To: SNWA hearing

Cc: Jason King; Tim Wilson

Subject: SNWA hearing

Mr. Taggart and Mr. Herskovits: As to your emails regarding issues as to Dr. Myers’ model files and versions of software used, I first note that I find it concerning that this type of issue is being addressed via email only addressed to us. Mr. Herskovits is taking the lead for many other parties in this matter and they are building cases off of his case. They are not noticed on your emails of your issues and we do not see this as a procedural question. We believe that you should be resolving this matter between yourselves or you should formally present your objections as to the modeling evidence as a part of the cases you present. I encourage you to resolve this problem promptly as we do not want to be arguing exclusion of evidence at the hearing. I remind you that the State Engineer’s instruction was that any model used in this hearing must be able to be run by other parties. This means that the model is publically available at no additional cost.

Susan Joseph-Taylor

Chief Hearings Section

Nevada Division of Water Resources

From: Simeon Herskovits [mailto:simeon@communityandenvironment.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 3:59 PM
To: Rick Felling; Susan Joseph-Taylor
Cc: 'Paul Taggart'
Subject: An additional Myers data folder

Hi Rick and Susan:

Yesterday evening, Paul Taggart emailed me letting me know that in their review of Tom Myers’ reports and data files, they determined that they were missing the same two folders you called about (which we already have sent to you on disks).  In addition, however, they determined that another model run described in Myers’ Part C report on Spring Valley also was missing from the disk of Tom’s data files.  They label this run as “SNWA pumping 60 kaf transient solution for Spring Valley.” 

I checked with Tom about it this morning, and he was surprised and apologized for having forgotten to send that folder of data files with the rest.  He has now sent that to us, and we are sending it to you, SNWA, and the rest of the parties to make sure everyone has a full set of Tom’s data files.  (Tom labels the folder of data files for the additional model run identified by SNWA as “modflow spring snwa pumping 60 kaf.”)

With regard to the Groundwater Vistas software issue raised in Paul’s email today, I have consulted with Tom about the issue and believe that SNWA is mistaken.  Tom reports that he produced and sent straightforward MODFLOW files, as required by the State Engineer and as he did for both the 2006 Spring Valley and 2008 Cave, Dry Lake, and Delamar Valleys hearings, which are all that is required to run his model.  Tom added that the Groundwater Vistas software is not necessary at all to run the model.

So, GBWN disagrees about the need for the Groundwater Vistas software to run Tom Myers’ model. 

Sincerely,

Simeon

Simeon Herskovits

Advocates for Community and Environment

P.O. Box 1075

El Prado, New Mexico 87529

Phone:  575-758-7202

Fax:      575-758-7203

Email:   simeon@communityandenvironment.net

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