Projects & Funding

Stream Management Implementation Program (SMIP)

The Ashokan Water­shed Stream Man­age­ment Pro­gram (AWSMP) makes fund­ing avail­able for com­mu­nity part­ners to imple­ment rec­om­men­da­tions iden­ti­fied in the AWSMP Action Plan and in Stream Man­age­ment Plans. Projects must be car­ried out with­in the Ashokan Reser­voir Water­shed.

The AWSMP is now accept­ing appli­ca­tions for SMIP grant fund­ing. The dead­line for sub­mis­sion of appli­ca­tions is Wednes­day, June 30, 2021.

Elec­tron­ic sub­mis­sions are encour­aged. Please sub­mit your appli­ca­tions using the fol­low­ing form:

The AWSMP funds stew­ard­ship projects in the fol­low­ing categories:

- Plan­ning
— Education
— Research, Assess­ment and Monitoring
(see pri­or­i­ty research needs)
— Stream-Relat­ed Pub­lic Infra­struc­ture Improvements
(see project eli­gi­bil­i­ty guid­ance)
— Flood Haz­ard Mitigation
— Stream Restoration

Appli­ca­tions for projects rec­om­mend­ed in a Local Flood Analy­sis plan may be sub­mit­ted at any time. See instruc­tions in Local Flood Analy­sis Fund­ing sec­tion below.

Eli­gi­ble appli­cants include local, coun­ty, state, or fed­eral gov­ern­ment agen­cies, 501©(3) orga­ni­za­tions, sec­ondary school dis­tricts, col­leges or uni­ver­si­ties. For-prof­it firms or insti­tu­tions may sub­mit fund­ing appli­ca­tions in the Research, Assess­ment and Mon­i­tor­ing cat­e­go­ry only.

Poten­tial SMIP appli­cants are asked to care­ful­ly review the fol­low­ing poli­cies before sub­mit­ting an application:

Insur­ance Requirements
Copy­rights and Access to Information

The Ashokan Water­shed Stream Man­age­ment Pro­gram accepts SMIP fund­ing appli­ca­tions dur­ing three fund­ing rounds each year.

The AWSMP has pro­vid­ed over $4.9 mil­lion for stream and flood­plain man­age­ment projects in the Ashokan water­shed since the SMIP began in 2009.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Leslie Zuck­er at (845) 688‑3047 or laz5@cornell.edu.

Local Flood Analysis Funding

Fund­ing for munic­i­pal­i­ties to con­duct Local Flood Analy­sis (LFA) and imple­ment rec­om­mend­ed flood mit­i­ga­tion solu­tions in eli­gi­ble com­mu­ni­ties is avail­able year-round. Local Flood Analy­sis sup­ports plan­ning and fea­si­bil­i­ty projects led by munic­i­pal­i­ties to:

• Deter­mine the con­di­tions con­tribut­ing to inun­da­tion of pub­lic and pri­vate infra­struc­ture asso­ci­at­ed with high flows with­in pop­u­la­tion cen­ters (see list of eli­gi­ble pop­u­la­tion cen­ters below);
• Devel­op and ana­lyze the poten­tial of spe­cif­ic projects, and projects in com­bi­na­tion, to mit­i­gate these flood dam­ages and hazards;
• Char­ac­ter­ize the rel­a­tive costs and ben­e­fits of tech­ni­cal­ly effec­tive projects; and
• Assist com­mu­ni­ties in deter­min­ing the fea­si­bil­i­ty of projects that are shown to be both tech­ni­cal­ly fea­si­ble and cost-effective.

The fol­low­ing pop­u­la­tion cen­ters in the Ashokan Reser­voir water­shed are eli­gi­ble for Local Flood Analysis:

Town of Olive: West Shokan, Boiceville, Ashokan
Town of Shan­dak­en: Big Indi­an, Shandaken/Allaben, Pine Hill, Chichester,
Phoeni­cia, and Mount Tremper
Town of Hur­ley: Glenford

Fund­ing is avail­able on a rolling basis until LFAs have been com­plet­ed for all eli­gi­ble pop­u­la­tion cen­ters in the Ashokan Reser­voir watershed.

To apply for LFA fund­ing from the AWSMP, read and com­plete the LFA plan­ning appli­ca­tion avail­able for download:

Fund­ing Appli­ca­tion for Local Flood Analy­sis — Planning

Appli­ca­tions to fund LFA-rec­om­mend­ed imple­men­ta­tion projects adopt­ed by com­mu­ni­ties may be sub­mit­ted at any time. To apply for LFA fund­ing from the AWSMP, read and com­plete the LFA imple­men­ta­tion appli­ca­tion avail­able for download:

Fund­ing Appli­ca­tion for Local Flood Analy­sis — Implementation

Vis­it the Local Flood Analy­sis pro­gram web­site for more infor­ma­tion, and read the LFA fund­ing pro­gram rules.

The AWSM­P’s LFA fund­ing pro­gram is admin­is­tered by Cor­nell Coop­er­a­tive Exten­sion of Ulster Coun­ty. Fund­ing for the LFA pro­gram comes from the NYC Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Protection.

The Ashokan Water­shed Stream Man­age­ment Pro­gram is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Cor­nell Coop­er­a­tive Exten­sion of Ulster Coun­ty, the Ulster Coun­ty Soil & Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict, and the NYC Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Protection.