The Watershed Resilience Pilot Program is a holistic program designed to align watershed restoration and risk mitigation with community and economic development goals using a collaborative, multi-jurisdictional, coalition‐of‐partners approach.
CDBG-DR funds support capacity building through watershed coalition staffing; multi‐objective planning, modeling, and conceptual design activities; and project implementation to address long‐term system improvements that build resilience in watersheds. The Colorado Department of Local Affairs administers these competitive funds in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Colorado Watershed Conservation Board (CWCB).
Approximately $36 million was made available to watershed coalitions and their stakeholders, with approximately 80 percent of the funds being allocated to the hardest‐hit counties of Boulder, Larimer, and Weld.
Program Participants
Program participants include Watershed Coalitions that are located in federally‐declared disaster areas from 2012 –2013
Including FEMA Disasters
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4134‐DR Black Forest Wildfire; 4133‐DR Royal Gorge Wildfire; and
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4067‐DR High Park and Waldo Canyon Wildfires.
Disaster Declared
Year
Counties Affected
2013 Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides
Sept. 2013
Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Clear Creek, Crowley, Denver, El Paso, Fremont, Gilpin, Jefferson, Lake, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld
Black Forest Wildfire
Summer 2013
El Paso
Royal Gorge Wildfire
Summer 2013
Fremont
High Park and Waldo Canyon Wildfires
Summer 2012
El Paso, Larimer, Teller
Applications Closed
Staff is currently working with those eligible applicants who applied, and were awarded funds to reimburse them for disaster-related expenses.
Program Guidelines
Watershed & Ditch Guidelines Version 4.0
Contacts for Program
Will Cundiff, Grants Financial Administrator
303.864.8477
will.cundiff@state.co.us
Program Summary
Watershed Resilience Summary
DOLA - EWP Flood Recovery Summary