Project Tasks
Task 1: Project Administration
Objective: TWRI will effectively coordinate and monitor all technical and financial activities performed under this contract, prepare progress reports and a final report, and maintain project files and data. TWRI will be responsible for hiring and supervision of all project personnel. And TWRI will ensure regular meetings and communication occur among project participants and granting agency.
Task 2: Steering Committee and Work Group Facilitation
Objective: The ACWC will provide a structure/encouragement for continued stakeholder participation and involvement; arrange and facilitate Arroyo Colorado Watershed Steering Committee meetings; ensure activities of work groups are consistent with goals and objectives of the Watershed Steering Committee and will advance the goal of implementing individual components of the Watershed Protection Plan. The ACWC will also document all Steering Committee and work group activities.
Task 3: Facilitate Watershed Protection Plan Implementation
Objective: The ACWC will facilitate implementation of the Watershed Protection Plan through outreach and education activities in the Arroyo Colorado watershed, and other activities designed to promote private and public support for the implementation of the WPP. The ACWC will identify local, regional and national groups and agencies planning, or engaging in activities with goals similar to those of the Arroyo Colorado Partnership and, to the highest extent practicable, coordinate and integrate the efforts of the Arroyo Colorado Partnership with the activities of the groups identified.
Task 4: Resource Identification and Grant Writing
Objective: Identify potential state, federal, non-profit, and private sector resources useful to the Watershed Partnership for implementation of the Watershed Protection Plan and assist individual work groups in resource identification and grant writing for activities and projects associated with individual work group goals.
Task 5: Data Gathering and Analysis to Assess Effects of Water Quality Protection Plan
Objective: The ACGC will assemble and maintain a data clearinghouse for all data collected in the Arroyo and from that data, evaluate changes in BOD, TSS, fecal bacteria, and nutrient loading to Segments 2201 and 2202 of the Arroyo Colorado.