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<br />PROJECT PLANNING AND CONTROL <br /> <br />The Project is operated to provide supplemental municipal and industrial water supply, irrigation <br />water supplies, hydroelectric power production, flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife <br />preservation, and other purposes. The Project is operated for the purposes for which it was <br />authorized and constructed. <br /> <br />The integrated operation of the Project is planned and coordinated by the Bureau of Reclamation, <br />Resources Division, Eastern Colorado Area Office in Loveland, Colorado. 1bis office collects and <br />analyzes information daily and makes the decisions necessary for successful operation of the <br />Project. This continuous water management function involves coordination between the Northern <br />Colorado Water Conservancy District, Upper Colorado and Great Plains Regions of Reclamation, <br />North Platte and Bighorn Basin Projects of Reclamation, the Department of Energy, and many <br />other local, state, and Federal agencies. <br /> <br />Experience has proven that proper utilization of the available water resource in a multi-purpose <br />Project such as this can be achieved only through careful budgeting and management of the <br />anticipated water supply. The technical end product of this budgeting and management process <br />is an Annual Operating Plan (AOP). <br /> <br />The Project is operated on a water year basis (October I through September 30). The AOP is <br />prepared in October or November of each year, following the plan's review and necessary public <br />meetings. AOPs are prepared for reasonable maximum and reasonable minimum conditions of <br />water supply and requirements as well as for the most probable runoff conditions. The Project is <br />operated to optimize the most probable water supply without jeopardizing operational position <br />should either the reasonable maximum or the reasonable minimum water supply conditions occur. <br />V. 'hen lIeee33!l1'Y, The plan is reviewed and revised a&necessaI)! during the year as new information <br />or changing conditions occur. Flexibility is a keynote and a necessity of the plan. Computer <br />programs are used by Reclamation to develop the AOP's and water supply forecasts. <br /> <br />fileaame: CBTA0P98,DFf <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />Prelimiluay Working Draft July B, 1999 <br />