Cooperative Agreement 106522001Q43522

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $145,400 to Colorado State University (CSU) to conduct research and monitoring activities related to riparian ecosystem restoration in the western United States. The key objectives include: Participating in the science team and working groups for Minute 323 of the U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty, which involves delivering water for active restoration of riparian sites in...

The Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District will receive $315,000 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) federal grant program to restore riparian corridors along 16 miles of Ashwaubenon Creek and 10 miles of Dutchman Creek in Wisconsin. Over the next three years, the Sewerage District will address water quality, riparian and instream habitat fragmentation, and degraded aquatic habitat through...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Idaho received a $225,658 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act – Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) on May 19, 2025, with completion scheduled for November 30, 2027. This Phase 1 case study will develop project design guidelines and methodologies to maximize summer low flow benefits from individual floodplain restoration projects in the Columbia River Basin. The research will quantify how...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.083 - Integrative Activities) will provide $299,789 to the Nevada System of Higher Education's Desert Research Institute (DRI) to develop new understanding of how Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) can be used to improve ecosystem management while also meeting water supply, flood management, and other high priority objectives in the western United States. The project aims to identify and quantify potential...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Oregon State University received a $116,505 project grant from the Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act – Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560), awarded August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2026. The project examines the influence of whole valley-floor restoration on late summer baseflows in Meadow Creek, Oregon, utilizing two complementary methodologies. The first approach employs integrated surface and groundwater flow...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded $215,000 under the Applied Science Grants program to develop an interactive web-based tool for efficient wildfire hydrologic simulation. Texas A&M University at Kingsville will partner with various state and federal entities to integrate remotely sensed data into a hydrologic model and equip watershed managers with a user-friendly workflow to quickly post-process variables associated with fire and drought. This will allow for...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $330,000.00, was granted by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) to Cornell University. The project, titled "Advancing System Integration and Stress Testing Methods in Support of Water Availability Assessment under Uncertainty", will contribute to the Predictive Understanding of Multiscale Processes (PUMP) project by developing and demonstrating a stress...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) provides $364,985.90 to support a 5-year project focused on assessing the impacts of the Three Creeks Grazing Consolidation Plan on riparian conditions and ecosystem services across a 57,000 hectare landscape in Utah. The project aims to determine how implementation of this new grazing management approach, which uses grazing duration and timing as tools,...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $187,234 Project Grant under its Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to the Clark Fork Coalition in partnership with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. The purpose of this 17-month project is to develop a web-based decision support tool that integrates water data on key variables influencing instream flow and water quality in the Upper Clark Fork River basin in Montana. This decision support tool will help natural resource...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Riversedge West received a $289,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244), awarded September 30, 2025, with a completion date of September 15, 2030. The organization will improve riparian areas on BLM-managed lands throughout Colorado by reducing invasive plant species, establishing and expanding native plant communities, and restoring aquatic and terrestrial habitats....