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GRANT YEARS 1999-2005

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( Updated 12/12/06 )
Grant Year
Project Title
Contracting Agency
Contract Number
Amount Awarded
Term
DWQ
2000
Rangeland Water Quality Management
Regents of U.C. Davis
0-118-250-0
$236,910
1/1/01-1/31/04
Project Description:  This project has educated rangeland owners, ranch operators and other interested persons about protecting rangeland water quality through improved grazing practices.  For further information, please contact Mel George at 530/752-1720
Project Outcome:  (9/2005 Update)  There were 777 participants in the short course for Best Management Practices (BMPs) for range management plans, of which over half installed one or more BMPs on their rangelands (5,000 acre average size); including erosion prevention, & reduced nutrient runoff.  Continued high demand for course materials, and latest range management research results to be published in September 2005 in world’s leading range management technical journal ‘Rangeland Ecology & Management’.

Grant Year
Project Title
Contracting Agency
Contract Number
Amount Awarded
Term
DWQ
2001
Feed Nutrient Management on Dairy Farms
Regents of the University of California, Davis
2-037-250-0
$127,094
8/15/02-9/15/04
Project Description: The objective of this project is to develop methodology to minimize nutrient, particularly nitrogen, sequestration at dairy operations by demonstrating the effectiveness of feed inventory management.  This would reduce the impact of dairy facilities to surface and ground water resources and to air.  For further information, please contact Deanne Meyer at 530/752-9391.
Project Outcome:   (coming soon)

Grant Year
Project Title
Contracting Agency
Contract Number
Amount Awarded
Term
DWQ
2001
Snapshot Day
Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation
2-078-250-0
$150,693
8/1/02-1/31/04
Project Description:  This project produced “Snapshot Day,” a one day, multiple location water quality monitoring event.   For further information, please contact Erick Burres at 213/576-6788.
Project Outcome:  (9/2005 Update)  For ‘Snapshot Day’ 2003, 155 people monitored 155 sites within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.  In field measurements in these diverse urban drainages, brackish sloughs, and major river systems included dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity, temperature, and turbidity (transparency).  Water samples were also collected for lab analysis of nitrate, orthophosphate, and bacteria at most of these 155 sites.  The majority of sites met the objectives for cold water fish habitat, although dissolved oxygen was too low in about 10% of the sites, Watsonville Slough and scattered streams.  Coliform bacteria exceeded water quality objectives at 27% of sites; and orthophosphate at 23% of sites.  Overall, there were 14 ‘Areas of Concern’ (based on water quality limitations) identified in 2003; compared to 11 in 2002.

( updated 12/12/06 )