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<br />.~ .,~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />City of Ft. Collins <br /> <br />A comprehensive drought management study for the City of <br />Ft. Collins has been conducted which also involved extensive <br />utilization of MODSIM (Labadie, et at, 1986). <br /> <br />This study resulted in the City of Fort Collins formally <br />adopting MODSIM for their continuing water supply <br />planning. MODSIM is being used by the City's water <br />resources engineers with the City without any futher need for <br />training or the information from Colorado State University. <br /> <br />The Fort Collins water supply system contains elements such <br />that water may be drawn from a variety of physical sources. <br />Coupled with this are the exchanges of water rights which <br />increase the management complexity of the supply system. It <br />is this complexity that makes planning difficult because of the <br />myriad of possible alternatives and their impacts. <br /> <br />The focus of this case study was to determine safe annual <br />yield that could be realized under various assumed hydrologic <br />conditions. MODSIM was used to determine the safe annual <br />yield for the City's existing water rights as well as projected <br />future water rights which the City expects to acquire by the <br />year 2000. <br /> <br />The major components of the Fort Collins water supply <br />system are shown in the attached figure. This map represents <br />the geographical location of existing facilities available to the <br />City. Although the Fort Collins water supply facilities <br />interact directly with the Cache La Poudre river system, <br />modeling of the entire basin was thought to be unnecessary <br />for this study. A network was designed to isolate the Fort <br />Collins water supply system to simplify the required inputs to <br />the model without substantially detracting from reality. <br /> <br />8 <br />