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<br />Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form
<br />Form Revised May 2007
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<br />Apply best grazing management practices in riparian areas as required in landowner agreements, which state
<br />that planting and grazing management are a large portion of the participant's in-kind contribution.
<br />TASK 8: Grazing Management, Coordinate implementation of individualized landowner grazing management
<br />plans with USFWS guidance. Agreements with 10 landowners include time management and deferred grazing
<br />for three years. Product: Grazing management Cost: $80,000 (Landowner in-kind)
<br />TASK 9: Plant Vegetation, Plant native grasses, willows, and trees along approx. 40 acres of restored river
<br />corridor. Product: Revegetation of riparian area Cost: $10,000 (per COFS, NRCS estimates)
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<br />GOAL 4: IN-FIELD MONITORING (see also Maps 4, 5 attached)
<br />Determine restoration, sediment reduction, revegetation effectiveness
<br />Monitoring cross sections will be established at 15 sites in the restored channel reach. Quarterly photos
<br />from benchmarks will document changes over the 3 year period. ARWRF will monitor all installed structures,
<br />maintain the reach, and make repairs under normal flow conditions in order to maintain the channel function.
<br />Cross sections will be measured after work is completed in any given section of river, with work completed prior
<br />to spring runoff measured before high flow. Cross sections will be measured annually for at least 2 years
<br />following construction once a flow of near bankfull occurs. Significantly less than average flow during the first
<br />runoff will not constitute the trigger point for monitoring. Vegetation survey transects will be established at
<br />benchmarks to document recovery of willows, grasses, and cottonwoods.
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<br />TASK 10: Monitor erosion on restored and unrestored sites, 1) Install and survey 15 monitoring cross sections
<br />following construction. Re-survey once a year after runoff. 2) Conduct longitudinal profile after construction with
<br />follow up survey in 3rd monitoring year. Product: Document project effectiveness, estimate sediment reduction
<br />through monitoring, data manipulation, and report Cost: $12,000.00
<br />TASK 11: Monitor vegetation transects created before and during restoration, Monitor vegetation regrowth in
<br />treated areas, with 1 transect per property owner in current reach. Conduct monitoring once when the project is
<br />completed and annually thereafter in August. Duration: 15 days (10 field days, 5 days for data manipulation and
<br />report) Product: Monitored vegetation transects and report Cost: $12,600.00
<br />TASK 12: Data Management, Take existing data including maps, previous stream and riparian evaluations, and
<br />compile with current data. RC&D and the NRCS La Jara office will house all information, including progress
<br />reports. Product: Data compilation and reports. One copy of all reports to Rio Grande River Basin
<br />Roundtable/Rick Brown, SLV RC&D, CDPHE 319 NPS program/STORET, La Jara USDA NRCS Office, and to
<br />ARWRF. Cost: $600.00
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<br />COORDINATION PLAN
<br />Collaborators: San Luis Valley Resource Conservation & Development; Alamosa River Watershed Restoration
<br />Foundation; 10 local private landowners, 11 local ditch companies (names avail. on request).
<br />Technical Expertise: Steven Belz, Black Creek Hydrology, LLC, Northglenn, CO.
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<br />RC&D will manage the Alamosa River Restoration project with an MOU drawn up between the two groups to
<br />detail project responsibilities. RC&D currently has a written agreement with ARWRF to assist the group in
<br />obtaining funding and managing the project. ARWRF will be the responsible entity on-site in consultation with the
<br />hydrologist to oversee the river restoration work. SL V RC&D will have a written contract with the hydrologist so
<br />that work is performed to standards with his approval.
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<br />Coordination/Lines of Communication:
<br />1. Monthly progress reports to RC&D, with weekly updates as needed, from the hydrologist, on-site coordinator,
<br />and the ARWRF president.
<br />2. The hydrologist will coordinate invoices to go to RC&D for payment and bookkeeping.
<br />3. Jim Mietz, Coordinator of RC&D, will be the point person at RC&D for the project; Carol Gurule, administrative
<br />.assistant at RC&D, will handle the bookkeeping.
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