Brown Bag Seminar: Colorado River Simulation System (CRSS) — Overview & Use Planning & Operation

Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Room (350 N. Campbell Ave.)
Speaker: Don Gross, Water Resources Engineer, Colorado River Management

Don Gross’s Brown Bag presentation will include a brief history of the development the Colorado River Simulation System (CRSS), and its structure. This will be followed by an overview of the various planning studies in which CRSS was used, and information on how CRSS is utilized in operation of the Colorado River.

Don Gross has more than 40 years of experience in water resources planning and management in the Southwest. He is currently a water resources engineer with the Arizona Department of Water Resources’ (ADWR) Colorado River Management Section. He is involved in numerous aspects of the Colorado River, which include supply, water use, accounting, contracts, hydrology, Colorado River modeling, and the Central Arizona Project. Don was ADWR’s lead technical specialist for the Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study. Don has been with ADWR for 26 years and has worked in the following areas: water rights adjudications, surface water rights, dam safety, and program management.

Prior to working for ADWR, Don was a project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District for 16 years. He  was responsible for water resource planning studies including; the Phoenix Urban Study, the Las Vegas Wash and Tributaries Water Resource Study, and the Los Angeles County Drainage Area Study. Don was also the Corps’ lead project engineer for the Central Arizona Water Control Study, a cooperative water resource planning study with the United States Bureau of Reclamation. This study resulted in the construction of Plan 6, which included dam safety repairs to several of SRP’s dams and the construction of New Waddell Dam.