Harvest water will serve up to 50,000 acre-feet per year (AFY) of recycled water produced from the echowater project to approximately 16,000 acres of agricultural and habitat lands in southern…

This $469,487,197 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation supports the Harvest Water project under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504). The project will serve up to 50,000 acre-feet per year of recycled water produced from the EchoWater Project to approximately 16,000 acres of agricultural and habitat lands in southern Sacramento County, including portions of unincorporated South Sacramento County and the Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Key deliverables include environmental documentation and permitting, engineering design services, and construction of a new recycled water transmission and distribution system including a pump station, 14 miles of transmission pipelines, and 25 miles of distribution mains. The project aims to provide two-thirds of the maximum monthly agricultural irrigation demand, with the remaining needs met by existing private wells.

Activities

Objective 1: contracts for administrative program managementobjective 2: contracts for environmental documentation and permitting servicesobjective 3: contracts support capital program management servicesobjective 4: contracts to prepare design plans and specificationsobjective 5: construct infrastructuredeliverable(s) expected outcome(s):- administrative program management office administration and support recycled water utility support landowner and stakeholder outreach and education environmental documentation and environmental permitting support groundwater accounting program groundwater monitoring ecological program technical support and oversight capital program coordination and regulatory strategy and advocacy support.- environmental consulting services through september 2026 to prepare project-level ceqa and nepa environmental documentation for program facilities not included in the original 2017 EIR, including associated environmental surveys. The contract also provides environmental permitting services.- engineering services through september 2026 associated with program management, project management, and establishing the basis of design for the programs pump station, 14 miles of transmission pipeline, 25 miles of distribution mains, and on-site connections.- contract for design of harvest water pump station contract for design of ELK grove transmission pipeline and franklin eschinger distribution pipeline projects contract for engineering design services for the harvest water central south distribution pipelines and west distribution pipelines contract for engineering design services for the harvest water on-farm and connections and assemblies.- construction of the program facilities through september 2026.beneficiary: the public