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<br />~, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ATIACHMENT C <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />WATER SUPPLY PLANNING STUDIES <br /> <br />1. DENVER WATER STUDY <br /> <br />The Denver Water Department is in the process of enhancing its planning capability in order <br />to address key water supply issues, both from Denver's perspective and to some degree from a metro <br />area-wide perspective. This effort promises to be ambitious and far-reaching, although active <br />cooperation by other players will be required for its ultimate success. <br /> <br />While the scope of this study is still being defmed, the first two years of this effort are <br />focused on redeveloping Denver's modeling capability in order to better estimate its system yield <br />under a variety of assumptions. Denver plans on making the resulting modeling tool publicly <br />available. This tool is expected to have considerable flexibility for examining water supply options, <br />although the model's ultimate capability to evaluate a wide range of system integration opportunities <br />from a metro area-wide perspective is unknown. <br /> <br />Following this model development phase Denver plans to undertake a two to three year <br />planning effort in collaboration with other water users to evaluate a range of new water supply <br />sources and system management alternatives, focusing on those options which would utilize excess <br />flows divertible under Denver's water rights (e.g. its "Two Forks spills"), its excess system facility <br />capacity and its reclaimable effluent. This portion of Denver's study is still in the formative phases <br />and could benefit greatly by a coordinated and complementary State effort. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />While the Denver study will address concerns specific to the operation of Denver's system <br />and will contribute much toward identifying metro area water supply options, it does not appear to <br />be sufficiently scoped to address the entire subject area from a metro area-wide or state-wide <br />perspective due to both budgetary and political factors; Denver cannot reasonably be expected to do <br />other peoples' planning and Denver must be able to express its own self interest during the planning <br />process. This suggests a critical role for the MWSI Project to play in conjunction with Denver's <br />efforts . <br /> <br />For example, while the Denver model will include a simple representation of the Burlington <br />diversions, it will probably not examine the operation of the Barr Lake system in sufficient detail to <br />allow for a credible assessment of several aspects the Barr Lake Plan as proposed. In addition it will <br />not be addressing any opportunities related to northern Colorado water supply systems. <br /> <br />The MWSI Project should complement Denver's efforts by: <br /> <br />1. Filling in informational and modeling "holes" through independent but <br />coordinated efforts, thereby providing additional technical input to Denver's <br />efforts ; <br /> <br />C-l <br /> <br />e <br />