Best Paper Award at EWRI!

Precision Water Resources Engineering is proud to announce that our Utah Colorado River Accounting and Forecasting (UCRAF) team received the Best Paper Award at the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress (EWRI) for the paper, “Development of the Diversion Runoff Calculator to Estimate Agricultural Water Consumption and Irrigation Diversions at the Field- to Basin-Scale in Northeastern Utah,” published in the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. The effort was led by Mike Follum with Follum Hydrologic Solutions, our key subcontractor on this project.  The recognition highlights the team’s innovative work advancing agricultural water-use estimation and basin-scale water management tools in Northeastern Utah. Team members traveled to Mobile, Alabama to accept the award on behalf of the Colorado River Authority of Utah, Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Follum Hydrologic Solutions, & Precision Water Resources Engineering.

To find a copy of the article, please refer to the following link: https://doi.org/10.1061/JIDEDH.IRENG-10452

UCRAF Brush and Ashley Creeks System Site Tour

 The PWRE UCRAF Team recently traveled to Vernal, Utah to kick off the renewal of the UCRAF-DST contract with the Colorado River Authority of Utah (CRAU). The renewal expands the UCRAF-DST into the Brush Creek and Ashley Creek (BCAC) basins and extends coverage to the remainder of the Colorado River Basin in Utah. As part of the kickoff, the team joined CRAU, Division of Water Rights (DWRi), Uintah Water Conservancy District (UWCD) personnel, and River Commissioners on a basin tour of key water conveyance and storage infrastructure in the BCAC basins.

Tour highlights included a visit to Red Fleet Reservoir — a critical water storage facility flanked by impressive geologic formations (pictured) and fossils. The PWRE team is excited to be back at work on this important project and looks forward to what's ahead!

Lianne Daugherty returns to Precision!

Lianne Daugherty is excited to return to Precision as a part-time contractor. In 2025, she took a career pause to focus on her family. She has returned to facilitate an employee mentorship pilot program. The structure will be different from a standard mentoring program, in that it holds space for employees and where they are at in all aspects of life: career, technical, and personal.  Ms. Daugherty is excited to build intentional yet organic relational connection between employees, which will in turn foster the already robust company culture.

Precision welcomes Marin MacDonald to their team!

Marin received her B.S. and M.S in Watershed Science at Colorado State University, with an emphasis on snow-water resources. For her M.S thesis, she used remotely sensed data to characterize snowmelt timing in post-fire landscapes of Colorado. She has worked as a water quality consultant, weather and avalanche forecaster, and water resource scientist. Marin is excited to apply her background in hydrology to interdisciplinary water resource problems. Welcome Marin!

New Bureau of Reclamation Contract

Precision is thrilled to announce a new contract with the Bureau of Reclamation to evaluate the 1997 Operating Criteria and Procedures (OCAP) for the Newlands Project in western Nevada. Partnering with Barr Engineering and Follum Hydrologic Solutions, Precision will develop recommendations using the best available science, data, and technology to improve the operations defined by OCAP.

New Task Order for Oklahoma City

PWRE is proud to announce that we have been awarded a new Task Order to continue work in supporting Oklahoma City in optimizing its raw water system planning and management. PWRE is grateful for the opportunity to continue our work alongside Brown & Caldwell and Nazarenus Stack & Wombacher on behalf of Oklahoma City!

Precision Water Resources Engineering Selected for Great Salt Lake Basin Study Modeling Services

We are proud to announce our selection, alongside teaming partner Hydros Consulting Inc., to provide modeling services for the Great Salt Lake Basin Study — one of the most significant water resources planning efforts in the western United States.

Awarded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Provo Area Office in partnership with the Utah Division of Water Resources, this project tasks the Hydros-Precision team with developing the Great Salt Lake Basin River Planning Model (GSL-RPM) in RiverWare™. The model will simulate operations across the Bear River, Weber River, Utah Lake, Jordan River, and Great Salt Lake systems, serving as the primary decision-support tool for evaluating water management alternatives under both historical and projected future climate conditions — directly informing the Great Salt Lake Basin Integrated Plan (GSLBIP).

Precision brings exceptional institutional knowledge to this effort. Our team developed several of the existing RiverWare models that will form the GSL-RPM's foundation. Combined with our work on in the Truckee River and Colorado River basins, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a world-class planning model for this critically important basin.

The Great Salt Lake has experienced dramatic declines in recent decades, making this project not just a technical milestone but an urgent environmental and economic priority for Utah and the broader region. We are honored to contribute alongside our partners at Hydros Consulting, Reclamation, and UDWRe.

New Project for the State of Wyoming

We are excited to announce Precision will partner with Follum Hydrologic Solutions to estimate transit losses for the State of Wyoming in the Green River Basin. We are thrilled to work with FHS and the wonderful folks at the Wyoming State Engineer’s Office to address novel and challenging questions in a critical watershed.