FY07-09 proposal 200737700

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Section 1. Administrative

Proposal titleCooler Temperatures for Federally Controlled Reservoirs
Proposal ID200737700
Organizationbluefish.org
Short descriptionAn investigation is proposed to consider the biological and economic attributes of a temperature-control structure which could be installed at Idaho Power’s Brownlee Dam
Information transferResults will be detailed and summarized into a report and submitted to Idaho Power, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, federal Action Agencies, States and Tribes.
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Contacts
ContactOrganizationEmail
Form submitter
Scott Levy bluefish.org [email protected]
All assigned contacts

Section 2. Locations

Province / subbasin: Mainstem/Systemwide / Systemwide

LatitudeLongitudeWaterbodyDescription

Section 3. Focal species

primary: All Anadromous Fish
secondary: All Resident Fish

Section 4. Past accomplishments

YearAccomplishments

Section 5. Relationships to other projects

Funding sourceRelated IDRelated titleRelationship

Section 6. Biological objectives

Biological objectivesFull descriptionAssociated subbasin planStrategy
[BO Title left blank] [BO Description left blank] None [Strategy left blank]

Section 7. Work elements (coming back to this)

Work element nameWork element titleDescriptionStart dateEnd dateEst budget
Other [Work Element Title Not Entered] [Work Element Description Not Entered] 1/1/2007 1/1/2008 $10,000
Biological objectives
Metrics

Section 8. Budgets

Itemized estimated budget
ItemNoteFY07FY08FY09
Other [blank] $10,000 $0 $0
Totals $10,000 $0 $0
Total estimated FY 2007-2009 budgets
Total itemized budget: $10,000
Total work element budget: $10,000
Cost sharing
Funding source/orgItem or service providedFY 07 est value ($)FY 08 est value ($)FY 09 est value ($)Cash or in-kind?Status
Totals $0 $0 $0

Section 9. Project future

FY 2010 estimated budget: $0
FY 2011 estimated budget: $0
Comments: [Outyear comment field left blank]

Future O&M costs:

Termination date:
Comments:

Final deliverables:

Section 10. Narrative and other documents


Reviews and recommendations

FY07 budget FY08 budget FY09 budget Total budget Type Category Recommendation
NPCC FINAL FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Oct 23, 2006) [full Council recs]
$0 $0 $0 $0 Expense Basinwide Do Not Fund
NPCC DRAFT FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Sep 15, 2006) [full Council recs]
$0 $0 $0 $0 Basinwide

ISRP PRELIMINARY REVIEW (Jun 2, 2006)

Recommendation: Not fundable

NPCC comments: This is an inadequate proposal. It addresses a reasonable question, but without an adequate description of methods. It is unclear from the proposal whether information from other dams on temperature control intake structures already exists to answer this question (it does). No explanation or itemization of the $10k budget is provided. The proposal is to consider the costs and potential biological benefit of installing a temperature control intake structure at Brownlee Dam. It then cites the Lower Snake and Salmon Subbasin Plans to indicate that water temperature is a limiting factor. It also cites a number of strategies for terrestrial species, which are of dubious relevance to the proposed work. The proposal has a single objective to investigate the biological and economic attributes of a temperature control structure at Brownlee Dam. The objective is reasonably explained, but without documentation of statements about the effect of irrigation withdrawals on temperatures in downstream reservoirs. Work elements describe a number of steps to acquire data on temperature and temperature control structures at other dams. The analysis tasks are described in more detail than in any other of this group of proposals, but details of analytical methods are missing.


ISRP FINAL REVIEW (Aug 31, 2006)

Recommendation: Not fundable

NPCC comments: This is an inadequate proposal. It addresses a reasonable question, but without an adequate description of methods. It is unclear from the proposal whether information from other dams on temperature control intake structures already exists to answer this question (it does). No explanation or itemization of the $10k budget is provided. The proposal is to consider the costs and potential biological benefit of installing a temperature control intake structure at Brownlee Dam. It then cites the Lower Snake and Salmon Subbasin Plans to indicate that water temperature is a limiting factor. It also cites a number of strategies for terrestrial species, which are of dubious relevance to the proposed work. The proposal has a single objective to investigate the biological and economic attributes of a temperature control structure at Brownlee Dam. The objective is reasonably explained, but without documentation of statements about the effect of irrigation withdrawals on temperatures in downstream reservoirs. Work elements describe a number of steps to acquire data on temperature and temperature control structures at other dams. The analysis tasks are described in more detail than in any other of this group of proposals, but details of analytical methods are missing.