Rio Grande - 2008 Riparian Stabilization Project - Application

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COStS. • Helps to offset many human impacts on the Rio Grande, particularly those relating to unrestricted grazing practices • Repairs and enhances deteriorated riparian conditions, restores stream bank stability, and mitigates the effects and causes of a significantly modified river system. • Avoids furtherdeterioration in the channel • Supports Rio Grande's Basin and interbasin cooperation and improves the ability of Colorado to fulfill its commitments underthe Rio Grande Compact by facilitating passage of mandated waters under the Rio Grande Compact. b. The number and types of entities represented in the application and the degree to which the activity will promote cooperation and collaboration among traditional consumptive water interests and/or non-consumptive interests, and, if applicable, the degree to which the water activity is effective in addressing intrabasin or interbasin needs or issues. • Twelve miles of river frontage will be restored, involving a minimum of five land owners in the continued implementation of the 2001 Study's recommendations. • The following mix of stakeholders demonstrates a high level of cooperation and collaboration among traditional consumptive water interests and non- consumptiveinterests: Mosca Hooper Conservation District; San Luis Valley Water Conservancy District; Natural Resources Conservation Service (MRCS); Colorado Division of Wildlife; San Luis Valley Wetlands Focus Committee; US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS); US Army Corps of Engineers (COE); San Luis Valley GIS/GPS Authority; Rio Grande Water Conservation District; and the Colorado Division of Water Resources, Division Engineer. • Public information and outreach will be provided by public meetings, radio interviews, and presentations to specific groups, including the SLV Wetlands Area Focus Committee, Rio Grande Interbasin Roundtable, Quarterly Board Meetings of the Rio Grande Water Conservancy District and Board Meetings of the San Luis Valley Water Conservancy District. In addition, public awareness and community education efforts will specifically target landowners with river bank properties. Authoritative support has been gathered through letters of endorsement from various agencies and organizations and from all affected county and municipal governments, water users and other interested stakeholders. Facilitating Water Activity Implementation c. How funding will reduce uncertainty that water activity will be implemented. • The 2001 Study identified specific problems associated with the function of the river and made recommendations for their mitigation. Funding for this Project can only be obtained through third parties, first because the cost of implementing these mitigating measures is high, and second because ownership of the specific reach of the Rio Grande addressed by this Project is only by private and municipal entities. • The Foundation simply does not have the resources to fund a project of this magnitude. The function of the Foundation is to enable, facilitate, coordinate, and