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" Metropolitan Water Supply Investigation Proposal Hydrosphere, Inc. Septmber 17, 1993 Page 34 MWSI Project Goals and Objectives In order to effectively identify and support cooperative solutions to Denver metro area water supply problems the MWSI Project must achieve three objectives: 1) create a technically facilitated planning process among water users, 2) develop an analytical capability sufficient for evaluating the water supply yield and determining the operational aspects of a variety of relatively complex water supply opportunities, and 3) conduct technical investigations as needed specific to at least three most promising water supply opportunities which may include a Barr Lake Plan, the Southern Water Supply Project and the conjunctive use of non-tributary groundwater. The MWSI Project should result in a reconnaissance level evaluation of the most promising Denver metro area water supply options, captured in an executive level report. A Technically Facilitated Planning Process Because of its breadth of scope, the MWSI Project cannot occur in a vacuum. The MWSI Project must include a strong cooperative process component in order to foster collaborative planning efforts among water users and to take advantage of existing areas of information and expertise. This process should allow for frequent and informal meetings with key technical people from interested water providers for the purposes of brainstorming, sharing of information and discussing findings. The Contractor should act as "technical facilitators" by having in-depth knowledge of metro area water rights and water supply issues and a wide range of analytical capabilities. This in-depth level of background knowledge will serve to enhance the collaborative aspects of the process by assisting water users in identifying ways to meet their individual needs through cooperative measures, and providing an added value service through effective evaluation of water supply options that involve the integration of elements of existing systems that have historically operated in a disparate or competitive manner. There are several water supply planning efforts currently underway in the metro region, each of which are discussed below. The MWSI Project should be coordinated with these efforts in order to minimize duplication of effort, take advantage of available information and facilitate interaction among key technical people. Denver Water Studv - The Denver Water Department is in the process of enhancing its planning capability in order to address key water supply issues, both from Denver's perspective and to some degree from a metro area-wide perspective. This effort promises to be ambitious and far-reaching, although active cooperation by other players will be required for its ultimate success. While the scope of this study is still being defined, the first two years of this effort are focused on redeveloping Denver's modeling capability in order to better estimate its system yield under a variety of assumptions. Denver plans on making the resulting modeling tool publicly available. This tool is expected to have considerable flexibility for examining water supply options, although the model's ultimate capability to evaluate a wide range of system integration'opponunities from a metro area-wide perspective is unknown. Following this model development phase Denver plans to undertake a two to three year planning effort in collaboration with other water users to evaluate a range of new water supply sources and system management alternatives, focusing on those options which would utilize excess flows divertible under Denver's water rights (e.g. its "Two Forles spills"), its excess