One of the founders of Hydrosphere (now part of AMEC Earth & Environmental), Lee Rozaklis has over 30 years’ experience in water resources planning and management, with recognized expertise in hydrologic analysis, modeling of water supply systems, water rights engineering, economic and policy analysis, public involvement, and demand management. He holds an MS in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado. Much of Mr. Rozaklis’ experience involves analyses of water resources systems in complex physical and institutional settings.
Mr. Rozaklis was a principal co-investigator in a study of the vulnerability of the City of Boulder’s water supply system to potential climate change. This study involved the downscaled application of output from a suite of global climate models, portraying a range of potential future climate regimes upon the hydrology, water demands, and water rights affecting the Boulder Creek basin and the Colorado-Big Thompson and Windy Gap projects. Mr. Rozaklis provides a wide range of other services to the City of Boulder regarding water rights engineering, water supply system planning, instream flow program development, water demand forecasting, and water conservation.
He has also served as project manager and key technical analyst in several major water management and municipal water supply studies in Colorado, including the Upper Colorado River Basin Study, the Metropolitan Water Supply Investigation, and the Denver Basin and South Platte River Basin Technical Study. The latter study quantified the relationships between population growth, water supply options, Denver Basin groundwater pumping, transbasin diversions, and streamflow impacts to the South Platte River. It formed the analytical basis for Colorado’s plan for addressing the impacts of new, water-related activities on critical habitats for Platte River endangered species.