Water Quality Monitoring in the Las Vegas Wash Mainstream and Tributaries

Post Date

September 2nd 2010

Application Due Date

September 16th 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

R10SF30011

CFDA Number(s)

15.540

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Environment

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This Funding Announcement is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of Reclamation’s intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $411543

• Award Range:

  $411543 - $411543

Grant Description

This Cooperative Agreement will support the continuation of water quality sampling in the LVW and tributaries for real-time water quality data to be collected at approximately five sites; water quality samples to be collected at eight mainstream sites, eight tributary sites, and five well sites; and extensive selenium sampling at three tributaries. Water will be analyzed at sites for nutrients, metals, organics, total suspended solids, low-level selenium, bacteria, and cations and anions, among other analytes.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Reclamation

• Agency Contact:

  Shawna Thompson
  Grants Officer
  Phone 702-293-8570

• Agency Mailing Address:

  smthompson@usbr.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  smthompson@usbr.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Reclamation - Lower Colorado Region