BOARD01107

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1998
• Description: ISF Section - Update on the "Adopt an Instream" Flow Monitoring Partnership with Trout Unlimited
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
721 Centennial Building
1 31 3 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

STATE OF COLOMDO

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Roy Romer
Governor

MEMORANDUM

/oilmes S. Lochhead
Executive Director, DNR
DilriesC.lile. P.E.
Director, (WeB

TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

FROM: Dan Merriman

DATE: January 20, 1998

SUBJECT: Agenda Item 21c, January 28-29, 1998 Board Meeting
Update on the "Adopt an Instream Flow" Monitoring Partnership with Trout Unlimited

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In April of 1997, Colorado Trout Unlimited (TV), The Colorado Water Conservation Board (Board) and
The Division of Wildlife (DOW) entered into an agreement to form an instream flow monitoring
partnership, The partnership was designed to aid the Board in the enforcement and protection of its water
rights by providing additional manpower to monitor stream flows, and thus help preserve the water
dependent natural environment in many streams throughout the state,

The first step in the development of the partnership was the implementation of a pilot project to focus
on five different stream segments in different parts of the state. At its November 26, 1996 meeting, the
Board discussed the proposed pilot project and TV's efforts to obtain a capacity building grant from Great
Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) to help initiate the partnership, The Board was unanimously in favor of such
a partnership and fully endorsed TV's efforts to obtain the funding from GOCO that would help launch
the project. Furthermore, the Board committed the necessary staff time required to implement the pilot
project.

TU has since received a Capacity Building Grant from Great Outdoors Colorado for $14,125, In
addition, TU received a grant from the Silver Trout Foundation for an additional $3,000 and committed
$1,545 of its own money toward the project. The CWCB and DOW committed $24,960 as an in-kind
match which involves staff time from the two agencies for technical assistance in the installation and
rating of the gages, production of training materials, and implementation of training sessions to teach
volunteers how to monitor the selected instream flow segments,

At this time, the partnership has purchased a streamflow meter and other materials necessary for the
. installation and rating of the five staff gages, CWCB staffhas installed all five gages and is considering