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Page 2 of 3 <br /> <br />Kevin Rein <br />Kevin is the Assistant State Engineer – Intrastate Water Supply and Litigation in the Denver office of the <br />Division of Water Resources (State Engineer’s Office). In addition to providing support to the State <br />Engineer on general matters, Kevin manages and is directly involved with the teams that perform well <br />permitting, subdivision water supply review, substitute water supply plan review, water court activity <br />review and numerous other duties associated with the administration of surface and ground water in <br />the state. Kevin is a native of Colorado, a registered professional engineer in the state, and has worked <br />for the Division of Water Resources for the past twelve years. <br />Thomas W. Ley, PE, PhD <br />Tom is the Chief Program Manager of the Hydrographic and Satellite Monitoring Branch for the Colorado <br />Division of Water Resources. Duties include coordination with cooperating Federal, State and private <br />entities; coordination with the State Engineer and other sections of the Division of Water Resources; <br />management of the expenditure of the funds allocated to the program; streamflow record review and <br />quality control; and direct operation and maintenance of local stream gages. Tom is also responsible for <br />the two periodic publications of the section: a periodic report on the status of the Satellite-Linked Water <br />Resources Monitoring System (SMS) and the annual publication of final stream flow records developed <br />by the Branch each water year. Additional on-going work activities include technical coordination of <br />projects with Colorado State University (CSU) and the Colorado Water Conservation Board to: 1) <br />improve and enhance the CoAgMet weather network in the lower Arkansas River Valley, and 2) <br />establish, operate, and manage two precision weighing lysimeters for crop coefficient research at the <br />CSU Arkansas Valley Research Center in Rocky Ford CO. <br />Tom’s education includes a PhD, Irrigation Engineering at Utah State University, Logan UT in 1995, <br />hydraulic design; water supply development and conveyance; stochastic hydrology; surface, sprinkle and <br />trickle irrigation design; biophysics of plant canopies; applied soil physics; experimental design; drainage <br />engineering. MS, Agricultural Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO in 1978, Irrigation <br />and Drainage, groundwater hydrology; natural resources law; managerial considerations in irrigation <br />engineering; irrigation pumping systems; drainage. BS, Agricultural Engineering, Colorado State University, <br />Ft Collins CO in 1977, hydraulic engineering; hydrology; soil mechanics; fluid mechanics; surface <br />irrigation; sprinkler irrigation; engineering statistics; Fortran programming. <br />Tom’s previous work experience includes Senior Irrigation Engineer, Winrock International, EPIQ Water <br />Policy Team, Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources, Imbaba, Cairo, Egypt. (Acting Team Leader/ <br />Chief of Party from 1997 to 1998. These duties consisted of a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, <br />economists and sociologists working with senior-level Ministry officials to analyze current water <br />resources management policy and practice in Egypt and develop recommended strategies for policy <br />enhancements and reforms needed to maximize the overall utilization efficiency and productivity of <br />Egypt’s water resources, primarily the Nile River. From 1983 to 1997 Tom was the Extension Irrigation <br />Engineer and Associate Professor for the Cooperative Extension at Washington State University for the <br />Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, WA.