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" Metropolitan Water Supply Investigation Proposal Hydrosphere, Inc. Septmber 17, 1993 Page 39 4. OoDortunities Evaluation - This category includes the "Yield/Operations Analyses," FacilitieslFinancial Analysis," "Impact Assessment" and "Institutional Analysis" tasks and is designed to investigate water supply options in tenns of their yield and operational implications, facilities r~uirements and costs, potential environmental impacts and potential institutional issues. The consulting team will work closely with TSC in the scoping process and throughout the MWSI Project. The consulting team and the TSC would conduct the scoping effort through a series of work sessions, focusing on refining system integration proposals and identifying the ongoing studies, existing data, modeling tools, and other information relevant to these proposals and the existing metro Denver areas water supply systems that would be involved with their implementation. The availability of existing data and modeling tools will provide the basis for determining specific MWSI Project tasks and the design of any additional analytical tools needed to evaluate the proposed systems integration options in the overall context of existing municipal and agricultural water supply systems. The process described above will not only define existing and needed technical capabilities; it will also test the ability of the interested parties to work together in a cooperative manner toward the sharing of technical resources which have traditionally been used for adversarial and/or competitive advantage. If this process is successful in building the working relationships necessary for solving technical problems, then it may also serve to facilitate development of legal and institutional arrangements that will be necessary for the implementation of systems integration opportunities. Once system integration opportunities are initially identified and existing data, modeling tools, ongoing studies and other relevant information have been reviewed, the Study Plan would be refined to address the fi1\ ing in of data gaps and the development of additional analytical tools as needed for evaluating the proposed systems integration options. These tasks would be designed to maximize the use of existing information, expertise and analysis tools so that time and money are not wasted through duplication of efforts. After the scoping process has been completed, actual data gathering efforts and special studies to develop additional information would be conducted. These efforts would be undertaken partially by Hydrosphere and partially by other consultants identified in the scoping process as having particular strength and familiarity with a given area. After data gathering and special studies tasks are completed, a system integration modeling capability would be established, either by developing an independent modeling capability or by using an already developed capability, such as that being developed by Denver. This determination would be made at the end of the scoping process. This model would then be used in a co1\aborative sening to conduct extensive analyses of system integration possibilities in a cooperative and "shared information" sening. This aspect of the MWSI Project could be coordinated with Denver's anticipated planning efforts. Concurrent with modeling analyses, investigations of the facilities-related needs, environmental impacts and institutional aspects of the most promising system integration opportunities would be conducted.