WSPC03849

• File Number: 8283.200
• Description: Colorado River Computer Models - Colorado River Decision Support System ‎(RAY)‎
• State: CO
• Basin: Western Slope
• Date: 9/12/1996
• Title: Dept of Natural Resources: Information Management Annual Plan ‎(IMAP)‎
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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Completed Harvest Surveys for customer feedback related to their hunting .'JI
experience; and W:i

. DOW created a Technology Advisory Group (TAG) to provide a forum to set
realistic goals and objectives for effective use of technology in the division
and to ensure a close customer relationship with the technology unit.

Colorado WINS

. Installed a TCP/lP Wide-Area Network in five of seven water division
offices;

e Completed the GIS component of the water well permitting system;

. Completed the water commissioner data collection toolkit project statewide;

. Implemented a comprehensive in-house training program for desktop tools;

. Completed GIS coverage of irrigated acreages on the West Slope;

. Retained the current project manager of Leonard Rice consulting Water
Engineers and entered into a contract for the continued management of the .A\
Colorado River Decision Support System (CROSS); .

. Developed a detailed budget and scope of work for the first phase of the
year 3 development. Developed a preliminary budget and scope for the
second phase of the third year of CROSS development and the fourth
development year of CROSS;

. Boyle Engineering Corporation was added as a new consultant to the
CROSS development team; and

· Completed year 2 activities include population of the relational (Le. water
rights, diversions, streamflows) and spatial databases (irrigated acreage,
elevation, structures) to support planning activities; created interfaces to
relational data through the Internet link; developed a workstation based user
interface to spatial data; implemented a consumptive use model and
associated user interface for the west slope of Colorado that estimates both
crop and non-crop consumptive uses for Colorado's west slope; and
developed basin water resource models for the Yampa, White,
Sanjuan/Dolores and upper Colorado mainstream with consideration of
approximately 75% of the current water use in a basin. A graphical user
interface has also been developed for these models.

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