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Opportunity Summary:

The FA BLM AZ Lake Havasu Watershed/Water Quality Assessment grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L14AS00176) is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement focused on understanding how storm-driven runoff and flooding affect water quality, sediment movement, and shoreline and habitat conditions along the Lake Havasu interface in Mohave County, Arizona. Lake Havasu City, a community of about 53,000 residents spread across roughly 42 square miles, contains ten major drainage sub-basins that funnel periodic runoff through city washes and out into Lake Havasu. Because the city limits extend down to the lake high water mark at elevation 450 feet above mean sea level, while BLM manages the lands below that elevation for recreation and wildlife (on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation), the nearshore zone where lake levels fluctuate (roughly 445 to 449.5 feet seasonally) becomes the key area where storm water, sediments, and potential pollutants interact with federally managed shoreline resources. The core driver behind the project is the need to protect Lake Havasu water quality for multiple uses, including recreation, fish and wildlife, and domestic, industrial, and irrigation purposes, while supporting implementation of an ADEQ-approved Stormwater Management Plan intended to identify and manage pollution threats originating from runoff flows through the city.

A major reason this work was prioritized is that a substantial flood on July 13, 2012, ranked among the upper tier of historical flood events for the area and fundamentally altered conditions that earlier mapping and sampling had treated as a baseline. Those high flows reshaped channels and deltas, affected riparian habitats, and pushed significant sediment loads into the lake, meaning that continued monitoring is needed to re-establish post-flood baseline conditions and track how future rain events further modify water quality and the lake edge environment. The opportunity supports a longer-term assessment approach because rainfall events in the Lake Havasu City area are infrequent and seasonal, mainly tied to summer monsoon storms and winter rain periods, so multi-year observation is necessary to capture representative storm impacts.

The project objective is to carry out a five-year sampling and assessment effort designed to collect, analyze, and interpret water and soil data linked to flood and stormwater inputs, with an emphasis on conditions at the mouths (deltas) of the drainage basins where city runoff meets the lake. The work is expected to include at least 20 sampling stations at wash deltas, with laboratory analysis of both groundwater and surface water parameters that prior sampling identified as important. At a minimum, analyses are expected to cover salinity, nutrients, metals, and pathogens. The announcement notes that directly sampling flood waters is preferred because it provides the clearest picture of pollutant transport during storm events, but it is not mandatory; if floodwater sampling is not feasible during an event, the study can instead rely on subsurface water sampling at the drainage deltas to characterize post-event conditions and potential contaminant presence.

Beyond water chemistry, the scope includes physical and ecological monitoring tied to sediment and habitat change at the lake edge. Recipients are expected to assess and map sediment deposition patterns along the shoreline, including estimating newly deposited lake-bottom materials accumulating in delta areas. The project also calls for continued assessment of vegetative communities impacted by flooding to determine whether plant community composition is shifting over time, and for ongoing photo-point monitoring at the identified deltas to document shoreline changes visually and consistently. The announcement also encourages, as a desirable component, testing sediments or organisms within delta formations to better understand pollutant accumulation and whether local biological communities show tolerance or response to contaminant exposure. As part of the sediment-focused work, at least 100 acres of delta deposits are to continue being assessed, signaling that the effort is meant to be landscape-scale rather than limited to a few isolated sampling points.

A specific additional monitoring element is included for the Recreation and Public Purpose lease area known as the Havasu 280, which is leased to Lake Havasu City for development projects including a golf course, community park, and performing arts center. This property is adjacent to Lake Havasu and is bisected by Indian Peak Wash, making it directly relevant to stormwater and salinity concerns. The grant work includes collecting and analyzing soil and water samples to establish baseline salinity concentrations below the lease area, reflecting a monitoring commitment identified in the environmental assessment for the lease and aimed at understanding whether development-related activities or wash flows could influence salinity conditions over time.

In terms of deliverables and reporting, the announcement anticipates that findings and recommendations from the later phases of the study (described as the third and fourth year study components) will be compiled into a final report serving both City and BLM purposes, with the report to be drafted and delivered by the primary City investigator in collaboration with the BLM point of contact. The description also indicates an intended deadline framework for final reporting tied to agency management review and submission, with copies to appropriate managers before a stated date (September 30, 2015) in the original announcement narrative, reflecting the administrative timeline associated with that funding cycle.

Administratively, this opportunity was categorized as a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement instrument under the Natural Resources activity category, tied to CFDA 15.236 (Environmental Quality and Protection Resource Management). It anticipated a single award with a total funding amount of $31,108, with the award floor and ceiling both set at $31,108, meaning the funding amount was effectively fixed rather than a range. Cost sharing or matching was not required. Eligibility was listed as unrestricted (open to any type of entity), with the eligibility section stating "Anyone" could apply. The announcement was posted June 25, 2014, and required electronic submission through Grants.gov by July 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, with late proposals not considered. The listed agency contact for access issues and grants management questions was Eddie W. Bell Jr., Grants Management Officer, reachable at 602-417-9268 and ebell@blm.gov.

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