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Eugene - Springfield Metro Waterways Study March 2004 <br /> OVERVIEW <br /> VERVIEW I { <br /> The Project Management Plan (PMP) describes in detail the tasks budget <br /> line items comprising this study, and readers are encouraged to reference those <br /> specifications. In the PMP, tasks are sorted into major functional groupings and described <br /> in accordance with the Corps' Civil Works Breakdown Structure (WBS). The grouping <br /> of tasks facilitates report/product preparation and compilation, and each grouping lays out <br /> the individual components of a necessary investigation: engineering, economics, <br /> environmental, plan formulation, etc. The descriptions address the reasons for tasks; the <br /> techniques, models, and procedures to be used; the organizational elements responsible <br /> for each task; and the expected cost of each task. Relationships and dependencies <br /> between tasks are addressed in these descriptions. <br /> The accompanying "workplan," as requested by the non - Federal sponsors, for the Federal <br /> fiscal years of 2004 and 2005, uses as its organizing principle the Corps' six -step <br /> planning process (also described in the PMP). <br /> 1) Identify potential waterway measures; <br /> 2) Build analytical decision - making tools (including criteria for projects); <br /> 3) Synthesize data and develop predictive models; <br /> 4) Execute activities to support identification and formulation of projects; <br /> 5) Integrate the study with other major water resource efforts; and <br /> 6) Establish an institutional and implementation framework. <br /> This process helped the study team assess which of the myriad WBS tasks—over a four - <br /> or -more year course of study —would be primarily addressed at the onset of the <br /> feasibility phase. Logically, in the first two years we will expect to make greater <br /> headway on earlier components, in cases completing some foundational aspects of our <br /> work altogether. Perhaps we will touch later phases of this planning process, which <br /> ultimately ends with finished plans /designs and implementation (construction). <br /> This federal FY 04 -05, we forecast to expend approximately $1.9 million of the estimated <br /> total of $3.4 million for the initial feasibility work. At this writing, the local sponsors <br /> have identified over $800,000 in funds and in -kind services for study's first two years, <br /> though this figure will increase substantively once some late survey /mapping and study <br /> co- management estimations are finalized. <br /> WORK OBJECTIVES <br /> The goal of the study is to identify and address problems related to widely varied water <br /> resource values across a complex set of urban watersheds. These issues including flood <br /> protection, floodplain management, habitat and species restoration and conservation, <br /> surface and ground water quality, recreation and open spaces, and stormwater <br /> management. Problems are widely documented due to sedimentation, destabilized <br /> tributary streams, changed hydrologic regimes and water fluctuations, and other impacts <br /> on the system caused by intense human activity in the metro area and elsewhere in the <br />