ABSTRACT
Water banking in the Colorado River Basin is an important concept for drought mitigation that involves both unique water-rights constraints, and complex policy-driven system operations.  StateMod is an excellent modeling framework for representing water-rights administration in Colorado, but it does not currently include many tools to implement reactive operational policies.  The Colorado River Simulation System (CRSS) RiverWare model includes representations of policy-driven operations throughout the Colorado River Basin, but the representation of the State of Colorado, particularly in terms of water rights administration, is less detailed than that of StateMod.  A methodology for combining the strengths of both StateMod and CRSS is presented here, along with some preliminary results from water banking scenarios modeled using the combined framework.

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