FY07-09 proposal 200738500

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Section 1. Administrative

Proposal titleInvestigating Flood Control Benefits and Flooding Risks of Federally Controlled Lower Snake Dams
Proposal ID200738500
Organizationbluefish.org
Short descriptionThis proposal seeks to investigate the purported flood control benefits of the Lower Snake River dams and discuss and summarize the flooding risk of these impoundments.
Information transferFindings and discussions will all be detailed and summarized in a report and submitted to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, federal Action Agencies, States and Tribes.
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Contacts
ContactOrganizationEmail
Form submitter
Scott Levy bluefish.org redfish@bluefish.org
All assigned contacts

Section 2. Locations

Province / subbasin: Mainstem/Systemwide / Systemwide

LatitudeLongitudeWaterbodyDescription

Section 3. Focal species

primary: All Anadromous Salmonids

Section 4. Past accomplishments

YearAccomplishments

Section 5. Relationships to other projects

Funding sourceRelated IDRelated titleRelationship

Section 6. Biological objectives

Biological objectivesFull descriptionAssociated subbasin planStrategy
[BO Title left blank] [BO Description left blank] None [Strategy left blank]

Section 7. Work elements (coming back to this)

Work element nameWork element titleDescriptionStart dateEnd dateEst budget
Other [Work Element Title Not Entered] [Work Element Description Not Entered] 1/1/2007 1/1/2008 $10,000
Biological objectives
Metrics

Section 8. Budgets

Itemized estimated budget
ItemNoteFY07FY08FY09
Other [blank] $10,000 $0 $0
Totals $10,000 $0 $0
Total estimated FY 2007-2009 budgets
Total itemized budget: $10,000
Total work element budget: $10,000
Cost sharing
Funding source/orgItem or service providedFY 07 est value ($)FY 08 est value ($)FY 09 est value ($)Cash or in-kind?Status
Totals $0 $0 $0

Section 9. Project future

FY 2010 estimated budget: $0
FY 2011 estimated budget: $0
Comments: [Outyear comment field left blank]

Future O&M costs:

Termination date:
Comments:

Final deliverables:

Section 10. Narrative and other documents


Reviews and recommendations

FY07 budget FY08 budget FY09 budget Total budget Type Category Recommendation
NPCC FINAL FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Oct 23, 2006) [full Council recs]
$0 $0 $0 $0 Expense Basinwide Do Not Fund
NPCC DRAFT FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Sep 15, 2006) [full Council recs]
$0 $0 $0 $0 Basinwide

ISRP PRELIMINARY REVIEW (Jun 2, 2006)

Recommendation: Not fundable

NPCC comments: This is an inadequate proposal. It is quite generally written and is not persuasive as to why such flood control issues are not already known and routinely considered by the river operations system. No explanation or itemization of the $10k budget is provided. This proposal would prepare for the contingency of dam breaching by clarifying the differing perspectives on whether the Lower Snake River dams provide flood control benefits or risks. The background section contains much of the same information as in the other proposals from this sponsor, with a focus on the US Army Corps of Engineers report "Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility." The rationale for the proposed work is stated as finding viable alternatives to Corps’ plans. The proposal rests on the assumption that this is an issue best clarified in advance of a decision about dam breaching so that political acceptability of options can be discerned. It also rests, as does the entire set, on the need to assess the categories of impacts, in which the Corps identifies that adaptive migration might be a preferred alternative to dam breaching. The single objective of this proposal is to "clarify and investigate" competing claims about flood control risks and benefits of the Lower Snake River dams. Work elements are inadequately described and incompletely referenced. The risk/benefit analysis is not described. The proposal does not describe the type of information the river operating system already routinely tracks and assesses with regard to flood control.


ISRP FINAL REVIEW (Aug 31, 2006)

Recommendation: Not fundable

NPCC comments: This is an inadequate proposal. It is quite generally written and is not persuasive as to why such flood control issues are not already known and routinely considered by the river operations system. No explanation or itemization of the $10k budget is provided. This proposal would prepare for the contingency of dam breaching by clarifying the differing perspectives on whether the Lower Snake River dams provide flood control benefits or risks. The background section contains much of the same information as in the other proposals from this sponsor, with a focus on the US Army Corps of Engineers report "Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility." The rationale for the proposed work is stated as finding viable alternatives to Corps’ plans. The proposal rests on the assumption that this is an issue best clarified in advance of a decision about dam breaching so that political acceptability of options can be discerned. It also rests, as does the entire set, on the need to assess the categories of impacts, in which the Corps identifies that adaptive migration might be a preferred alternative to dam breaching. The single objective of this proposal is to "clarify and investigate" competing claims about flood control risks and benefits of the Lower Snake River dams. Work elements are inadequately described and incompletely referenced. The risk/benefit analysis is not described. The proposal does not describe the type of information the river operating system already routinely tracks and assesses with regard to flood control.