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. . . Introduction Purpose-The purpose of this Request for Proposal is to provide details for the proposed Southeastern Colorado WCD/Arkansas River Basin Water and Storage Needs Assessment (Assessment Project) and request your formal proposal for the completion of this project (15 copies of the proposals are due to the Enterprise on or before April 25. 1997). The Assessment Project is intended to compile and analyze the future water and storage needs of agricultural and municipal water users groups within the boundaries of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District (District). This RFP will outline the Assessment Project Management. Project Goals and Objectives. expected contents of the proposals, and the evaluation and selection process, Background-ln the fall of 1995 the District Board decided that they needed to somehow determine the future water and storage needs of all their constituents before making any change-in-operation decisions for the use of Fryingpan-Arkansas (Fry-Ark) Project facilities. The Board had received a report from the City of Colorado Spring Water Resources Department, which projected the City of Colorado Springs to have a population in excess of 900.000 by the year 2040. The report, and subsequent Water Resource Plan, looked to the Fry- Ark Project facilities (Pueblo Reservoir, Twin Lakes, and Turquoise Reservoir) as a source to meet their projected storage space demands, The Board fonned the Storage Study Committee (SSC) as a firSt step in understanding the complete set of water and storage demands of the District's diverse agricultural and municipal constituents, Through the District's Storage Study Committee (the Committee) attempts have been made to determine the future demands for storage and water supplies within the District, Outreach meetings were held during the summer of 1996 with over 25 municipal water user entities and numerous agricultural entities to determine their future needs, Following these meetings a formal "survey of water users" was sent out to the District's allocation mailing Iist-a list of about 200 agricultural and municipal entities within the nine-county service area of the District. The interviews and survey asked each entity to quantify their future need for storage and water supplies, incfudin!1 tHe use of Fry-Ark Project facilities and water. Generally, the interviews and surveys showed that many of the small communities in the District did not have a good picture of their future demands. Population growth projections were limited and evaluation of population growth into supply and storage needs was also limited. In addition, the future demand for replacement water for well augmentation had not been quantified. 1 '