Water Resources Research & Studies

Research to support the ownership and historical use of water rights coordinated with water resources engineering efforts that help maximize value and use of assets and identify the need for additional supplies to provide security for future operations.

Representative Projects:

  • Augmentation station projects – Review of use and operations in the context of augmentation plans requiring delivery of changed water rights to the river system
  • Aquifer storage and recovery design project
  • Drought management study using stochastic models
  • Evaluation of highest and best use of properties, and associated water rights, subject to municipal condemnation
  • Municipal lawn irrigation return flow studies
  • Performance and cost analyses of MTBE-remediation technologies, including presentation of results at Fate, Transport, and Remediation of MTBE at Geochemistry Educational Seminar / Workshop
  • Platte River Recovery Program – Research and analysis of various water supply alternatives identified tin North Platte, South Platte, and Central Platte Rivers to deliver water to endangered species’ critical habitat in Grand Island, Nebraska, including presentation of results to groups of stakeholders in Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska
  • Property ownership and Brighton Ditch Company share use investigation
  • Reliability evaluation of present and future Nacimiento Reservoir and San Antonio Reservoir (San Luis Obispo County, California) recharge operations to minimize salt water intrusion to municipal ground water supply well fields
  • South Platte River call research, analysis, and recommended revisions to call records for Water Division 1 office
  • Water Division 1 well augmentation plan analysis and summary