Thank you for participating in this Water With Your Lunch. A recording of the webinar is available here. Please see below for resource links and PowerPoint slides.
During this installment of the Colorado River District’s popular Water With Your Lunch series, West Slope water users will learn about ways to successfully navigate the federal funding opportunities provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. A cross-discipline team of River District staff members will present information about specific funding categories for water projects, how to put together a successful federal grant application, and how to leverage other grant opportunities to maximize funding and project impacts.
Along with a look at the various federal funding pools for water projects, River District staff will present details on the recently established Community Funding Partnership “Accelerator Grant.” This special funding opportunity is designed to support the grant-writing, feasibility, design, preliminary environmental review, benefit analysis, and engineering needed to complete federal funding applications. The deadline for this grant cycle is August 1.
POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS
Colorado River District Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Opportunities
Nate Pearson, DNR – Federal Funding Stakeholder Resources
RESOURCE LINKS
BIL Overview
BIL Fast Facts
Funding Advice
CFP – Accelerator Grants
- Colorado River District – Accelerator Grants
- Contact: Amy Moyer; amoyer@crwcd.org
CFP Program
- Colorado River District – Community Funding Partnership
- Contact: Amy Moyer; amoyer@crwcd.org
USBR Water Conservation Field Services Program
- USBR Water Conservation Field Services Program
- Contact: Gary McRae, gmcrae@usbr.gov
USBR WaterSMART
- USBR WaterSMART
- WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grant Contact: Josh German, jgerman@usbr.gov
- WaterSMART Environmental Water Resources Projects Contact: Robin Graber, 303-445-2764, rgraber@usbr.gov
- Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects Contact: Carrie Diroll at 303-445-2835 or cdiroll@usbr.gov
USBR Aging infrastructure
- Major Rehabilitation and Replacement Database
- Contact: Western Colorado Area Office – Grand Junction, Reece Carpenter, rkcarpenter@usbr.gov
NRCS PL566
- Watershed and Flood Prevention Program
- Contact: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/co/contact/state/
SRF
- CDPHE Water Quality Grants & Loans Unit
- Contacts:
- NW Region Project Manager: Sean Oliver, oliver@state.co.us (Grand, Summit, Eagle, Routt, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa, & Delta)
- Central Region Project Manager: Jeff Zajdel, zajdel@state.co.us
Aquatic Connectivity
- US Forest Service Aquatic Organism Passage
- America the Beautiful Challenge
- Contact: Nathaniel Gillespie, gillespie@usda.gov
- US Fish and Wildlife Services Fish Passage
- Contact: Michael Bailey, michael_bailey@fws.gov
- US Army Corps of Engineers Instream Barrier Removal
- Contact: Mindy Simmons, M.Simmons@usace.army.mil
- NOAA Fisheries Fish Passage
- Contact: Melanie Gange, gange@noaa.gov
- US Department of Energy:
- Contact: Tim Welch, welch@ee.doe.gov
PANELISTS FOR HOW TO MAKE IT RAIN:
Amy Moyer – Director of Strategic Partnerships, Colorado River District
Raquel Flinker – Senior Water Resources Specialist, Colorado River District
Zane Kessler – Director of Government Relations, Colorado River District
Nate Pearson – Recovery Officer, CO Department of Natural Resources
