Cooperative Agreement R19AC00063

The Department of Defense awarded a $378,916 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to facilitate fish passage at lock and dam structures in the Mississippi River. The award, effective from September 30, 2024 to March 29, 2026, supports research and development initiatives to improve the ability of fish to navigate through lock and dam structures in the Mississippi River basin. As a...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $268,500 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to finalize engineering designs and implementation plans to replace an undersized concrete box culvert on Strawberry Creek in McKinleyville, CA. The existing structure is a complete barrier to upstream fish passage for ESA-listed coho salmon and steelhead trout, as well as coastal cutthroat trout and...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species (CFDA 15.608) program provides $115,000 to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR) to expand an existing stationary acoustic telemetry array to track invasive carp in the Mississippi River. The project will install up to 60 additional acoustic telemetry receivers in Pools 5A-12 of the Mississippi River, allowing the MN DNR and partner agencies...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $326,874 National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) project grant to the City of Forest City, Iowa. The funding will be used to remove a 3-foot high low-head dam in Pammel Park along the Winnebago River and construct two rock cross vanes to facilitate fish passage. This project will reconnect 99 upstream miles of the river's mainstem into southern Minnesota, improving upstream passage for channel catfish, northern pike, yellow perch, and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species program (CFDA 15.608) provides $599,701 to American Rivers Inc. to conduct data collection, hydraulic and sediment transport modeling, and a geomorphic assessment of Battle Creek in California. The primary goal is to identify options and make recommendations for the upgrade or replacement of the Coleman National Fish Hatchery's (CNFH) water intake #2. This work will...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $6,750,000 Cooperative Agreement (Award ID: R25AC00292) on January 17, 2025 to the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580). The funding will enable ODFW to study, design, and construct fish screens at unscreened diversion points along the Klamath River in Oregon. This effort supports the removal of the lower four Klamath River dams by Fall 2024, which...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) will fund the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) to collect sediment core samples and conduct probing transects upstream of the Allegan City Dam along the Kalamazoo River. The data collected will characterize the sediments down to pre-dam historic riverbed levels, which...

The Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) of Maine has received a $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to construct a new state-of-the-art fish lift at the Woodland Hydroelectric Project. This project aims to significantly improve access to over 600 miles of historic sea-run fish habitat and 60,000 acres of alewife habitat by modernizing the outdated 1960s-era fish passage at this...

This Project Grant award of $500,000.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580) supports an assessment and design effort to address capacity constraints in the water supply system serving the Salmon Conservation and Research Facility (SCARF) in California. The key activities and deliverables include: 1) assessing the existing water supply system to identify capacity constraints, 2) conducting a field...

This Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $6,433,628.00 to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to enhance aquatic connectivity in the Otter Tail River watershed. The project will replace two undersized culverts at a major highway river crossing with two span bridges to restore fish passage and enable movements between 42,000 acres of regional lake-chain habitats....