BOARD00190

• Board Meeting Date: 7/24/2000
• Description: ISF Section - Proposed GOCO Planning Grant
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

- STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.dnr.state.co.us/cwcb

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Bill Owens
Governor

MEMORANDUM

Greg E.Walcher
Executive Director

Peter H. Evans
CWCB Director

To:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

From: Dan Merriman
Todd Doherty

Date: July 3, 2000

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Re:

Agenda Item 10, July 24-25, 2000, Board Meeting-
Stream and Lake Protection - Proposed GOCO Planning Grant

Staff has been meeting with the Colorado Division of Wildlife and Trout Unlimited to discuss
the possibility of becoming joint applicants for a Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) planning
grant to help fund a "Needs Assessment" of the streams in Colorado. The Needs Assessment
would provide the CWCB staff, CWCB Board members and other interested parties the
necessary information regarding the appropriation, acquisition and monitoring of Colorado's
instream flows. While the grant partners will perform a portion of the Needs Assessment, much
of the work will be completed by consultants. One reason for partnering with DOW and TU is
that GOCO prefers to support projects where multiple agencies and/or non-profit organizations
are involved. In addition, the CWCB is not an authorized recipient of GOCO funds.
Specifically, local governments municipalities, counties, park and recreation special districts,
Colorado State Parks, Colorado Division of Wildlife, and non-profit land conservation
organizations are eligible recipients,

The proposed Needs Assessment will consist of two major components. First, biologic,
hydrologic and.socio-economic data for Colorado's streams would be compiled and arranged in a
graphical format (i.e. GIS) for analysis. All of the data used for this assessment will be existing
data taken from various entities including the Colorado Division of Wildlife, CWCB, and other
state, federal and local governments. By compiling various biologic, hydrologic and socio-
economic data in one assessment, staff and policy-makers will then be able to make more
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Flood Control and Floodplain Management -Larry Lang, Chief. Water Project Planning and Construction- Mike Serlet, Chief.
Instream Flows and Water Rights Investigations-Dan Merriman, Chief. Interstate Streams Investigations-Randy Seaholm, Chief.
Office of Conservation Planning-William Stanton, Chiefe Personnel and Budget -Susan Maul, Chief