Project Grant NR233A750011G014

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded Semitropic Water Storage District Irrigation Water System Financing Corporation a $3 million Project Grant under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program. The grant will fund construction of a subsurface recharge facility including an earthen reservoir, filtration system, metered connection to record water deliveries, buried infiltration gallery of perforated and solid pipelines, and a dedicated monitoring system. The project aims to increase...

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $576,061 Project Grant under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to develop an integrated crop-soil-groundwater model to enhance understanding of nitrate transport and transformation in agricultural regions. The 3-year project (2025-2027) aims to integrate crop models for major crops like corn, soybean, and potato into a new modeling framework capable of simulating nitrate...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,400,000 Project Grant under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CFDA 15.512) to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). The 4-year grant, running from August 2024 to December 2028, will fund a study to quantify the full water budget and aquifer recharge for three different rice field management practices in California: growing rice, leaving fields fallow, and planting non-irrigated cover crops. The...

The Rancho California Water District was awarded a $43,900,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects program (CFDA 15.074). The grant will fund the Pauba Valley Groundwater Banking Project, which aims to leverage the district's 100,000 acre-feet of unused groundwater storage capacity to enhance long-term water supply reliability for the Lower Colorado River Basin. The key components of the...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $897,408 Project Grant to the Mojave Water Agency under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557). The funding supports a 5-year plan to identify surface water and groundwater recharge data gaps, prioritize opportunities for monitoring well installation and gaging stations, and provide recharge and runoff estimates for groundwater modeling in the Mojave Basin. Key project activities include conducting surface geophysical surveys, constructing monitoring...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,145,949 Project Grant under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to Reclamation District 108 in Colusa County, California. The grant funding will be used to improve access to and use of water resource data, as well as enhance modeling capabilities to inform regional groundwater recharge and conjunctive use programs. Specifically, the project will expand Dunnigan Water District's existing groundwater monitoring network and improve on-farm surface...

This $893,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) will support the Yolo Subbasin Groundwater Agency (YSGA) in developing strategies to reduce the impacts of future droughts in the Yolo Subbasin. The key activities to be performed include improving the YSGA's surface water-groundwater availability model, developing projects and demand management strategies to support groundwater sustainability,...

This $290,925 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to improve understanding of managed aquifer recharge (MAR) and its long-term impacts on water availability in California's Central Valley. The project employs a hybrid modeling approach integrating hydrologic models and machine learning to investigate three key hypotheses regarding optimal MAR locations, recharge efficiency, and the regional water balance effects....

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant to the Stockton East Water District in California to construct an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) well. The ASR well will enable the District to recharge water during heavy winter flows in the Calaveras River for later beneficial use during drought or water curtailments. This added production and recharge capacity will improve the management of the District's water supplies by increasing operational...

The San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District, in collaboration with California State University, Sacramento, received a $826,742 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation's Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557). The grant funding will be used to enhance the existing Integrated Santa Ana River Model, a combined groundwater and surface water model that is a foundational tool for water management in the Upper Santa Ana River Watershed and San...