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CDSS Tools for Water Administration Through a joint effort between the Division of Water Resources and the Colorado Water Conservation Board a number of tools and data sets have been prepared as part of the DSS development to assist with water administration. These include: • CD’s of HydroBase by Division or Statewide. • GIS coverages of Water Resource Data • StateCU, a Consumptive Use Model. • AWAS, a Stream Depletion Analysis Tool The CD’s can be purchased from DWR’s records department. The other tools may be accessed from the “Colorado’s Decision Support Systems” (CDSS) homepage - http://cdss.state.co.us. On the menu bar of that page there is a “Products” item and beneath that “GIS” for GIS files, “Consumptive Use” for StateCU and “Other Tools” for the AWAS Tool. Following is a brief summary of each product: CD’s of data by Division or Statewide. CD’s are available that encompass most of HydroBase (only well permits are not included because of a prior sales agreements). The target audience is a user(s) who needs to perform large data queries and/or wants to work independently of the WWW. In addition the CD provides a permanent snap shot of the database upon which a decision or analysis may have been performed. The cost of a CD is $100 per Division or $500 for the entire State. It is refreshed on an annual basis by approximately June 1. As described previously the CD contains nearly all the data DWR collects (water rights, diversions, streamflows, water levels, dams, etc.). Other water resource data that is collected from other agencies include (climate from NOAA, Streamflow Water Levels from the USGS, Snow Pack from the NRCS, etc. In addition to HydroBase each CD contains GIS coverages and two data access tools, StateView and TsTool. StateView mimics the WWW data viewing tools without size limitations. TsTool provides various tools for manipulating and formatting time series data.