FY 2002 Columbia Plateau proposal 25075

Section 1. General administrative information
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Section 4. Budgets for planning/design phase
Section 5. Budgets for construction/implementation phase
Section 6. Budgets for operations/maintenance phase
Section 7. Budgets for monitoring/evaluation phase
Section 8. Budget summary

Reviews and Recommendations

Additional documents

Title	Type
25075 Narrative	Narrative
25075 Sponsor Response to the ISRP	Response
Letter from R. Graves (Wasco SWCD) to K. Phillips (NPCC) RE: Sponsor response to ISRP comments on project proposal 25075	Correspondence

Section 1. Administrative

Proposal title	Momitoring and Evaluation of Buck Hollow Hydrology
Proposal ID	25075
Organization	Wasco County Soil and Water Conservation District (Wasco SWCD)
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Name	Ron Graves
Mailing address	2325 River Road, Suite 3 The Dalles OR 97058
Phone / email	5412966178 / ron-graves@or.nacdnet.org
Manager authorizing this project	Wasco Soil and Water Conservation Distice Board
Review cycle	Columbia Plateau
Province / Subbasin	Columbia Plateau / Deschutes
Short description	A project to monitor and evaluate the hydrologic function of Buck Hollow Creek after the application of conservation management systems designed to reduce peak flows and increase low summer flows.
Target species	Deschutes river steelhead & chinook, resident redband and coastal cutthroat trout, bull trout, winter steelhead mid-Columbia coho & chinook, wildlife.

Project location

Latitude	Longitude	Description
		Between the following four points:
		Between the following four points:
		Between the following four points:
		Between the following four points:
45.264	-121.0243	Buck Hollow Creek

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)

Sponsor-reported:

RPA

Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:

Reviewing agency	Action #	BiOp Agency	Description
NMFS	Action 183	NMFS	Initiate at least three tier 3 studies (each necessarily comprising several sites) within each ESU (a single action may affect more than one ESU). In addition, at least two studies focusing on each major management action must take place within the Columbia River basin. The Action Agencies shall work with NMFS and the Technical Recovery Teams to identify key studies in the 1-year plan. Those studies will be implemented no later than 2003.

Section 2. Past accomplishments

Year	Accomplishment
	Projects initiated in 1990 and terminatingin 2003 to restore Buck Hollow Watershed.

Section 3. Relationships to other projects

Project ID	Title	Description
90005	Buck Hollow Watershed Enhancement	Watershed Enhancement previously completed
91006	Buck Hollow Watershed Enhancement	Watershed Enhancement previously completed
92030	Buck Hollow Watershed Enhancement	Watershed Enhancement previously completed
93015	Buck Hollow Watershed Enhancement	Watershed Enhancement previously completed
95030	Buck Hollow Watershed Enhancement	Watershed Enhancement previously completed
98171	Buck Hollow Watershed Enhancement	Watershed Enhancement previously completed
21016	Accthe application of Integrated Fruit Management to Reduce the Risk of Pollution in Fifteenmile Sub-basin Orchards	Use of weather stations
25015	Emergency Flow augmentation for Buck Hollow	Includes more labor intensive manual measurement of flows

Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost
1. Perform project planning, coordination and management activities.	Task a. Examine and select site for gauging station and obtain landowner permission	1	$3,711
	a.1 Coordinate requirements with supporting agencies. .		$0
	a.2 Examine potential for integration of weather station & gauging station with Environmental Data Network		$0
	Task b. Solicit bids for equipment & instalation		$0
	Task c. Budget tracking and progress reporting		$0

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
Objective 1, Task	2003	2004	$0

Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase

Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost	Subcontractor
2. Install equipment by July 2002	Task a. Supervise and assist contractor as necessary.	1	$74,222	Yes

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
	2003	2004	$0

Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase

Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost	Subcontractor
3.. Operate and maintain installed system	Task a. Perform periodic maintenance	3	$7,422

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
Objective 3, Task a	2003	2004	$11,547
	0		$0

Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase

FY 2003	FY 2004
$5,704	$5,843

Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost
4. Continuously collect, display, evaluate and disseminate data.	a Collect data at 10 preexisting monitoring sites.	3	$7,422
	b Retrieve data from installed system		$0
	c. Evaluate data, analyze and compare to modeling predictions.		$0
	d. Prepare annual monitoring reports		$0

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
Objecive 4, Task a	2003	2004	$11,547

Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

FY 2003	FY 2004
$5,704	$5,843

Section 8. Estimated budget summary

Itemized budget

Item	Note	FY 2002 cost
Personnel	FTE: 0.18	$6,264
Fringe	Insurance, payroll, retirement, others	$1,879
Supplies	general office, postange	$100
Travel	meetings, workshops, training	$300
Indirect	administrative overhead @ 10%	$8,434
Capital	Recording stream gague, Weather station system	$74,216
NEPA	no land disturbance	$0
Subcontractor	Wy'East Outreach program	$1,584
		$92,777

Total estimated budget

Total FY 2002 cost	$92,777
Amount anticipated from previously committed BPA funds	$0
Total FY 2002 budget request	$92,777
FY 2002 forecast from 2001	$0
% change from forecast	0.0%

Cost sharing

Organization	Item or service provided	Amount	Cash or in-kind

Reviews and recommendations

This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.

REVIEW:
ISRP Preliminary Review (ISRP 2001-6)

Recommendation:
Fundable - no response required

Date:
Jun 15, 2001

Comment:

Fundable. This proposal is to monitor the hydrologic function of Buck Hollow Creek and the conservation results of full watershed restoration. The project will install instrumentation to monitor the watershed response to environmental variables. The project offers an excellent opportunity for monitoring of the effects of full watershed restoration on stream hydrology (see the introduction to this proposal) and to understand its effect on anadromous fish. The response should further describe the project's selection of monitoring approach (tier), for establishing the project's biologically measurable results, and the justification of this selection (see ISRP's general comments on monitoring).

The proposal is of modest financial size and should help examine the relationship between environmental variables, habitat restoration activities, and the assumption that such activities can reshape the hydrograph to a more natural shape and phenology.

The project is to install a gauging station and environmental data monitoring system in Buck Hollow. It is unclear if project 25015 also included a gauging station in Buck Hollow.

Detailed procedures for annual spawning surveys or references to methods should be given.

REVIEW:
CBFWA Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
Recommended Action

Date:
Aug 3, 2001

Comment:

REVIEW:
ISRP Final Review (ISRP 2001-8)

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Aug 10, 2001

Comment:

Fundable. This proposal is to monitor the hydrologic function of Buck Hollow Creek and the conservation results of full watershed restoration. The project will install instrumentation to monitor the watershed response to environmental variables. The project offers an excellent opportunity for monitoring of the effects of full watershed restoration on stream hydrology (see the introduction to this proposal) and to understand its effect on anadromous fish. A response was not necessary (although our preliminary comment suggested it), but the ISRP did appreciate the clarification that Wasco SWCD provided on some minor points concerning the level of monitoring required. They propose appropriate Tier I level monitoring based on a gauging station near the mouth of Buck Hollow watershed.

REVIEW:
NMFS Review

Recommendation:

Date:
Oct 1, 2001

Comment:

Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESU
Project will monitor and evaluate the hydrologic function of Buck Hollow Creek after the application of conservation management systems designed to reduce peak flows and increase low summer flows.

Comments
Project offers excellent opportunity for monitoring the effects of full watershed restoration on stream hydrology.

Already ESA Req? no

Biop? yes

REVIEW:
BPA Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
Rank A

Date:
Oct 16, 2001

Comment:

This proposal is very cost-effective and important M&E for the Buck Hollow habitat enhancement program and could be essential in future water monitoring for leased or acquired water. Buck Hollow contributes 10 to 15 percent of the wild steelhead in the Deschutes River and 25 to 30 percent of the warm water adapted wild steelhead in the river.

REVIEW:
NWPPC Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
Do Not Fund

Date:
Jan 3, 2002

Comment:

REVIEW:
BPA Funding Decision

Recommendation:
Do Not Fund

Date:
Mar 6, 2002

Comment:

Consistent with the Council recommendation, BPA does not intent to fund in FY02.