Andre Dozier Met with Poudre River Commissioner Mark Simpson:
- Water management at what time scale: daily, weekly, or monthly? Daily
- Who calls, ditch companies or individual farmers? ditch companies
- Do they have to call by a particular time? anytime between 6a – 6p
- What if senior water rights holder calls after junior water right? shut the junior water right holder off
- What about bifurcations in the system? …
- What about lagged flows between junior water right and senior water right? do best to estimate upstream impacts, not bad within poudre basin 12-18 hours travel time… sometimes pull from reservoir at closer location until possible later
- Locations of point-of-use required for your analysis or just point-of-diversion? just POD
- For modeling purposes, where can we assume point-of-use is? use diversions for water allocation modeling… irrigation service area divided into the irrigated land or cities for POU for hydrologic modeling purposes
- How do you communicate with other parts in the South Platte to ensure that you’re not allowing a Junior water right holder in Poudre to use a Senior water right holder’s water elsewhere along the South Platte? Poudre is senior… can’t always fill reservoirs because of water rights downstream
- Are decisions today made with potential future precipitation in mind? not really
- Why are some water rights tied to diversion structures many many miles away? And why do diversion structures say that they pull water from river many miles away? may be diverting water through man-made structure (pipe or something) that moves the water a long way from the stream
- What gauges are you most interested in? CDWR gauges at canyon mouth (subtract transbasin additions from Gran Lake, Michigan, Larimie, Wilson, and account for reservoir delivery) and below New Cache
- Where would I get information about storage rights? Northern Water… don’t know if it’s public
Andre Dozier is a Ph.D. student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program at Colorado State University where he also received a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree and M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a concentration in water resources planning and management. He worked as an Engineer in Training at Natural Resources Consulting Engineers, Inc. for three-and-a-half years during his undergraduate and graduate studies, and served either as a Graduate Research Assistant or a Research Fellow on a variety of projects related to water and power systems operations, water rights, irrigation design, artificial intelligence, and climate change funded by the Department of Energy, Hydro Research Foundation, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. His current research deals with citizen science approaches for water management, interdisciplinary model integration and synthesis, optimization, and decision support to investigate water management solutions under uncertainty in climate, population, land use, and energy preferences. He is or has been a member of ASCE, COSHA, IEEE, and iEMSs, and has received a number of awards and scholarships such as the NSF IGERT Fellowship, IEEE PES Student Paper Prize Award in Honor of T. Burke Hayes, Hydro Research Foundation Fellowship, Borland Advanced Graduate Student, and Colorado Distinguished Scholar Award.
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