This contract is primarily for the installations of the pump screens.

The outreach to irrigators, permitting, site assessments, designs, and cost estimates were accomplished under contract number 54643.  Originally part of contract 54643, the actual purchase and installation of the screens was delayed because the cultural resources review was more complex and extensive than originally anticipated and planned for under contract 54643.  Thus, it is anticipated that, by the time the cultural resources review and reporting are complete, it will be too late to install screens--the ground will be frozen--and the screens will have to be installed in Spring 2013.

Under this contract, up to12 screens will installed.  Initially, it was thought 14 screens would be installed but it was determined that the screens which would be installed are river screens and these types of screens are more expensive.  Since the majority of screens to be installed under this contract are of the river type screens, up to 12 screens will be possible to install due to the cost of the fabrication and installation of these types of screens.  The SoW contains 12 locations or project sites.  The subcontractor has identified the locations of the screens that won't be installed under this contract due to funding constraints, the SoW has been amended to include the appropriate WEs for WE #69 (Install Fish Screens).

The following below the line is background information regarding this contract and its history:

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This is one of three projects funded, in part, by BPA (matching funds from SRFB and USFWS) through the Upper Columbia Habitat Project for FFY 2011 (project # 2010-001-00). The costs associated with administering this contract are covered under the programmatic project contract # 50379 and the subsequent contract.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), Technical Applications Program (TAPPS), proposes to initiate a voluntary cooperative compliance pump-screening program within the Columbia Cascade Providence.  This program will be administered similar to one developed by WDFW and the Walla Walla Conservation District for the Walla Walla basin. This on the ground, program will partner with local conservation districts, tribes, and fisheries enhancement groups for outreach and corrections. Initial diversion information will come from existing pump screen inventory information that resides with the WDFW TAPPS group. This information will be used to initiate contact and provide reassessment, design, and correction, (i.e. new screening devices that meet current state and federal fish screening criteria) in the Okanogan basin next year. The project objective is to provide 100 percent protection from mortality and/or injury for all species and life stages of anadromous and resident fish, including ESA listed Steelhead that come in contact with pump diversions.

The Okanogan Conservation District will implement a voluntary cooperative compliance pump screening program within the Okanogan River Basin. This program will use the inventory results generated by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife that identified non-compliant diversions on the Okanogan River. The WDFW currently has data consisting of diversion locations (GPS) on 188 pump diversions on the Okanogan River of which 143 are listed as not having compliant screens. To date (9/30/2012), seventeen (17) of these screens have been replaced.  The Okanogan Conservation District will continue to correlate these locations with the Washington State Department of Ecology water resources data to determine ownership of the screens and associated water rights so that the appropriate irrigators can be contacted. This program will partner with the Colville Confederated Tribes Fisheries Department, the Washington State Conservation Commission Irrigation Efficiencies Program, and the Washington State Department of Ecology Water Resources Program. The Okanogan Conservation District (OCD) will conduct landowner outreach activities—direct contact with willing landowners and assist with procurement and installation of pump screens. Individual projects within the basin will be prioritized by using existing inventory information through ground-truthing and by expressed willingness of individual landowners.