Project Grant R19AP00109

The City of San Buenaventura was awarded a $16,592,500 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 funding will enable the city to construct a 4.3-mile pipeline to connect to the Calleguas Municipal Water District and access the city's existing State Water Project allocation. This will improve the city's drought resiliency by providing approximately 5,400 acre-feet of water per...

The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District received a $41,401,172 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504). The funding will support the construction of an Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF) to treat tertiary effluent for indirect potable reuse, as well as pipelines to convey source water, purified water, and reverse osmosis concentrate. This project, known as the...

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California received a $32,942,618 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 grant funding will enable the construction of an intertie at the existing Foothill Pump Station along the Rialto Pipeline in East Highland, California. This project will allow the Metropolitan Water District to supplement water supplies in the Inland...

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...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504), will support the El Paso Water Utilities Public Service Board in conducting a feasibility study, alternatives analysis, preliminary design, environmental impact studies, and compliance analysis activities for a water reuse solution at the Upper Valley Water Treatment Plant. The key objectives of the project...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $5,918,760 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the Hidalgo County Irrigation District No. 2 in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. The grant will fund the construction of infrastructure and efficiency improvements to a feeder canal, discharge pipes, and a pumping plant. Key project elements include the installation of reinforced isolation bays on the...

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 Florida Consolidated Ditch Company, located in Durango, Colorado, was awarded a $4,649,853 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) federal grant program (CFDA 15.507). The grant will fund a project to convert 4.5 miles of open earthen irrigation lateral to a buried, pressurized high-density polyethylene pipeline, along with the construction of 24 irrigation turnouts, a reinforced...

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) grant program (CFDA 15.507) to the United Irrigation District in Hidalgo County, Texas. The grant funds the installation of 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...

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...