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<br />any user-specified accumulation period ranging from the past week to the past year. This will be <br />particularly useful for drought monitoring, water supply assessments and evaluating flood potential. <br /> <br />Water Planning Relationship: Access to accurate, detailed and timely precipitation data is critical . <br />for drought monitoring, water supply planning and management, construction project planning and <br />design, flood warning and documentation, and water education. <br /> <br />Recommendation: Staff gives a medium recommendation for funding of this project because it is the <br />development of an additional source of data that can be useful in storm event flood documentation of <br />rainfall amounts and for forecasting streamflow conditions in a basin. <br /> <br />6. NRCS SNOTEL Site Installations <br /> <br />Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: USDA, Various <br />Amount of Request: $15,000 <br /> <br />Ranking: <br /> <br />High <br /> <br />Product Produced: Each proposed location would increase the data coverage for a particular basin to <br />improve water supply forecasting during the runoff season. These new sites would either automate an <br />existing manually measured snow course or provide new data in previously unmeasured basins. Where <br />existing snow courses are automated, these new SNOTEL sites will provide daily snowpack readings, <br />whereas the previous manually measured snow course was only read four times per winter. When new <br />sites are installed in previously unmeasured locations, this new data can be extremely valuable in <br />helping to calibrate basin forecasts. New data measurement sites can help explain previously unknown <br />hydrologic variability within the basin. <br /> <br />The proposed installations are as follows: <br /> <br />. Install two new SNOTEL sites in the upper Arkansas Basin. Location: 10 - 50 miles north of <br />Salida. <br />. Install a new SNOTEL site along either the St. Vrain, Big Thompson, or Cache la Poudre <br />Rivers. Location: 30 - 50 miles west of Loveland. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Water Planning Relationship: Floodplain protection is an integral part of water planning and <br />management. This program would enable more communities to incorporate this as part of their water <br />plans. <br /> <br />Recommendation: Staff gives a high recommendation for funding of this project because of the <br />importance to water supply protection, flood protection and water resource managers. <br /> <br />7. Hydro-Climate Indicators On Colorado River Basin Precipitation <br /> <br />Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: CWCB, Local Water Planners <br />Amount of Request: $99,000 <br /> <br />Ranking: <br /> <br />High <br /> <br />Product Produced: Funding will produce a database continued from Phase I of this model as detailed <br />below: <br /> <br />Colorado experiences alternating wet, dry and normal periods of precipitation. In the past five years <br />several Colorado researches have noted that basin average precipitation seems to vary with different <br />hydro-climate indices. Klaus Wolter (NOAA - Climate Diagnostics Center) proposed seven climate <br />zones and related precipitation in these basins to the Multi-Variate ENSO Index (ME!) Index. HDR <br /> <br />18 <br />