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<br />2 <br /> <br />Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District to complete the equipment expenditures for <br />this site. <br /> <br />3. Installation of the Grayback SNOTEL site. This site is located in the Rio Grande basin <br />near the divide between the mainstcm oflhe Rio Grande and the headwaters ortlle <br />Canejas River. Similar to the other sites, this site was located near the existing Grayback <br />snow course. This snow course has been manually measured since 1967 and can provide <br />extremely difficult access during years with heavy snowfall. This course is also an <br />important site which correlates very well with runofTat several forecast points within the <br />Rio Grande basin. Using the ewes funds, and the additional funding provided by the <br />Rio Grande Conservation District this site will help provide valuable snowpack <br />inlomlatioll for watcr managers in the Rio Grande basin for years to come. <br /> <br />As you can see from the above cxamples, CWCS Sevcrance Tax Trust Funds were utilized to <br />help leverage local funding which will assist local water uscrs and the NRCS in water <br />management activities. The total gnmt of515,OOO was used to leverage an additional 525,500 in <br />local funding. The NRCS has contributed the in-kind assistance of installation, and ongoing <br />operation and maintenance of these sites into the future. <br /> <br />Thanks again for your assistance and help in providing this valuable assistance to these local <br />water management groups. As I mentioned above. without this grant. it's unlikely that these sites <br />would have been installed. I am sure that these new SNOTEL sites will help provide valuable <br />infonnation to \....ater users in these basins for many years to come. It is through opportunities <br />like this that allow liS to continuc 10 consider our program as the Cooperative Snow Survey <br />Program of the NRCS. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />MICHAEL A. GILLESPIE <br />SIlO\.... Survey Supcrvisor <br />