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<br />. <br /> <br />Issue C.13: Access to Water <br />Background: Getting water supply vehicles to refill points is sometimes difficulL or <br />impossible. IL is panunount that water supply be planned and mutually agreed upon by <br />landowners and fire agencies to be accessible for UBe in fire emergencies. This includes <br />"dry hydranL" systems for inaccessible water sources. <br /> <br />Action Element: <br /> <br />1. Local fire departments identify and evaluate access and locations of currenL and <br />needed water refill sources. <br /> <br />2. Local fire agencies and landowners execute agreements in advance on how <br />water supply will be accessed. <br /> <br />3. Conslruct or install access drives and/or dry hydrants to water sources for frre <br />engines. <br /> <br />Agencies: Local fire departtnents */* landowners, Colorado State Forest Service. <br /> <br />Estimated Costs: Staff time for agreements; determine costs locally for dry hydrants <br />or access conslruction. <br /> <br />Funding Sources: <br /> <br />Tdenlificatillll- normal local program funding. <br /> <br />Aereements - normal local program funding. <br /> <br />Tnstallations -landowners, agencies and/or grants. <br /> <br />Schedule: Ongoing. <br /> <br />'II <br /> <br />Issue C-14: Prison Conservation Work Crews <br />Background: Crews are needed daily in conservation work such as tree planting, fuel <br />hazard reduction, erosion control, clean,up following fires and reinforcements to initial <br />attack wildfrre forces. <br /> <br />Colorado prisons and county jails are overcrowded. Some offenders are given shortened <br />or deferred sentences to relieve crowding. Many prisoners could serve sentences <br />prnductively in conservation and wildfire protection work crews. Other western states are <br />fmding value in using inmate crews for conserva tion and wildfire control work. <br /> <br />Colorado does not UBe this proven approach. The formation and use of prison <br />conservation camps offers Colorado an opportunity to simultaneously solve instiLutional, <br />social and conservation needs. Some inmate work activities occur in Colorado buL much <br />more is needed and can be done on a routine basis. <br /> <br />Action Element: Develop programs to form. coordinate and utilize prison work crews <br />using an interagency and work-camp approach. <br /> <br />Plans be mutually developed by the State Forester and Department of Corrections with <br />assistance from Department of Natural Resources. Emphasis be placed on state prisoners <br />but also use county prisoners or individuals owing public service where feasible. <br /> <br />Basic Concepts: Department of Corrections provides facilities and instiLutional care. <br />State Forester provides work training, tools and work projecL supervision. <br /> <br />Agencies: Colorado State Forest Service, Department of Corrections */* Department <br />of Natural Resources, county sheriffs. <br /> <br />Estimated Costs: Determined by number of crews and locations. <br /> <br />Funding Sources: State appropriations to Colorado State Forest Service and <br />DepartmenL of Corrections. <br /> <br />Schedule: Planning for pilot project and coordination 1996; funding and field UBe 1997 <br />and then ongoing. <br /> <br />33 <br />