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Staff outlines integrated water-supply planning tied to Boulder comprehensive plan; scenarios show supply adequate under most futures
Summary
Utilities staff presented four future scenarios to inform an integrated water supply plan and the city’s comprehensive-plan update, finding Boulder’s municipal supply is broadly robust under three of four modeled scenarios but that more extreme climate impacts could create significant risk.
City water staff told the Water Resources Advisory Board on July 21 that the Boulder comprehensive-plan update — and the integrated water supply planning that will follow it — should together guide long-term decisions about how land use and water supply align through 2050.
Crystal Mori, senior engineer in Water Resources, led a presentation showing four future scenarios (optimistic, continuing trends, stressed and severe) that were run through the city’s water-supply models to test reliability under climate, Colorado River and demand uncertainties. Mori said staff will develop a formal integrated water supply plan after the comprehensive-plan update is complete; that plan will combine supply, demand and conservation options and evaluate trade-offs among affordability, environmental effects and level of service.
Mori and other staff summarized key findings:…
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