Cooperative Agreement R17AC00122

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $234,088.39 Cooperative Agreement to the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) under the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (CFDA 15.980) program. The agreement period runs from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026. Under this award, OWRB will provide persistent data services for two years to ensure the continuous flow of their groundwater data to the NGWMN data portal. OWRB will also perform well maintenance on 39 wells and upgrade or...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $255,192 Cooperative Agreement to Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, to support the Indiana Geological and Water Survey's (IGS) contributions to the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) program (CFDA 15.980). Through this two-year project, the IGS will: 1) maintain up-to-date site metadata in the NGWMN monitoring location registry, 2) ensure data services continue to deliver data to the NGWMN data...

The Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) was awarded $159,244.56 under a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) program (CFDA 15.980) effective September 15, 2025 through September 14, 2027. Under this two-year award, the OWRB will serve as a data provider to the NGWMN by delivering persistent data services to ensure continuous data flow to the NGWMN data portal and maintaining up-to-date metadata in the NGWMN monitoring...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $175,634 Cooperative Agreement to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MSDEQ) under the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) program (CFDA 15.980). The project period runs from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2025. Under this award, MSDEQ will: 1) provide persistent data services for two years to ensure continuous flow of Mississippi's water-level data to the NGWMN data portal; 2) update metadata for NGWMN monitoring...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) provides $401,282 to Oklahoma State University to generate agricultural groundwater withdrawal data across the Upper Red River Basin. The project aims to develop a dataset of active water wells and groundwater use for irrigation to mitigate the unintended consequences of aquifer overdraft due to irrigation expansion in the region. The key activities...

Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded a $959,752 cooperative agreement to the City of Beverly Hills on April 1, 2026, to implement the Groundwater Wells at La Cienega Park Project under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202), as directed in the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The City will construct two new municipal-supply groundwater wells at La Cienega Park to enhance drinking water infrastructure. Work includes pre-construction activities, construction...

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...

Cooperative Agreement Award Summary Oregon State University received a $447,546 Cooperative Agreement (G25AC00373) from the U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030, to construct and operate an eddy covariance tower in the upper Klamath Basin for direct measurement of evapotranspiration (ET) and water flux data. The project will deliver core eddy covariance datasets along with associated meteorological and...

This $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) will support two major water projects in the Harney Basin of Oregon: 1) a beaver survey and analysis of stream water storage potential, and 2) flood flow distribution modeling of the Harney Valley under different flow regimes. The funding will also support the Community Based Water Planning Collaborative's development of an Integrated Water...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement to Deltares USA Inc., a non-profit research institute in Silver Spring, Maryland, under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808). The purpose of the grant is to support the development, implementation, and improvement of models and methods to accurately represent water and subsurface resources for predicting water availability and use. Key deliverables include: Providing senior-level software...