Project Grant R14AP00140

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...

The Yuba County Water Agency and Browns Valley Irrigation District will convert 9.3 miles of open ditch to 9.6 miles of pipeline under a $4,011,154 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation's WaterSMART program. The existing Sicard Flat Ditch is constructed directly in blasted rock, making it porous and prone to leaks. The project is expected to result in annual water savings of 2,880 acre-feet currently lost to seepage, which will be stored in Collins Lake...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Oregon State University received a $116,505 project grant from the Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act – Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560), awarded August 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2026. The project examines the influence of whole valley-floor restoration on late summer baseflows in Meadow Creek, Oregon, utilizing two complementary methodologies. The first approach employs integrated surface and groundwater flow...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Bureau of Reclamation awarded $297,712 to Solano County Water Agency (SCWA) on May 16, 2025, under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to support watershed restoration and erosion mitigation efforts in the Putah Creek watershed located in northern California. The project, with a completion date of September 30, 2028, focuses on three contiguous sub-watersheds totaling 69 square miles, including the seven-mile inter-dam reach...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,188,663 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.507) to Chelan County, Washington to complete the study and design of a comprehensive restoration project for Peshastin Creek. The project will relocate and reconnect the creek channel with its historic floodplain and construct two highway bridges across the rerouted waterway. Key project...

This Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.664 - Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance) provides $400,000 to the Siskiyou County Farm Bureau to design and obtain permits for a pipeline that would allow water from the Montague Water Conservation District to be delivered to the Big Springs Irrigation District. This project aims to reduce groundwater and surface water pumping near Big Springs Creek, thereby increasing flows in the...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Chelan County Natural Resource Department a $629,606.85 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to restore wet meadow hydrology and floodplain connectivity in the 1,300-acre Camas Meadows in Washington state. The project aims to address incision and drainage issues that have degraded this critical natural water storage feature, which is located in the flow-limited Peshastin sub-basin of...

This $2,018,051 federal Project Grant award, funded by 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), will support the Sage Creek Watershed Restoration for Drought Resilience and Sediment Control project. Key activities include: 1) construction of 50 new beaver dam analogs, expansion of 20 existing beaver dam analogs, and material supplements to 15 naturally occurring beaver dams on 2...

The Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District, in partnership with the Middle Deschutes Watershed Council, will receive $263,564 from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to remove western juniper trees from 460 acres of upland habitat surrounding Willow Creek in Oregon. This project aims to restore water connectivity between upland and in-stream habitats by removing juniper that has caused flows in...

The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Yurok Tribe a $1,020,849 Project Grant under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519) to mitigate drought impacts and restore salmon habitat in the Klamath Basin. The grant provides funding for the following activities over a period from September 2024 to May 2027: McGarvey Creek Restoration Tribal Stewardship: 2 years of tribal stewardship, installation of 20 Constructed...