The Bureau of Reclamation's Fryingpan-Arkansas project is a transmountain diversion which supplies southeastern Colorado with an improved water supply, flood control, hydroelectric power generation and wildlife and recreational benefits. Each year an average of 69 KAF of water is diverted from the western slope to storage in four reservoirs on the eastern slope with over 100 water accounts. The need to provide for efficient power generation; make water available for recreational flow management; and exercise water rights; results in a complex set of conditions which change daily.

The existing FryArk Program is a tightly constrained Oracle database application that is difficult to assess or change and cannot be used for any other function. By changing to a Riverware accounting model, we are able to manage accounts on a daily basis transparently for the State, the water district and our account holders. We can incorporate conditions from contracts, decrees, stipulations, MOUs, MOAs and experience in ways that cannot be tracked in spreadsheets or database applications. The model can also be used for short and long term forecasts.

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