Project Grant R16AP00143

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 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 San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District received a $2,707,038 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) to implement the Cactus Basins Connector Pipeline Project. This project will connect the Cactus Basins to the State Water Project, allowing for up to an additional 6,904 acre-feet per year of groundwater recharge in the severely depleted groundwater basin. The project...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504) to the Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) of Riverside County, California. The grant will support a comprehensive water reuse feasibility study aimed at bolstering local groundwater supplies and fortifying regional water supply reliability in the drought-prone Southern California region. The study will take a holistic approach to examining the water reuse...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504) provides $45,879,420.66 in funding to the Carpinteria Valley Water District for the construction of a 1.0 million gallons per day (MGD) advanced water purification facility (AWPF). The project will treat wastewater effluent from the Carpinteria Sanitary District Wastewater Treatment Plant and produce recycled water to recharge the local Carpinteria...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $32,942,618 Project Grant under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) to The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD). The grant will enable MWD to construct an intertie at the existing Foothill Pump Station along the Rialto Pipeline in East Highland, California. This project will allow MWD to provide water from the Colorado River Aqueduct and Colorado River Water Storage at...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $8,487,181 Project Grant under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) to the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District (SWID) in Kern County, California. The funding will be used to construct a 112-acre groundwater recharge facility that will store uncontrolled flood water from the Kern River and the Central Valley Project for later beneficial use during dry years. This project will directly help improve...

The Goleta Water District, a U.S. local government entity serving the Goleta Valley region in California, received a $6,291,307 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation's Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514). The grant funding will enable the District to design and construct advanced groundwater treatment systems at its Airport Well to remove contaminants such as 1,4-dioxane and PFAS. This will restore the well's capacity to...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504) to the Mesa Water District in California. The purpose of the grant is to conduct a feasibility study to evaluate alternative groundwater well locations, assess impacts of seawater intrusion, identify infrastructure needs, and analyze treatment options for a brackish groundwater desalination facility. The study aims to determine the feasibility of...

The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District received a $404,731 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504). The grant funds will support a new Title XVI Bunker Hill Basin Regional Recycled Water Salinity Management Feasibility Study. This initiative aims to facilitate the permitting of three recycled water projects and evaluate feasible salinity management strategies in...