will be used to <br /> • retain other personal services contract or temporary employees to provide technical and/or data <br /> maintenance assistance to ISF program staff. <br /> The CWCB relies upon sound technical investigations to appropriate, acquire, and protect <br /> instream flow water rights throughout the state. Due to a steady increase in water court matters, <br /> the workload for the CWCB staff responsible for the protection of the CWCB's existing instream <br /> flow water rights continues to grow. For example, resume review activities, including injury <br /> analyses that provide justification for filing of Statements of Opposition, requires significant <br /> staff resources. In addition, technical investigations are needed to process the acquisition of <br /> senior water rights and to provide technical support and expertise to change the decreed uses of <br /> the acquired water to instream flow use. <br /> Likewise, engineering support services may be needed to conduct water availability analyses for <br /> streams on which the Board is considering appropriating new instream flow water rights. This <br /> includes determination of the amount of water that is physically available for the Board's <br /> appropriation by analyzing available gage records, diversion records and call records, using <br /> available stream flow models, and developing stream flow models or utilizing appropriate <br /> standard methods to develop hydrographs to predict the natural (virgin) streamflows for each <br /> stream under consideration. <br /> • <br />