Project Grant MS15989

The Sutter Mutual Water Company will implement a series of upgrades to its water distribution system under a $2 million Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation's WaterSMART program. Funded through September 2025, the project aims to install automated gates and variable speed drives on motors to better control water flow and delivery. A new supervisory control and data acquisition system will also allow centralized monitoring and controls. These system improvements...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Bureau of Reclamation awarded Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County a Project Grant of $224,135.00 under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) on July 22, 2025. The district will install Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems at three potable water pump stations in Riverside, California, with completion targeted for December 31, 2027. The project includes implementation of...

The City of Highland, Utah will install 4,253 advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) meters and retrofit 250 existing meters with AMI capabilities under a $8.415 million Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation. The grant funding supports the City's project to implement AMI on unmetered pressurized irrigation connections and existing meters for residential, commercial, and institutional customers. The project aims to save an estimated 2,100 acre-feet of water...

This Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides $3,681,250 in funding to the City of Westminster, MD to implement an advanced water purification system project. The key activities include: demolition of existing facilities, construction of a new water purification facility with advanced filtration technologies (ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, UV disinfection, granular activated carbon),...

This $200,000 project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program will enhance Florida Department of Environmental Protection's data management capabilities for drinking water programs. The department will upgrade its Federal State Drinking Water Information System database and Compliance Monitoring Data Portal to streamline and modernize water quality data reporting for greater program effectiveness and compliance. Anticipated...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $575,089.48 Cooperative Agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) to Natural Ocean Well CO. on March 19, 2024. The project proposes to install and evaluate a submerged water filtration system in the Las Virgenes Reservoir. Submerged water filtration is an unconventional approach that can reduce energy requirements by leveraging natural hydrostatic pressure, while also protecting the system from atmospheric climate...

The City of Palo Alto was awarded a $58,196,269 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504). The purpose of the award is to construct an Advanced Water Purification System (AWPS) at the city's Regional Water Quality Control Plant. The AWPS will use membrane filtration and reverse osmosis to reduce total dissolved solids in the recycled water from 770-1,100 mg/L to 400-500...

The City of Soledad received a $2.8 million Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507), awarded on September 10, 2025. The grant funds the upgrade of approximately 3,500 non-Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) water meters to ultrasonic flowmeters equipped with AMI cellular technology (smart meters) throughout Soledad's municipal water system. The smart...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Wright State University received a $174,350 Project Grant award dated September 24, 2025, from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to design, procure, and install a comprehensive water treatment system for the Laboratory Animal Resources (LAR) vivarium in Dayton, Ohio. The deliverables include a water softening unit, reverse osmosis (RO) treatment system, 485-liter storage tank,...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service awarded a $7,499,000 Project Grant under the Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities program (CFDA 10.760) to the Lowcountry Regional Water System in Hampton, South Carolina. The award, made on March 19, 2025, will support critical water infrastructure improvements in the rural community, with a targeted completion date of March 19, 2027. The Lowcountry Regional Water System, a local government entity, will utilize the...