Projects and Studies
Projects and Studies funded by the Yampa-White-Green Basin Roundtable
The Water Supply Reserve Fund Grant Program (WSRF) is one of the grant programs that the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) operates. The Yampa-White-Green Basin Roundtable has an account under this program so that the YWG BRT can allocate funds to projects/studies that support the YWG BRT Basin Implementation Plan (BIP) and the Colorado Water Plan.
This page contains the projects and studies that have been completed that used WSRF funds approved by the YWG BRT. Use the map for a quick intro to completed projects/studies but for a more detailed description please use the tables listed below.
YWG BRT Account:
$5,481,055
WSRF State Account
$1,728,136
Total Amount
$7,209,190
Last updated 7/16/2024
Recent YWG BRT WSRF funded projects/studies
City of Craig Yampa River Water Park
City of Craig
Development of white water river park at the City of Craig inlet.
Approved: March, 2021
Basin Ask: $65,000
Sheriff Dam Rehabilitation
Town of Oak Creek
Phase 1 of the rehabilitation of the Sheriff Dam outlet
Approved: March, 2021
Basin Ask: $73,750
White River Integrated Water Initiative Phase 2
White River Conservation District
Support of the White River Integrated Water Initiative
Approved: March, 2021
Basin Ask: $49,000 State Ask: $66,000
Yampa-White-Green Education and Outreach 2020
Community Agriculture Alliance
Three year grant for the YWG BRT Education and Outreach
Approved: July , 2020
Basin Ask: $99,000
Drescher Dam Rehabilitation
Nick Charchalis
Phase one of the Drescher Dam Rehabilitation
Approved: July , 2020
Basin Ask: $10,000
Diversion Infrastructure Improvement Project
Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District
Pilot project to provide funding for needed diversions/measuring devices in the conservancy district boundaries
Approved: January, 2020
Basin Ask: $100,000
Elkhead Creek Restoration Project Phase 1
Trout Unlimited
Joint NCRS/Trout Unlimited project to improve the banks of Elkhead Creek below the dam.
Approved: March, 2020
Basin Ask: $50,000 State Ask: $150,000
Maybell Diversion and Headgate Project Telemetry
The Nature Conservancy
Purchase of telemetry equipment as part of the Maybell diversion restoration project.
Approved: September, 2021
Basin Ask: $34,000 State Ask: $66,000
Maybell Ditch Diversion Structure and Headgate Rehabilitation Study
Approved: May, 2019
Basin Ask: $73,000
Ain't Lyon Ranch
Ain’t Lyon Ranch
Pump and flume installation
Approved: August 15, 2024
State Ask: $9,000
Youth and Community Education
Yampatika
Ongoing efforts to address elementary education throughout the three watersheds.
Approved: March 2023
Basin Ask: $99,552
Yampa River Dashboard
Upper Yampa Water Concervancy District
The Dashboard will be online data infrastructure that provides water rights, water users, owners, and
the general public a centralized, interactive means of monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and extracting
relevant information from different datasets in key areas while displaying information in an
interactive, intuitive, and visual way.
Approved: March 2023
Basin Ask: $95,000
White River Integrated Water Initiative Phase 3
White River Conservation District
Support of the White River Integrated Water Initiative
Approved: March, 2023
Basin Ask: $149,410
Yampa River Corridor Project
City of Craig
The YWF BRT Grant funding requested would be applied towards construction of the instream improvements only at the whitewater park location.
Approved: September, 2021
Basin Ask: $100,000 State Ask: $100,000
Data Logger/Telemetry Installation Project: Bear River and Sarvis Creek
Division of Water Resources
The purpose of this project is to install data loggers with built-in satellite transmitters and radar level sensors on diversion structures located on the main stem of the Bear River in South Routt County and on the Sarvis Creek trans-basin diversion. Data loggers allow for continuous water flow data to be uploaded and accessed by both water users and water administrators on the DWR website in near real-time. The ability to access near real-time diversion data increases accuracy and efficiency of native stream flow and reservoir deliveries, improves water management decisions and response time, and provides transparent and equitable administration. The data that is uploaded is also archived by DWR and provides a long-term record of water use that secures and protects the value of senior water rights.
Approved: July 2023
Basin Ask: $25,200 State Ask: $132,300
Fortification Creek Stage Sensor and Telemetry Project
The City of Craig
This Project is to install a stage sensor and telemetry to monitor Fortification Creek.
Approved: September, 2023
Basin Ask: $10,000
Agricultural Drought Resilience and Innovative Water Conservation Phase 2
Colorado Agricultural Water Alliance
Phase 2 of this project will include funding new drought projects (project funding, outreach & support, and technical advisory) and scaling up successful current projects (project funding, project management, technical advisory).
Approved: September, 2023
Basin Ask: $75,000 State Ask: $43,194
Upper Yampa Reservoir Rehabilitation Phase 1
Colorado Agricultural Water Alliance
This project is a collaborative effort involving seven reservoirs in Routt County. The intent of a group approach is to not only make the grant process and management easier, but to reduce costs and better coordinate with engineers and construction. All seven of these reservoirs are either listed as consitionall dissatisfactory or unsatisfactory by the Division of Dam Safety. In Phase 1, the reservoir owners will complete the required work on these structures they are allowed to complete without an engineering plan and is referred as “Dam Maintenance.” This includes tree removal from embankments, some dirt work and grading, some erosion control, and installing new measurement devices. Phase 1 also includes the engineering and design for the construction work that will eventually be completed in Phase 2.
Approved: September, 2025
Basin Ask: $20,000 State Ask: $92,263
FY24 PEPO
Community Agriculture Alliance
Continued support of the Yampa White Green Basin Roundtable’s Public Education, Participation and Outreach efforts.
Approved: October, 2023
Basin Ask: $25,000
Norvell Infrastructure Project
Community Agriculture Alliance
The existing headgate structure would be replaced to accommodate new headgate(s) along with constructing a new concrete diversion wingwall.
Approved: January, 2024
Basin Ask: $99,750
Nickell Diversion Upgrade
Community Agriculture Alliance
This project looks to install a new stop-log diversion and headgate at the Nickell ditch on the Bear River.
Approved: May, 2025
Basin Ask: $24,780 State Ask: $161,070
Stillwater Reservoir Downstream Blanket Drain
Bear River Reservoir Company
The project is to construct a downstream blanket drain on the north hillside and left abutment groin
area immediately downstream of the left abutment. The drain’s purpose is to provide a filtered exit
for seepage, both through and/or around the left abutment, and natural flows from the hillside
adjacent to the abutment.
Approved: September, 2024
Basin Ask: $24,000 State Ask: $144,000
Colorado Dust on Snow Program
Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies
The Colorado Dust-on-Snow Project objective is to continue to serve the Colorado water
community for the next three years by:
Conduct statewide dust-on-snow field campaigns to track the severity and extent of dust
events throughout the snow accumulation and ablation period
Analyze data and provide timely and applicable updates to forecasters, water managers,
water community and stakeholders
Maintain project webpages with data files, graphics, and relevant information
Improve data, visualization, and interpretation platforms on basin specific webpages for
easy public dissemination of information
Provide educational outreach throughout Colorado
Maintain Project’s three energy balance climate stations and stream gauge
Dust-on-snow and meteorological data management, QA/QC, and reporting
Approved: March, 2022
Basin Ask: $15,000 State Ask: $15,000
Yampa White Green Education and Outreach 2025-2027
Community Agriculture Alliance
Three years of continued support for the Public Education, Participation and Outreach committee of the Yampa White Green Basin Roundtable.
Approved: September, 2024
Basin Ask: $68,250
Stillwater Reservoir Repair and Upgrades
Bear River Reservoir Company
The project consists of 1) selection and cost estimate between the three different solutions approved by the Colorado Division of Dam Safety, for embankment stabilization of the left abutment, and 2) a request for an upgrade to the reservoirs hydraulic system to ensure safe, dependable and environmentally secure operation of the reservoir.
Approved: September, 2022
Basin Ask: $139,500
Drescher Dam Rehabilitation Phase 2
Nick Charchalis
The next phase and work included in this grant is the long-term rehabilitation repairs. This includes several components to meet the requirements of Dam Safety: (1) embankment earthwork to repair upstream water erosion scarp and re-shape embankment crest and repair deep rodent holes, (2) remove concrete rubble from dam and use on spillway, (3) place wave-protection rock riprap on upstream face, (4) mitigate seeps by installing toe drains, and (5) replace outlet pipe and excavation work.
Approved: September 2022
Basin Ask: $62,440
Use the filter bar below to see specific types of projects or by year. Click on a project to learn more.
Last updated 7/16/2024
Past YWG BRT WSRF funded projects/studies
Completed Projects and Studies
Maybell Ditch Project
Supported the addition of a waste gate to the Maybell Canal
Approved: November, 2016
Basin Ask: $45,675
Little Snake River Basin Interstate Conflict Reduction
Interstate Conflict Reduction and Consumptive Use Accountability in the Little Snake River Basin
Approved: March 2022
Basin Ask: $10,000 State Ask: $16,100
Martin Springs Irrigation and Storage Improvements
Improved a small reservoir and irrigation structures
Approved: September, 2019
Basin Ask: $7,462
Advancing K-12 Water Education in Western Colorado
White River Storage
Further study of the Wolf Creek Reservoir
Approved: March, 2017
Basin Ask: $85,000 State Ask: $82,888
Walker Ditch Headgate Replacement
Fund a new headgate structure on the Walker Ditch
Approved: May, 2019
Basin Ask: $62,222
Yampa-White-Green Education and Outreach
A three year grant to CAA to provide education and outreach in the Yampa-White-Green Basin on behave of the YWG BRT.
Awarded: May, 2016
Basin Ask: $150,000
Crosho Lake and Reservoir - Simon#1 Dam Outlet Replacement
Project to replace the outlet of Simon #1 Dam
Approved: March, 2016
Basin Ask: $30,000 State Ask: $108,380
Characterization of Streamflow, Suspended Sediment and Nutrients in the Upper Yampa River Basin
Study on the upper Yampa above Stagecoach Reservoir on streamflow, suspended sediment and nutrients conducted by the USGS.
Approved: January, 2019
Basin Ask: $77,424
Yampa River Health Assessment and Streamflow Management Plan
A study of the Yampa River health from Stagecoach Reservoir to the wastewater treatment plant and development of streamflow management plan.
Improvement of Lysimeter operations and consumptive use quantification in high-altitude, irrigated meadows in the Yampa/White Basin
White River Algae Research Project
Three year study on what could be causing the algae blooms in the White River
Approved: November, 2018 Completed: December, 2021
Basin Ask: $99,000
Yampa River Forests Restoration and Temperature Mitigation Project
In partnership of the Yampa Valley Sustainability Counsel three year project to develop a nursery and plant trees along the Yampa to reduce water temperature
Approved: January, 2019
Basin Ask: $25,000
Yampatika "Yampa White Green Rivers K-12 Curriculum"
Three year grant to develop and provide water education curriculum to the school districts within the Yampa-White-Green basin.
Approved: November, 2019 Completed June 2023
Basin Ask: $99,053