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Grant Award Fall 2019
Applicant:Wright Water Engineers,Inc.c/o Natalie Collar
Project: Best Management Practice Literature Review and Initial Phase of
Performance Database Development
Amount:$14,462.00
Date:December 17,2019
This Grant Agreement,is made this 17th day of December,2019 by and between Wright
Water Engineers,Inc.2490 West 26th Avenue,Suite 100 A,Denver,CO 80211 and the Pitkin
County Healthy Rivers Program (“Pitkin County”)530 E.Main St.Ste 301 Aspen,CO 81611.
The purpose of the Grant Agreement is to provide a process for payment of public funds to
beused exclusively for costs incurred by in connection with the Best Management Practice
Literature Review and Initial Phase of Performance Database Development.
Through this Agreement,Wright Water Engineers,Inc.and Pitkin County have agreed that:
Wright Water Engineers,Inc.shall:
DEFINITION OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED:The first required step in the development of
a postfire BMP database is a literature review to understand what datasets have already
been collected and published on and what mitigation measures are currently being
employed in the industry.A database could include data on the landscape’s response to
treatments applied before the fire,such as forest thinning,or treatments applied after the
fire but before the precipitation event.
There is a similar question related to inclusion (or not)of BMP datasets with varying
objectives:
should mitigation tactics aimed only at reducing erosion potential be included?Or do we
rope in measures that aim to reduce burn intensity and/or severity?Only structural versus
non-structural practices?Or both?And finally, do we focus on measures that try to control
runoff quantities,runoff quality,or both?My literature review would be comprehensive and
would attempt to lay out the potential available options for the end product.This should be
driven by the foreseeable research questions we think the database would be used to
answer and by the area(s)where the greatest gap (and ostensibly need)exists in the
scientific literature and tools.A synthesis of the current body of knowledge on measures to
reduce the hydrological impacts of wildfire is currently missing in the literature.This would
be the deliverable produced in association with your grant monies if provided.
Our team would also use your grant funding to research the potential applications of the
Post-Fire Database and the types of queries users will submit.This could lay the
groundwork for our database’s architecture.What are the criteria that an eligible dataset
must meet?Example:what types of “experimental design”are acceptable,given that
wildfire is an uncontrolled event?As an initial step in this effort,I plan to review the
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approach used for the urban,stream restoration,and agricultural BMP databases and assess
whether sufficient literature exists to mine and populate our post-fire module.Ideally,this
work task would also include budget to interview experts in field of post-fire BMP
installation and monitoring (either individually or as a result of an expert panel meeting).I
would include this second component in my aforementioned deliverable if time permitted.
These tasks are a critical first step for the eventual development of a Post-Fire BMP
Database.Once completed,our team plans to develop pre-and post-fire BMP monitoring
and reporting protocols to standardize the design of wildfire BMP efficacy studies.
Populating a database with case study data identified during the literature review phase,
and data collected in the future in accordance with our monitoring and reporting protocols,
will be the next phase of work and will be funded by separate sources.
Work will begin and will not exceed one calendar year from the date funding is granted.A
written report will be provided to your Pitkin County Healthy Rivers Citizen Advisory Board
and Board of County Commissioners of Pitkin County detailing the results of this effort and
identifying future next steps.WWE and members of the CSM Hogue research group can also
provide results and conclusions to your Advisory Board as the culmination of the project if
requested.
Pitkin County shall:
Grant $14,462.00 to assist in the Best Management Practice Literature Review and Initial
Phase of Performance Database Development
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