Project Grant R19AP00048

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...

This $483,305 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of innovative control and estimation approaches for smart water management systems at the University of California, San Diego through July 2025. Specifically, the grantee will work to quantify distributed sediment profiles in water channels using measurements from gate locations, and develop flow control strategies using continuum models of density gradients induced by moving sediment. An experimental setup will...

The Stockton East Water District in California received a $2,046,465 federal Project Grant award 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) to construct a flow measurement flume and pipe 777 feet of an earthen canal. This project is expected to result in annual water savings of 10,865 acre-feet, which will be stored in the New Melones Reservoir to address water shortages...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4,765,371.00 Project Grant to the Lower Tule River Irrigation District and Pixley Irrigation District in central California under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507). The grant will fund the installation of 742 automated magnetic smart meters along 320 miles of open canals within the two districts. This project is expected to result in annual water savings of 10,621...

The Columbia Irrigation District in Kennewick, Washington was awarded a $151,730.73 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA No. 15.507). The funding will support the installation of four automated integrated flow measurement gates on Canal 2 and integrate them into the district's existing supervisory control and data acquisition system. This project aims to automate the...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1.7M Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the United Irrigation District in Hidalgo County, Texas. The funding will be used to install seven flow control and metering gates and four flow control gates on the Bryan Canal, which provides water to the cities of Mission and McAllen, Texas, and the Sharyland Water Corporation, serving a population of...

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...

This $4,105,000 Project Grant award, provided 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 fund the West Cache Canal Telemetry and Automation Upgrade Project. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: 1) installing telemetry, control, and measuring devices at key points along the West Cache Canal, 2) replacing all existing manual spillway...

The Moulton Niguel Water District in Southern California received a $1,012,996 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to replace 2,850 existing water meters with low resolution ultrasonic meters that are compatible with advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). The project is expected to result in annual water savings of 1,735 acre-feet by detecting and reducing...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $15,000,000 cooperative agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements (CFDA 15.560) program to the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority in California. The 5-year pilot project aims to identify viable solutions for enabling the nation's canals to serve the dual purpose of traditional water conveyance and renewable energy generation, thereby reducing carbon emissions and building climate change resilience. Key project goals include...