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<br />Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form <br />Form Revised May 2007 <br /> <br />2. Describe how the water activity meets these Threshold Criteria. <br /> <br />1. The water activity meets the eligibility requirements outlined in Part 2 of the Criteria and <br />Guidelines. <br /> <br />1) The EGWQB will seek approval for the Fraser River Settling Pond: Grand County project (The <br />Project) from the Colorado Basin Roundtable at their November meeting. <br />2) The Project is a structural water project, which fits in the category of eligible water activities, <br />and the EGWQB is a non-governmental organization, making the sponsoring agency an eligible <br />entity . <br />3) The Project meets several of the IBee and CWCB criteria (for this section, statewide criteria <br />were used. ) <br /> <br />The Project depends upon the collaboration and cooperation of multiple entities. Participants <br />include the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Sulphur Ranger District, <br />the Colorado Department of Transportation, Denver Water, Grand County, the East Grand Water <br />Quality Board, and the North Western Colorado Council of Governments, with support from the <br />United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, Colorado <br />Department of Public Health and the Environment, Colorado Division of Wildlife, and the <br />Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. As evidenced by this list, agencies include <br />Federal, State, and Local government, as well water users, and non-governmental agencies.. <br /> <br />The Project addresses primarily environmental, municipal, and economic needs. Benefits to <br />aquatic and riparian habitat include prevention of smothering of trout spawning and feeding <br />areas, and prevention of aggradation, migration, and erosion of the stream channel.. In the year <br />that sediments were removed from the previously constructed sediment pond, water and. <br />sanitation districts had to perform less maintenance on their intake pipes. In ~ddition, water and <br />sanitation districts should see improved drinking water quality, and reduced costs associated <br />with treating turbidity. If The Project succeeds in improving aquatic and riparian habitat, the <br />summer tourism economy in the region should improve, providing economic benefits to the <br />region and a better balance of summer and winter tourism. Finally, reducing the availability of <br />sediment will improve water quality both through reduced sediment load, and through the <br />filtering and stabilizing effects of healthy riparian areas. <br /> <br />Funding from the Water Supply Reserve Account is absolutely essential to the implementation <br />of this project. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has reserved $60,000 in <br />matching funds for this project, contingent upon meeting certain project deadlines set by CDOT. <br />If funding cannot be procured which enables progress to be made as closely as possible to <br />CDOT's schedule, that funding will likely be lost. <br /> <br />The revival of momentum. for completion of this Project in recent times has been remarkable. <br />This Project began with a 1995 non-point source grant for $114,000 to install the original <br /> <br />4 <br />