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. . METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY INVESTIGATION PROJECT SUMMARY OCTOBER 28.1993 I. MWSI PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES In order to effectively identify and support cooperative solutions to Denver metro area water supply problems the MWSI Project has three objectives: . A. Create A Technically Facilitated Planning Process Because of its breadth of scope, the MWSI Project will not occur in a vacuum. The MWSI Project will include a strong cooperative process component intended to foster collaborative planning efforts among water users and to take advantage of . existing areas of information and expertise. This process will 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. B. Develop A Comprehensive Analytical Capability The MWSI Project will aim toward the development of a modeling tool capable of evaluating a variety of methods for increasing metro area water supplies through cooperative operation of individual water supply systems. Ultimately this should include the capability to estimate overall system yield when individual water systems are operated in a cooperative rather than competitive mode. The MWSI Project should also be able to articulate such a mode of operation in terms of prior appropriation language, in order to address such questions as how the SEa would administer such an arrangement, and what sort of agreements among water users would be required. C. Conduct Specific Water Supply Investigations At a minimum, three conceptual water supply concepts will be refined into specific mechanisms and will be examined individually and in combination with respect to their water supply yield benefits to the metro Denver area, their project costs, their impacts on agricultural water users and groundwater levels, and their effects in other areas such as water quality, wildlife habitat and flood control. The Governor's Executive Order has identified three opportunities which will be the subject of these special studies: I} some version of the proposed Barr Lake Plan; 2} conjunctive use of non-tributary groundwater; and 3) cooperative integration of metro Denver and northern water supply systems. With regard to these specific investigations, the MWSI Project will focus on technical aspects, and should not get bogged down in institutional issues; however, it should identify and articulate what those institutional issues are.