BOARD00151 ‎(3)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 3/12/2007
• Description: WSP Section - Animas-La Plata Project Updates - Intergovernmental Agreement Establishing the ALP Operations and Maintenance Association and Proposed Concept Paper
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management and the South Platte ET network
operated by the Northem Colorado Water Conservancy District.

Great progress has been made in recent years in monitoring and providing timely information to
water managers, planners and the publ~c on statewide precipitation, snowpack water content,
streamflow, and reservoir levels. A critical piece of the hydrologic cycle essential for water
management and administration is evapo-lranspiration. ET is a function of weather conditions, time
of year, greenness of vegetation and availlable soil moisture. Data are now available from ground
measurements and satellite to model ET tates on a daily to multi-day time scale.' This project will
addr~ss this critical need and will work to Imake statewide maps of ET rates available throughout the
growmg season. .

Water Planning Relationship: This Iproject relates to the DSS, water information, and drought
and conservation planning programs of th~ CWCB.

Recommendation: Staff gives a low r~commendation for funding of this project because other
projects were high priorities and there are; problems with the quality and amount of data that could
be used for evapo-transpiration mapping. :This project should compliment the CWCB DSS and be
developed with the CWCB DSS staff to assist in obtaining DSS program objectives.
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4. CWCB Pre-Disaster Floodplain ~itigation Plans

Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor:
Amount of Request:

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CW9B, Various
$100,000

High

Ranking:

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Product Produced: The CWCB has ideptified a substantial need for floodplain mitigation plans .
and projects throughout Colorado. Funds from this program will be used to develop solutions to
mitigate impacts to floodplain lands, as w~ll as impacts to infrastructure from flooding along stream
and river corridors across the state. The Ifocus of this work will be to address local requests and
identify and design projects that can be implemented to reduce flood risk. The CWCB staff is
requesting this Severance Tax non-reimbutsable investment to provide a means of cost-sharing with
local entities, mitigation interests, and other agencies to accomplish the much needed floodplain
mitigation planning. Cost-sharing will bd emphasized when practicable to leverage the severance
tax dollars. ,
Water Planning Relationship: Mitigation planning is important to address flooding issues.
Floodplain maps identify flood threats but ~o not provide a means to develop altematives to mitigate
flood problems. This is a source of state f;unds that could match federal funds to be used by local
govemments for planning and designing solutions to flooding problems.
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Recommendation: Staff gives a high recommendation for funding of this project because even
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with the Flood Program leveraging significant funding for floodplain mapping and the Flood
Response Program, there is still a great rleed for funding to identify, design, and mitigate flood
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hazards in Colorado. 'I

5. Geomorphic Stability and Hydrau~ic Analysis

Beneficiary/Gran tee/Contractor:
Amount of Request:

USGS', Various
$79,000
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Ranking:

High

Product Produced:

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This proposed study compliments an ongoing study of geomorphic stability of
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