Colorado River Division 5 Silverthorne RICD 04CW217 State's Expert Disclosures

• File Number: 04CW217
• Description: State's Expert Disclosures Pursuant to C.R.C.P. Rule 26‎(A)‎ ‎(2)‎
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/25/2006
• Author: Susan Schneider, #19961 Assistant Attorney General Natural Resources and Enviornment Section
• Title: State's Expert Disclosures Pursuant to C.R.C.P. Rule 26‎(A)‎ ‎(2)‎ Silverthorne RICD
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Court Documents

those areas. Mr. Kowalski is also an expert on the doctrine of maximum utilization.p anon. Mr.
Kowalski will testify as an expert in these matters. His opinions and bases for his opinions,
as well as the information he considered in reaching his opinions will be based upon the
CWCB's Recommended Findings of Fact and Recommendations to the Water Court
which were filed on September 16, 2005 and in the Prehearing Statement of Staff of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board and Division of Wildlife submitted in preparation
for the CWCB hearing held July 18, 2005. Mr. Kowalski has not prepared an additional
report. Mr. Kowalski is a State employee and,therefore, will not be specially
compensated for his report or testimony. The cases in which Mr. Kowalski has testified
in the preceding four years are stated in his resume which is attached.
2. Mark Uppendahl, Senior Water Resource Specialist, 6060 Broadway, Denver,
CO 80216, phone [phone]. Mr. Uppendahl has a Bachelors degree in
Environmental, Population and Organism Biology with a special emphasis on water
resources from the University of Colorado. Mr. Uppendahl has been employed by the
State of Colorado for 15 years and currently is the Instream Flow Program Coordinator
for the Colorado Division of Wildlife.As the instream flow specialist for the CDOW, Mr.
Uppendahl is responsible for the identification of streams and lakes for instream flow
investigations, coordination with CWCB and CDOW field staff on instream flow
projects, identification of appropriate methodologies to be used to quantify and describe
both the natural environment and the flows needed to preserve that natural environment
to a reasonable degree.
During his tenure with the State, Mr. Uppendahl has performed hydrologic, hydraulic and
water right investigations and water resource studies for the appropriation and protection
of instream flow and natural lake level water rights. Mr. Uppendahl has also provided
complex hydraulic and hydrologic engineering analyses as required in the development
of new instream recommendations and in the appropriation of instream flow water rights.
Mr. Uppendahl also has experience reviewing plans for augmentation, changes of water
rights and special studies such as Wild and Scenic River proposals, Environmental
Impact Statements and FEC permits to determine impact to state held water rights.
Mr. Uppendahl is qualified to give an expert opinion due to his education and experience.
His testimony and opinions are based upon all the exhibits listed in the State's Expert
Disclosure and he may rely on any and all during trial.
Mr. Uppendahl is a State employee and therefore will not be compensated specially for
his study and testimony. Mr. Uppendahl testified as an expert at trial and in deposition in
Case No. 03CW86, Water Division 6, In re the Application of the City of Steamboat
Springs.
3. Dick Wolfe, P.E., Chief of Water Supply, Colorado Division of Water Resources,
1313 Sherman Street, Room 818,Denver, Colorado 80203;telephone[phone].
Mr. Wolfe has a Masters of Science Degree in Agricultural Engineering from Colorado
State University (1986) and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Engineering
from Colorado State University(1983). Mr. Wolfe may testify as an expert in water
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