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Non-Reimbursable Application - CWCB Construction Fund Form Revised August 2004 5. Explain why you are requesting a grant, instead of a loan. (the Construction Fund exists primarily to provide low interest loans for the construction or rehabilitation of raw water projects. Non- reimbursable investments are approved only when the project or study is of statewide interest and benefits a wide range of people and organizations,and/or a large geographical area. Although several drainage districts have pledged substantial in-kind services to assist the study, they currently do not have sufficient assessments to provide money for researchers. The study involves a large tri-county effort that could lead to a large construction project in the future involving CWCB lending in the range of $1 to $6 million in value. This idea has to be properly cost/benefited because of its obvious potential expense to growers and communities in the area. The drainage districts in the lower valley regard the area-wide study as essential to properly estimating what is an affordable drainage rehabilitation and maintenance program to restore the subsurface and surface integrity of their systems. In addition, the study provides a long-awaited effort to properly assess the benefits of improved subsurface drainage in irrigated ! areas throughout Colorado. The study will benefit substantially from on- going research being conducted by Colorado State University on water table and salinity studies in the Lower Arkansas Valley. The on-going CSU research, funded in part by the CSU Agricultural Experiment Station, will allow a CWCB-funded drainage system study to very effectively assess the economic benefits of improved drainage in a historically important agricultural area of the state. Thereby, the study will generate improved methods to assess the potential benefits of drainage rehabilitation and/or 1 construction in many other long-established irrigated areas of the state. 6. List the names and addresses of any technical or legal consultants retained to represent the applicant or to conduct investigations for the proposed project or study. Name Address&Phone Number John Wilkins-Wells (PI) , Dept. of Sociology, CSU, 970-491-5635 Terence Podmore (co-PI) , Dept of Civil Engineering, CSU, 970-491-1624 Ramchand Oad (co-PI) , Dept. of Civil Engineering, CSU, 970-491-7682 Timothy Gates, (co-PI) , Dept. of Civil Engineering, CSU, 970-491-5043 Eugene Kelly (faculty) , Dept of Soil and Crop Sciences, CSU, 970-491-6881 Dan Morasch (consultant) , South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, 509-547- 1735 Terry DeWitt (contractor) , Dewitt Excavating, Lamar, 719-336-8150 List any feasibility study or scope of work that has been completed or is now in progress for the proposed project or study.(Submit one copy with this application): A full scope of work is attached to this form. Briefly, the project will commence immediately with selecting a beta subsurface drainage system to measure the benefits and costs of the three different rehabilitation scenarios. The beta drainage system will be a small drainage network, such as the Kornman Drainage District subsurface drainage network, or a portion of the Wiley of Big Bend Drainage District. The beta drainage system will have monitoring wells, and will be thoroughly cleaned and rehabilitated as needed, using modern methods, with the addition of new observation manholes and water measurement stations as needed to properly conduct the benefit/cost analysis. The entire subsurface (and surface collector) drainage system network in the tri-county area will be mapped using GIS/GPS and evaluated as to its current condition and performance. Some GIS, water contour, monitoring well and soils data for these initial activities has already been partially assembled by the on-going Agricultural Experiment Station-funded CSU research project.