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Challenge Grant Program Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West

Challenge Grant Program Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West. Eligible applicants are irrigation and/or water districts in the western U.S.

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Challenge Grant Program Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West

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  1. Challenge Grant ProgramWater 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West • Eligible applicants are irrigation and/or water districts in the western U.S. • The 2005 Challenge Grant Program funding is for $20 million a year over 5 years, with $4 million per year earmarked for desalination related funding • EPWU eligibility as applicant confirmed verbally last March by Bert Cortez

  2. Objectives of the FY 2004 Challenge Grant Program(May Change for 2005 RFP) • Invite Irrigation and Water Districts to cost share with BuRec on projects that Make more efficiency use of existing supplies through – • Water Conservation • Efficiency • Water Markets • Encourages Multiple Agency Cooperation

  3. 2004 RFP Eligible Project Categories(May change for 2005 RFP) • Water Banks and Water Markets • New Technologies for Improved Water Management * • Canal Lining • Measuring Devices * * Note: Currently proposed concepts directly related to these categories; indirectly related to other two.

  4. Award Information • Total Project Funding Available Under this RFP is $16 million per year for 5 Years • Schedule: 2005 Program Will Open Late November/Early December (Part of Federal Budget Resolution) • $300,000 Maximum Award (Estimated) - 50% Matching Funds Required • Awards Due April of 2005 (Estimated)

  5. Purpose & Need • City of Las Cruces & Town of Hatch • Additional WQ River Data Needed for SWP Plant Design • EBID • Additional TDS Sensors w/Telemetry at 4 Diversion Dams • Flow Measuring Stations at Multiple Canal Turnout and Control Structure Locations • EPWU • Archive of Daily TDS Data at Major Drains for Future Drain Mitigation Assessments (Desalination?) • Mass Balance of Salts/Dissolved Solids by Source & Impacts on River Water Quality • Additional Real-time TDS Monitoring Sites To Improve Water Treatment Plant Operation • EP#1 – Possibly Similar to EBID, Portion of EPWU

  6. Mesilla Dam Proposed EPWU Flow/TDS Measurement Sites Site 1: Del Rio Drain Site 2: La Mesa Drain Anthony Note: Sites #1 through #4 Proposed at River Confluence

  7. East River - Anthony Brdg. Anthony Anthony Proposed EPWU Flow/TDS Measurement Sites Site 3: East Drain Nemexas West Canutillo Current EWPU/EBID Stateline TDS Probes Site 4: Montoya Drain Corchesne Brdge Note: Sites #1 through #4 Proposed at River Confluence

  8. Possible Linked Structure for Joint Proposal(s) Note: This Submittal Structure Provides BuRec with Multiple Alternatives to Chose From Possible Independent Joint Proposals • EPWU • PdNWC • EP#1 (?) • Request $175,000 +/- • (EBID, Coachella - smaller scope than Master) Master Proposal to BuRec • EBID • Coachella VWD • EPWU • PdNWC • EP#1 (?) • Request $300,000 +/- (Max. Based on 2004 RFP) Linked To SmallerRequests • EPWU • PdNWC • Request $125,000 +/- • (EBID, Coachella - smaller scope than Master) (Same Partners, Smaller Funding Requests)

  9. PdNWC Coordinated Database / GIS Project • Funding Component Can be Included in Grant Proposal as Data Sharing Component • Improves Sharing of Archival Data • Improves Accessibility to Real-time Data • Possibly Funding for Phase III Work • GW/Source Protection Layers • Land Use Layers • State Water Quality Standards/BMPs • Other Watershed Modeling Data

  10. PdNWC Coordinated Database / GIS Project • Numerous Benefits of Data Sharing Can be Cited • Facilitates Implementation of Water Banking • Groundwater Data – Role of GW to Rio Grande Water Balance; Conjunctive Water Management Role • Facilitates Research Programs at All Levels

  11. Current Status of Proposal • EPWU Staff Met with Gary Esslinger 9/20/04 • Separate, Partnered Proposals – EBID,EPWU, Coachella Valley Irrigation District, EP#1(?) • EBID Component – TDS w/ Telemetry Sensors at 4 Diversion Dams & ~50 Flow Sites on Canals/Turnouts • EPWU Component - New Flow/TDS Sensor Installation at 4 Major Drains Near Confluence with Rio Grande ($50,000 +/- ) • Include Funding for Data QA/QC for EBID ($25,000 +/-) • Include Funding for PdnWC Coordinated Database Project ($75,000 +/-) • EPWU Meeting with EP#1 Pending • First Draft Target Date is October 30, 2004 (Estimated)

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