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3/24/2003
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Severance Tax Trust Fund Operational Account Recommendations
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<br />the federal government and other experts, The nature of the post-wildfire proj ects is to address <br />hydrology, hydraulics, debris flows, and hazard delineations within the numerous towns, cities and <br />counties throughout Colorado that were impacted by fires. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Recommendation: Staff gives a high recommendation for funding of this project since it is a high <br />priority project within the CWCB Flood Protection Section. Significant work is currently underway to <br />address some of the needs in Colorado for post-wildfire flood and debris flow hazard assessment. <br />However, due to the devastating nature ofthe 2002 fire season, there is a tremendous need for additional <br />work that is not currently being addressed, <br /> <br />4. Snotel- Automated Snow Gage Project <br /> <br />Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: NRCS, Water Planners <br />Amount of Request: $15,000 <br /> <br />Ranking: <br /> <br />Medium <br /> <br />Product Produced: The following locations were identified by the NRCS as the best sites for <br />additional forecasting and water management tools in river basins that improve stream-forecasting <br />reliability, The cost of an automated SNOTEL site is $15,000 and the CWCB staff would like to <br />provide $5,000 per SNOTEL site for the three sites mentioned below and allow the local water interests <br />to raise the remaining $10,000 so that all of the gages will be developed and implemented, This funding <br />will be cost shared with local governments and water managers to convert NRCS Snowcourse sites to <br />the Automated NRCS SNOTEL sites. Watersheds identified by the NRCS as needing SNOTEL sites <br />are: 1) the Greyback Snow Course in Rio Grande County (25 miles SW of Monte Vista), (2) Bear River <br />Snowcourse in Routt County (20 miles South of Steamboat Springs), and (3) Cochepeta Creek in <br />Saguache County (50 miles south of Gunnison), <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Water Planning Relationship: Often complex resource allocation decisions are based on the <br />available data in the basin and Snowpack is a large part of forecasting and planning for the water year. <br />These sites were identified by the NRCS as areas where forecasting is often difficult due to the lack of <br />data, NRCS Snowcourse data measurements are taken on the average four times a year and Automated <br />SNOTEL sites allow for daily collection data. <br /> <br />Recommendation: Staff gives a medium recommendation for funding of this project because of the <br />importance to the Flood Task Force, the Drought Task Force and water resource managers, <br /> <br />5. Literature Review of Cloud Seeding Theory and Observations in Colorado <br /> <br />Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: <br />Amount of Request: <br /> <br />Cotton Consulting <br />$15,000 <br /> <br />Ranking: <br /> <br />Low <br /> <br />Product Produced: This project is designed to create a summary report of literature and scientific <br />studies related to weather modification operations, C,S,u.'s Dr, Cotton will work with others to perform <br />a literature analysis of cloud seeding experiments, modeling and studies relevant to seeding wintertime <br />orographic clouds in Colorado, The report will include a summary of the underlying physical concepts, <br />field experiments and analyses of those experiments that were performed in the region or in Colorado. <br />CWCB staff has started to require GPS data of generator locations and will develop a GIS <br />comprehensive and accurate map of generator sites and target areas in Colorado for wintertime cloud <br />seeding operations. <br /> <br />. Water Planning Relationship: The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's <br />recommendations in a 2000 report was a stronger link between the scientific and operational community <br />and this project is designed to get those two groups together with a CWCB lead to summarize the state <br />of cloud seeding operations and scientific methods used today, <br /> <br />12 <br />
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