Supply and Demand Analyses
Supply and demand analyses are an important aspect of water rights engineering. Martin and Wood personnel are involved in many projects for private and municipal entities to examine and quantify their current water supply and current and future water demands. This involves quantifying the yield of surface water rights under varying flow and river call conditions and evaluating available groundwater supplies.
Cañon City Project
Martin and Wood evaluated the adequacy of the City of Cañon City’s existing water rights to provide for the City’s future water requirements. For a 55-year study period, the calculated “natural” daily streamflow was determined and then distributed to each water right in the Cañon City area, in order of priority. This allowed the tracking of water deficits or shortages in the ability of the City’s existing water rights to satisfy the future water requirements, thereby providing information so that the City can identify the amounts of water needed in the future to render a full supply for the City’s needs. The study concluded that Cañon City has an adequate water supply to meet identified demands for a given period of time and needs further efforts to meet all demands for the long-term planning horizon. Recommendations for meeting future demands were then presented to the City.
