Project Grant R18AP00235

This Project Grant award of $36,034,716.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program, effective October 1, 2024, supports a partnership between the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and a host transmission utility. The project aims to install an Automatic Power Factor Controller (APFC) device, the SmartValve, at an interregional tie to reduce tap changes and increase the control range of a Phase Shifting Transformer (PST)...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, through its WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) grant program (CFDA 15.507), awarded the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency (PVWMA) a $195,757 project grant (R25AP00224) to upgrade 49 manually read propeller meters with electromagnetic meters and remote read technology on high-production groundwater wells. The project aims to provide PVWMA's water system operators with real-time data on groundwater...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, through its WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507), awarded a $4,511,673 project grant to the Turlock Irrigation District (TID) located in California's Central Valley. The funding will enable TID's Civil Engineering Division to improve and automate five drop structures on the district's main canal. This project involves modifying the drop structures, installing new automated gates, and...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $211,051 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the La Feria Irrigation District #3 in Cameron County, Texas. The grant funds the installation of a solar-powered Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) telemetry system at 10 spillway sites to monitor water flow, manage discharges, and reduce water lost to operational spills. This technology...

The South Tahoe Public Utility District was awarded a $390,370 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514). The grant funding will be used to optimize and enhance the district's existing water use data and technology, creating decision support tools to aid in the development of future water budgets for residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional water users. This project aims...

The San Luis Water District in central California was awarded a $212,750 Project Grant from 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). The grant will fund the installation of water level monitoring instrumentation and programmable logic controllers at two canal locations in the district's irrigation system. This will allow the district staff to closely monitor canal levels and...

The Project Grant award R24AP00704 for $997,300.00, awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) grant program (CFDA 15.507), is funding a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) Improvement Project for the Fresno Irrigation District, a non-profit water management organization located in Fresno, California. The project aims to upgrade the district's water infrastructure technology and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202) provides $1,125,000.00 in funding to the City of Aurora, Colorado to implement a drinking water infrastructure construction project. The key activities to be performed include the installation of new 6-inch, 8-inch, or 12-inch pressure reducing valves and pre-cast or poured-in-place 6-ft diameter vault enclosures at 11 high-priority sites...

Under this Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART (CFDA 15.507) project grant award of $215,797, the Paloma Irrigation & Drainage District (PIDD), a U.S. state government entity, will install 3 automated, SCADA-controlled gates within the Gila Bend Main Canal as part of PIDD's irrigation delivery system in Gila Bend, Arizona. The project aims to modernize PIDD's aging infrastructure, optimize water delivery, and increase system efficiency and reliability to help conserve...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4,017,835 WaterSMART (CFDA 15.507) Project Grant to the Paloma Irrigation and Drainage District (PIDD) located in Maricopa County, Arizona. The grant will fund the replacement of 16 manually controlled jack lift gates and 24 manually controlled slide gates along Lateral D with new automated gates, as well as the installation of an automated solar-powered Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. This project is...