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GRANT YEARS 1999-2005

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Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
1999	Truckee River Day and Associated Projects	Truckee River Habitat Restoration Group	9-044-256-0	$33,010	7/15/99-2/20/02
	Project Description: (10/2007 Update) This grant established Truckee River Day, and ongoing annual event.
	Project Outcome: Truckee River Day generates awareness of the importance of the Truckee River watershed and organizes volunteer events for meadow restoration and wetland protection. Truckee River Day has become a well attended annual volunteer and community event due to its success. For more information, please visit www.truckeeriverday.org/.

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
1999	Rangeland BMPs in the Upper West Walker River Watershed	Regents of the University of California	9-046-256-0	96,890	8/1/99-3/31/03
	Description: The purpose of this contract is to assist in placement of and monitoring of rangeland Best Management Practices (BMPs) for control of nonpoint source pollution (or polluted runoff) associated with grazing activities on private lands within the Junction Allotment in the upper West Walker River Watershed. For further information, please contact Dr. Robert Curry at 831/582-4098.
	Project Outcome: (2/2007 Update): In the Upper West Walker River Watershed, riparian cover at most (grazing measures) managed river and stream bank sites increased over three years, compared to unmanaged control sites. Riparian cover, or streamside vegetation, shades the river or stream; lowers water temperature, increasing critical dissolved oxygen; reduces bank soil erosion; and improves wildlife habitat. However, stream aquatic insects and other invertebrates did not show recovery over the three years of monitoring following the use of grazing management measures in this watershed. This project has also established an interactive watershed education program for local elementary through high school students. For more information, see a more indepth project summary report web posted at: http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/nps/docs/success/r6_streamhabitats.pdf . Much more additional information, contained in the full research report, is available at http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/lahontan/docs/swamp/herbst_kane_wwgs_2004.pdf

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
1999	Revegetation and Monitoring in the Upper Truckee Watershed	U.C. Davis Office of Research	9-043-256-0	$94,380	7/15/99-1/31/03
	Project Description: This project addresses methods of establishing and growing permanent vegetative cover on eroding highway slopes in the Upper Truckee Watershed for the purpose of reducing nonpoint source (or polluted runoff) sediment (soil, sand, etc.) losses. For further information, please contact Dr. Vic Claassen at 530/752-6514.
	Project Outcome: (coming soon)

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
1999	Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Watershed Management	Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA)	9-131-256-0	$240,000	4/15/00-4/15/03
	Project Description: This project focused on placement of a comprehensive Best Management Practices (BMP) retrofit program to achieve specific water quality goals by reducing the nonpoint source pollution (or polluted runoff) from private properties. For further information, please contact Matthew Graham at 775/588-4547x217.
	Project Outcome: (10/2005 Update) Specific grant successes have included creating an educational Best Management Practices (BMPs) campaign to explain the link between BMP’s and environmental water quality to the public, including 98 community presentations reaching over 800 people, developing neighborhood BMP in the ground placement strategies, conducting 11 workshops for private property owners reaching over 500 people, evaluating the BMP needs for over 500 properties, facilitating BMP installation for over 100 properties, creating a publicly accessible & GIS mapping linked on-line database to track BMP status of all Tahoe Basin properties, writing 6 residential & 22 commercial BMP permits, & inspecting 140 properties after BMP installation. For viewing photos and for more information, please visit this web site: http://www.tahoebmp.org.

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
1999	Restoration of Riparian habitat at Crowley Lake	U.C. Santa Barbara	9-175-256-0	$244,941	5/1/00-3/28/03
	Project Description: (10/2007 Update) This grant project restored native riparian vegetation along the upper Owens River and the lower Crowley Lake Reservoir.
	Project Outcome: The project implemented best management practices to restore a length of the Owens River above and including some of Crowley Lake Reservoir and reduce or prevent pollution from agriculture, recreation, and habitat alteration.

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Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
2000	Trout Creek Restoration Project	Town of Truckee	0-227-256-0	$125,500	5/1/01-6/1/04
	Project Description: This project will address floodplain, wetlands habitat and streambed restoration, stream channel hydraulic capacity improvements to eliminate flooding, debris and pollution removal from the Trout Creek stream channel, and community outreach and watershed awareness education. For further information, please contact Dan Wilkins at 530/582-7700.
	Project Outcome: (coming soon)

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
2001	Truckee River Day/Citizen's Monitoring	Truckee River Habitat Restoration Group	1-256-256-0	$129,815	7/1/02-6/30/05
	Project Description: This project will help to produce Truckee River Day for three consecutive years. The annual event is an education and outreach program that also implements various restoration projects. This project will also support a bioassessment component that will measure the overall health of the Truckee River. For further information, please contact Jill S. Wilson at 530/524-5449.
	Project Outcome: (coming soon)

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
2001	Backyard Conservation and BMPs Education and Implementation	Tahoe Resource Conservation District (RCD)	1-109-256-0	$132,978	2/1/02-6/30/05
	Project Description: This project aims to reduce non-point source pollution from private parcels. The project goal is placement of a program that facilitates and promotes the installation of Best Management Practices (BMP’s) and provides backyard conservation on privately owned parcels on the California side of the Tahoe Basin. The goal is to ultimately reduce sediment and nutrient loading (or runoff into the public waters) and to improve the water quality and clarity of Lake Tahoe. For further information, please contact Jennifer Heath at 530/573-2756.
	Project Outcome: (coming soon)

( updated 11/1/07 )