Project Grant R18AP00178

The City of Big Bear Lake Department of Water and Power received a $1,029,000 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 funding will enable the City to equip a new well pumping plant at Division Well No. 9, which will provide an additional 400 acre-feet water source to improve drought resiliency and increase water system operational efficiencies for the Bear Valley...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $2,748,947 Project Grant under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580) to the Blue River Watershed Group (BRWG) and the Town of Silverthorne. The funding will support the engineering and design of a project to repair degraded aquatic habitat in the Blue River downstream of the Dillon Reservoir in Colorado. The project aims to address issues such as low flows, below average water temperatures, and lack of sediment and nutrient transport caused...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Bureau of Reclamation awarded $394,859 to the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria on August 25, 2025, under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519). The project addresses critical erosion control and flooding issues affecting the tribe's 174-acre rancheria located in Humboldt County, California. Deliverables include engineering design services and installation of minor infrastructure projects to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA) to restore a road-stream crossing on Deer Creek. The project will replace a 7-foot diameter culvert with a 33-foot span timber bridge, reconnecting 5 miles of upstream channel to over 4 miles downstream. This will halt the annual input of up to 15 tons of sediment from road runoff entering Deer Creek, improving stream...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $359,919 WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Project Grant (CFDA 15.507) to the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed (CPRW) to design upgrades to the Whitney and Eaton diversion structures on the Poudre River in northern Colorado. The project aims to improve fish passage and restore a half-mile section of the river, which is currently disconnected from its floodplain. Once complete, the...

The Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) awarded $2.24M to the Walker River Paiute Tribe under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Program (CFDA 15.514) on July 28, 2025, for a domestic water supply infrastructure project on the Walker River Paiute Reservation in Nevada. The primary deliverable is the construction and installation of a 410,000-gallon water storage tank and an accompanying distribution piping system with hydrants designed to provide reliable water access to the reservation...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $30,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Water Storage Enhancement program (CFDA 15.574) to the Sites Project Authority on September 12, 2023. The purpose of the award is to fund activities to advance the development of the proposed Sites Reservoir project in California. Key products and services to be delivered include engineering design and conveyance design, geological and geotechnical studies, environmental planning and...

The Rogue Valley Council of Governments (RVCOG) received a $1,021,918.49 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) grant program (CFDA 15.507). The grant will fund RVCOG's efforts to restore natural channel hydrology and improve fish passage on Bear Creek, a tributary to the Rogue River, within the city of Medford, Oregon. The project will remove three existing barriers and install large...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded the City of Red Wing a $500,000 cooperative agreement effective July 1, 2025, through the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) to rehabilitate the existing 98-year-old ground reservoir serving the Sorin Bluff Reservoir in Red Wing, Minnesota. Under this agreement, the City will extend the reservoir's service life by an additional 20 years through comprehensive repair and...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $2,688,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) supports the County of Clayton, Georgia in implementing a flood mitigation project along Camp Creek. The key activities funded include channel and culvert improvements to increase floodplain connectivity and reconnect the active creek channel to an expanded bankfull bench. Specifically, the project will modify 1,655 linear feet of...