GJN4232 Eugene Springfield Metro Waterways Study

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