Cooperative Agreement W9126G2120015

The University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center (UH WRRC) has been awarded a $650,185 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements (CFDA 15.560) program. The funding will support UH WRRC's technical work as part of the American Samoa Basin Study, which focuses on evaluating long-term water resource challenges on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Specifically, UH WRRC will develop a detailed groundwater model to simulate...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides $2,600,000 to the County of Hawaii Water Supply Department to develop a new deep water well in the North Kona region. The project aims to reduce dependency on the aging, energy-intensive basal aquifer and meet increasing water demands in the area. Key activities include clearing and preparing land, drilling an initial borehole to access the...

This $178,404 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) aims to determine the role of groundwater in regulating streamflow response to hydrologic extremes across a gradient of groundwater storage. The project will integrate high-resolution field observations of stream discharge, source, and age with a process-based hydrologic model to simulate groundwater-surface water interactions under various future hydrologic conditions. Study...

This $299,920 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund a research fellowship at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) to develop a state-of-the-art modeling framework for understanding and predicting saltwater intrusion in Hawaii's coastal aquifers. The project will engage an assistant professor and a graduate student in collaboration with researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The goal is...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $303,703 to develop a novel approach for characterizing hydrostratigraphy using water level data collected from multi-level monitoring wells. The University of Iowa will collect water level measurements every 10 seconds from 10 to 15 depths in monitoring wells located at a contaminated groundwater site. Analyzing the response of water levels to rainfall and pumping changes will help delineate the...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District (GCD) in Texas. The purpose of the grant is to develop a local-scale groundwater availability and flow model to improve the GCD's ability to accurately predict the impacts of groundwater production, both within the district and regionally, on local groundwater levels and water quality. The model will enable the GCD and its...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560), will examine the influence of whole valley-floor restoration on late summer baseflows in Meadow Creek, Oregon. The $116,505 award, effective August 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, will use two complementary approaches: Developing a surface flow model (HEC-RAS-2D) linked with a groundwater flow model (FLOPY) to simulate pre-...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides $959,757.00 in federal funding to the Board of Water Supply to replace 3,900 linear feet of aging potable waterline infrastructure in the Kahilinai Place and Aiea Heights Drive area in Hawaii. The project aims to reduce water service disruptions, improve system reliability, and extend the life of the water system infrastructure in this area...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides funding to the City and County of Honolulu Environmental Services to conduct a planning and feasibility study for a central O'ahu water recycling facilities project in Mililani, Hawaii. The key activities to be performed include gathering information, identifying treatment technologies and site planning, determining recycled...

The University of Massachusetts, through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, was awarded a $498,999.38 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805). This 3-year project aims to improve understanding of how climate variability is impacting subsurface water storage and hydrological processes in the Northeastern United States. Key deliverables include: 1) analysis of historical water...