Project Grant R15AP00167

Under this $4,598,053 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514), the Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District will construct the Caratan Groundwater Recharge Facility. The project will convert 160 acres in Delano, CA into recharge ponds, providing an additional average annual volume of approximately 5,560 acre-feet of groundwater. Key components include earthwork, levee...

The Orland-Artois Water District (OAWD) received a $6,983,535 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514). The award will fund the OAWD Infrastructure Expansion Implementation Project, which aims to deliver supplemental surface water supplies to approximately 4,000 acres of farmland within the Central Valley Project area in Glenn County, California. The project will reduce...

The San Benito County Water District (SBCWD) is implementing the Accelerated Drought Response Project (ADROP), the first phase of the North San Benito Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Project, under a $51,195,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's (USBR) Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects program (CFDA 15.074). ADROP will provide for the injection and storage of up to 2,700 acre-feet per year (AFY) of treated Central Valley Project water during wet...

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. 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 U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $351,057 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program to The Watershed Management Group, Inc. to develop a strategic plan to enhance groundwater recharge opportunities in the Lower Santa Cruz Watershed in Pima County, Arizona. This project will collaborate with Sky Island Alliance to survey springs, creeks, and arroyos, assess management needs, identify priority restoration...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504) provides $94,464,803.17 to the City of Pismo Beach to increase groundwater recharge and improve groundwater quality in the Central Coast Blue region. The funding will support the design, permitting, and construction of an Advanced Water Purification Facility, conveyance infrastructure, monitoring wells, and injection...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,060,000 Project Grant to the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency in Riverside County, California under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) federal grant program (CFDA 15.507). The funding will support the agency's efforts to investigate and design additional groundwater recharge ponds and supporting infrastructure to expand the region's water storage and recharge capacity. This project aligns...

This $2,684,222 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) will enable the Cawelo Water District in Bakersfield, CA to construct a 33-acre-foot reservoir and a 24-acre recharge facility. These infrastructure improvements will directly help increase access to groundwater supplies, providing an additional 3,466 acre-feet per year, which represents a 6.1% increase in the...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4,335,961 Project Grant under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to construct a water storage and delivery system in Portola Redwoods State Park, California. The project aims to improve water supply reliability for park visitors while decreasing summer diversions from Peters Creek, which will benefit endangered coho salmon and steelhead populations. Specifically, the grant will fund the...