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3.0 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE PLAN STRUCTURE AND CONTENT
A number of more specific recommendations for improving the planning process and products
are reported in the form of project technical memoranda. State agency water planning staff, and other
interested parties, should consult the following memoranda for more planning suggestions:
o Skeleton Review Material for Framework Water Plan, WWC Engineering, April
28, 2006.
o GIS Technical Memorandum, Greenwood Mapping, Inc., April 16, 2007.
o Vol. II – Future Wyoming Water Planning Technical Memorandum, Hinckley
Consulting, April 18, 2007.
o Presentation Tool Technical Memorandum, Greenwood Mapping, Inc.,
November 22, 2006.
o Recommendations and Ideas for Content and Structure of Future Basin Plans,
WWC Engineering, April 20, 2007.
3.3 BASIN PLAN ORDER
As part of the Framework planning process, the consulting team evaluated the order in which
future basin plans should be performed. Appendix C contains information related to this work. The
evaluation used a matrix approach that considered five factors, including:
! Completion date of last basin plan. The older the plan, the more deserving it was of an
update.
! Forecasted population increase. Basins with large projected population increases received
more consideration.
! Relative number of identified BAG issues. Basins with large issues lists received more
weight.
! Components of plan that need to be updated or improved. This factor is needed to address
deficiencies in the current plans.
! Relative number of compact issues. More weight was given to basins that appeared to have
more critical downstream state compact issues.
In addition to the forecasted population increase, the evaluation compared the 2000 census
population and estimated 2005 population for each basin to the projected range of populations reported in
each plan. This comparison was done graphically, and the results are included in Appendix C. As the
graphs in Appendix C show, all of the basin planning efforts have actual population estimates that match
up reasonably well with projected populations, with perhaps the exception of the Green River Basin.
The matrix evaluation combined with an interpretation of the population plots provides a basis for
recommending the following basin plan ordering for the next planning round:
! Green
! Powder/Tongue
! Northeast
! Wind/Bighorn
! Salt/Snake
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