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Colorado Rapid Watershed Assessments
The NRCS in Colorado is in the process of developing Rapid Watershed
Assessments (RWAs) to provide a natural resource snapshot and overview of each
Colorado 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC-8). The RWAs organize resource
information into one document that local conservationists, units of government,
and others can use to identify conservation opportunities and direct technical
and financial resources to the appropriate sub basins. They provide a
description of the sub basins' natural resources, resource concerns,
conservation needs, and ability to resolve natural resource issues and concerns.
RWAs typically contain the following information:
• Physical resources
• Land use and land cover
• Water quality conditions report
• Soil, stream, precipitation data
• Resource concerns
• Census and social data
• Progress/status of conservation by land use
• Estimated future conservation practice application and associated costs
Most of the data for the RWAs were collected through the Colorado Vegetation
Classification Project Land Cover Data, NRCS National Resources Inventory, Census of Agriculture, and numerous
Federal and Colorado state agencies including the Colorado Association of Conservation
Districts, the State Conservation Board of the Colorado Department of
Agriculture, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado
State University, Local NRCS and partnership employee field staffs assisted in
the compilation and verification of the data.
Over the course of several years, NRCS will be completing RWAs for the 94 HUC-8
sub basins that are contained within Colorado’s boundaries. The following map
shows the available resource assessments in Blue.
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Frank Riggle
Assistant State Conservationist - Water Resources
655 Parfet Street, Room E200C
Lakewood, CO 80215
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