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| A | 240794 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Manage and administer BPA contract | Covers contract administration and coordination. Includes developing a contract renewal package (SOW, line item budget, and property inventory), reporting cost share, drafting and submitting invoices (on a monthly basis), and reviewing and modifying previous contract's WE budget actual amounts. | $25,000 | 9.79% | 05/01/2022 | 12/31/2023 |
| B | 240795 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Produce EC documents on identified projects | Custer SWCD will work with BPA to identify EC requirements as projects develop and to provide EC documentation. This includes cultural survey, HIP IV and permits as required by law. If needed, cultural resource surveys will be completed by a subcontractor and a detailed budget estimate will be attached to the budget spreadsheet. | $6,000 | 2.35% | 05/01/2022 | 04/30/2023 |
| C | 240796 | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Periodic Status Reports for BPA | The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces. Reports shall be completed either monthly or quarterly as determined by the BPA COTR. Additionally, when indicating a deliverable milestone as COMPLETE, the contractor shall provide metrics and the final location (latitude and longitude) prior to submitting the report to the BPA COTR. | $1,000 | 0.39% | 07/01/2022 | 12/31/2023 |
| D | 240797 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit Progress Report for the period May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022 | The progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or level of effort for contract implementation, including any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole. Date range May 1, 2021 thru April 30, 2022 will be agreed upon by the COTR and the contractor. This may or may not coincide with the contract period. For an ongoing project, a progress report covering a contract period may be submitted under the subsequent contract, if approved by the COTR. Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. | $800 | 0.31% | 05/20/2022 | 07/10/2022 |
| E | 240798 | 114 | Identify and Select Projects | Identify and select projects based on partnership coordination with Pahsimeroi Subcommittee | Custer SWCD, with assistance from the Pahsimeroi Subcommittee of the Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Program, has identified a list of projects that could be implemented in the next 2 years if funding is available, including but not limited to PBSC #2, Sulphur Creek Screening, water conservation projects in the upper basin reaches, and riparian fences. These potential projects will be identified in part by using the Salmon Subbasin Management Plan, physical and biological data collected locally, IRA/MRA, and other prioritization processes (in development) to focus on prioritized areas and actions, projects will be identified and prioritized based on the most current biological (fish) and physical habitat data. Then ranking will be completed by the Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Tech Team. This prioritization will focus on benefits to all life stages of Snake River Chinook and steelhead. This contract will provide for opportunity for the district to work with the planning team and landowners to determine viability of these projects and implementation time frames for future contracts. | $5,000 | 1.96% | 05/01/2022 | 04/30/2023 |
| F | 240799 | 175 | Produce Design | Produce design for in-stream habitat restoration on Muddy Springs | The area of interest is Muddy Springs Creek, which is a tributary to the Pahsimeroi River. This was one of the four systems re-connected after the P-9 project. This project reach of Muddy Springs within the Hayes property is approximately 10,000 feet of meandering stream. The lower reach was de-watered through most of the year for many years and was reconnected as a part of the P-9 Project in approximately 2015. Much of the stream has recovered on it's own but additional in-stream structure and vegetative plantings could increase it's viability for all species of fish (including juvenile rearing Snake River Chinook and steelhead). This project will improve habitat forms and processes for juvenile spring Chinook salmon and summer steelhead. Juvenile salmonid habitat enhancement will be accomplished through narrowing the channel width by placement large woody debris, channel spanning logs and BDA’s along with extensive riparian planting. Intended flooding in some areas will help reduced sediment in both Muddy Springs and the Pahsimeroi. Project actions will provide overwintering and summer habitat for juvenile fish and address limiting factors for salmonid production in the Pahsimeroi River watershed, such as reduced stream complexity and degraded riparian conditions.
Under this work element engineers will be hired to develop a design on this reach of Muddy Springs. The stream has been fully fenced and is currently a excluded from grazing. This project will likely be installed in three phases over the next three years.
This work was prioritized as HIGH by The Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Tech Team and was ranked 78 (>61 is high priority). | $23,410 | 9.17% | 05/02/2022 | 04/14/2023 |
| G | 240800 | 40 | Install Fence | Install or repair approximately 6000 feet of Jack Fence on Muddy Springs. Approximately 2000 feet of fence may be replaced with new fence in areas where the fence has deteriorated. | In 2004 approximately 14,912 feet of riparian fence was installed that included both sides of the Muddy Springs and the lower reach of the Pahsimeroi in an exclusion fence. This work element proposes to secure fence materials and bid fence construction to be completed throughout this contract including winter months. The construction of approximately 4000 feet of repair and approximately 2000 feet of new sections of jack post and pole fence along Muddy Springs will allow Custer SWCD to extend a 2004 contract (held between Custer SWCD and the Land Owner) for an additional 10 year period and will prevent livestock from accessing the new habitat complexity project and newly planted riparian vegetation along the lower reach of Muddy Springs Creek.
The Muddy Springs project fence was ranked, by the Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Tech Team, in conjunction with the Habitat project and ranked high (78). | $4,535 | 1.78% | 08/01/2022 | 12/22/2023 |
| H | 240801 | 47 | Plant Vegetation | Plant native vegetation on Muddy Springs Creek near in the area of the new habitat complexity project. | A planting plan has been developed for the Phase I habitat complexity project. Plantings in summer are often not successful so this planting will take place in fall or early spring. The goal is to capitalize on areas of the habitat work that will improve available water to the new vegetation. This will also require protection from wildlife with fence identified in WE I. This WE will complete Phase 1 of the willow planting from the 2022 Feb/March. The remaining planting will occur during the in-stream work window identified in permits that are currently in place. Phase I installed in February/March included harvested willow clumps planted as a part of the prior contract's WE for Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain Complexity. This Work Element (Plant Vegetation) will introduce native vegetation to the riparian area in small pockets that can be protected by wildlife fence due to the number of elk that inhabit the area during the winter.
A planting plan, attached in the documents, was developed for Phase I of the Muddy Springs project. Due to delays in design and permits only the construction of the habitat complexity was able to take place in the 2021/2022 contract. By utilizing this plan we will evaluate the best location for small plots of planting and the best time to plant based on weather and available water to complete these plantings. | $21,845 | 8.56% | 05/01/2022 | 11/17/2023 |
| I | 240802 | 40 | Install Fence | Install new wildlife fence around new vegetation on Muddy Springs | The Muddy Springs area has a great deal of wildlife that utilize this area in the winter months. New vegetation that will be installed on Muddy Springs needs to be protected by wildlife fence (e.g tall wire deer/elk fence) in short segments where plantings take place (~20 clumps of new vegetation along the 0.5 mile length of the project area). This work element will protect the new plantings in WE H 47. | $0 | 0.00% | 05/20/2022 | 12/22/2023 |
| J | 240803 | 29 | Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain Complexity | Increase habitat complexity in Muddy Springs by implementing Phase II by installing woody structures and creating pools to provide habitat and cover for juvenile fish. | Muddy Springs Habitat Improvement Project Phase II will enhance habitat on 0.80 river miles in the Pahsimeroi River watershed. Muddy Springs Creek is a spring creek that connects to the Pahsimeroi River. Muddy Springs Creek flows into the Pahsimeroi in the heart of Chinook Salmon spawning habitat and is ideal summer and winter rearing habitat for juvenile fish and may also create thermal refuge in the summer and winter as it maintains a steady water temperature and does not freeze. Much of the channel had been de-watered for over 50 years. Due to this de-watering it lacks riparian vegetation and in-stream complexity. This project will improve habitat forms and processes for juvenile spring Chinook salmon and summer steelhead. Juvenile salmonid habitat enhancement will be accomplished through narrowing the channel width by placement large woody debris, channel spanning logs and BDA’s along with extensive riparian planting. Intended flooding in some areas will help reduced sediment in both Muddy Springs and the Pahsimeroi. Similar to Phase I, Channel spanning wood structures in varying configurations will be installed throughout the reach. Pond structures and several island structures are also proposed in this design. The purpose of these structures is to provide habitat and cover for juvenile fish, increase instream complexity, narrow the channel, and increase water surface elevations to reconnect the adjacent floodplain. These structures will be constructed with a combination of whole trees, rootwads, racking and slash, willow clumps, willow cuttings, and untreated posts. Most structures will be channel spanning. Approximately 6 pools will be installed with this project. | $167,706 | 65.69% | 11/18/2022 | 10/15/2023 |
| K | 240804 | 203 | Install Water Conservation Measure | Install well to replace P12/13 surface water in order to allow more water in-stream in the middle reach of the Pahsimeroi. | The water users on P-12/13 surface water irrigation system are willing to complete a source switch to convert the surface water right of up to 3.5 cfs to ground water. Inclusive of the project would be a wildlife mitigation water right to ensure native vegetation in the old P-11 ditch would remain viable for bald eagle, pheasant, elk and deer. The remaining water would be kept in-stream and be transferred to the existing P-10 diversion and delivered downstream where existing water transactions would ensure the water would remain in-stream through a reach of the Pahsimeori that has an established minimum stream flow. Water administration at the current P-12 diversion would be key to the implementation of this project. The project was found to be valuable at the Upper Pahsimeroi Meeting on November 22, 2022. Ranking by USBWP will be updated after review is completed. | $0 | 0.00% | 03/01/2023 | 12/29/2023 |
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