Cooperative Agreement NR208B05XXXXC003

The Bureau of Reclamation, through its WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507), awarded a $3,348,446 Project Grant (Award ID R24AP00229) to the Mancos Conservation District in Mancos, Colorado. The funding will support the Mancos Watershed Resiliency Project, which aims to improve watershed health and climate change resilience in the Mancos River watershed. The project activities include upgrading three agricultural diversion structures,...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to the Mesa Soil Conservation District in Grand Junction, Colorado. The funding will support the Grand Valley Water Committee, an existing watershed group, in the Colorado Headwaters-Plateau Watershed. Key activities include increasing community awareness and engagement, developing a watershed management matrix to prioritize local projects, and completing design work...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) supports the Headwaters of the Colorado (HOC) Initiative, a multi-stakeholder collaboration focused on building resilient and functioning forested headwaters within the Little Snake and Yampa watersheds in Wyoming and Colorado. The funding will enable the HOC partnership, which includes federal and state land management agencies, private landowners, and local community...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $125,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District (Ugrwcd) for the "Upper Gunnison Basin Wet Meadows Capacity Building Project" under the BLM's Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244). This 5-year project, running from October 2024 to September 2029, aims to build the capacity of Ugrwcd to restore and conserve wet meadow habitats in the Upper Gunnison Basin...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $2,360,706 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to the Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center, Inc. (doing business as the Western Slope Conservation Center) on April 11, 2024. The project will modernize the Farmers Ditch diversion and headgate structures in west-central Colorado to improve upstream fish passage, increase diversion efficiency, and enhance safety for boaters. Key project...

The Municipal Subdistrict, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District was awarded a $15,327,855 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service to design and construct the Colorado River Headwaters Connectivity Project in Grand County, Colorado. The project aims to protect, develop, and utilize land and water resources in the watershed through January 31, 2025. Funding was provided under the Watershed Protection and Flood...

The Lefthand Watershed Oversight Group received a $299,196 Cooperative Watershed Management Program grant from the Bureau of Reclamation to expand existing watershed management planning within the St. Vrain watershed in Colorado. The group will develop a wildfire risk assessment, conduct a watershed-scale analysis, and identify, prioritize, and develop two to three key river restoration projects that complement ongoing forest mitigation efforts. The project aims to address the impacts of climate...

The Bureau of Reclamation, under its Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557), awarded a $254,615 Cooperative Agreement to the West Dakota Water Development District in partnership with the City of Rapid City, South Dakota. The project will develop a RiverWare model to evaluate operational strategies for the Pactola and Deerfield Reservoirs under varying hydrologic conditions. The model will build on preliminary work estimating an additional 3,000 acre-feet per year could be supplied from...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078) provides $1,340,879.80 to Mountain Hydrology LLC to conduct a 3-year project focused on improving snow monitoring and water supply forecasting in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Conducting annual spring airborne LiDAR snow surveys over 10 watersheds in the Wind River Range to...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554), will fund capacity-building and implementation activities to increase the health and resilience of the Upper Yellowstone and Shields River watersheds in Montana. The $299,533 award to Montana Freshwater Partners, Inc. will support: 1) formalizing the Park County Water Initiative to coordinate stakeholder collaboration; 2) developing a website to house prioritized...