Privately Owned and Non-Profit Ditch Company Grants
This program provides assistance to private and non-profit ditch companies, as well as watershed coalitions, for ditch repairs and implementation of resilience measures. These services are vital to the economic recovery effort of agricultural businesses because of the dependence on ditch-delivered water in the semi-arid farming environment of Colorado, the economic impacts from damaged ditches are passed down to the low- and moderate-income farming demographic.
Program Participants
Program participants include ditch companies and Watershed Coalitions that are located in federally‐declared disaster areas from 2012 – 2013.
|
Disaster Declared |
Year |
Counties Affected |
|
2013 Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides |
Sept. 2013 |
Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Clear Creek, Crowley, Denver, El Paso, Fremont, Gilpin, Jefferson, Lake, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld |
|
Black Forest Wildfire |
Summer 2013 |
El Paso |
|
Royal Gorge Wildfire |
Summer 2013 |
Fremont |
|
High Park and Waldo Canyon Wildfires |
Summer 2012 |
El Paso, Larimer, Teller |
Applications Closed
Staff is currently working with those eligible applicants who applied and were awarded funds, to reimburse them for disaster-related expenses.
Contacts for Program
KC McFerson, CDBG-DR Watershed Program Manager
Department of Local Affairs, Community Development Office
(303) 864‐7887
kc.mcferson@state.co.us