Project Grant R21AP10421

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 U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $884,600 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the Hallwood Irrigation Company, a non-profit organization based in Marysville, California. The grant funding will support Flow Control Automation Upgrades to the organization's water infrastructure and management systems. Key objectives include minimizing water loss, improving water diversion...

This $403,680 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to improve streamflow monitoring and forecasting methods. The University of Iowa will enhance protocols for continuously monitoring streamflows to more accurately capture effects of flood wave propagation and seasonal riparian vegetation changes. Researchers will integrate direct measurements with numerical models to enable real-time estimation and forecasting of streamflow...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Bureau of Reclamation awarded Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County a Project Grant of $224,135.00 under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) on July 22, 2025. The district will install Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems at three potable water pump stations in Riverside, California, with completion targeted for December 31, 2027. The project includes implementation of...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded $220,551.29 to Powder Mountain Water & Sewer Improvement District through the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) on July 15, 2025, to install five electromagnetic meters and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) capabilities along the district's main culinary water distribution system in Ogden, Utah. The project is scheduled for completion by September 30, 2026. The meters and SCADA...

The Bureau of Reclamation, under its Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557), awarded a $783,962 project grant to Water District 63 in Idaho to expand water data monitoring and collection within the Boise River basin. The project aims to improve water management and avoid shortages by providing real-time access to drain monitoring data and developing hydrologic modeling capabilities. This will inform infrastructure and operational changes needed to support sustainable water delivery in...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $249,990 Cooperative Agreement under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to the University of Oklahoma's Office of Research Administration. This 3-year project will operationalize two fixed-mount, laser scanning (LIDAR) instruments to measure cross-sectional channel geometry in shallow rivers with frequently changing geomorphologies. The data collected will be integrated into USGS workflows to produce real-time, stage-area...

The Lower Republican Natural Resources District in Nebraska will install telemetry equipment on 1,057 irrigation flow meters and other water management sensors, as well as eight solar-powered weather stations across the district, to improve on-farm water management and reporting through real-time water use data collection and broadcasting under a $4,360,858 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation. Funded through Reclamation's WaterSMART program, the project aims...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $228,663.78 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the Ogden River Water Users Association in Weber County, Utah. The grant will fund the installation of remote flow and level monitoring instruments and telemetry units at several critical locations along the Ogden-Brigham Canal and South Ogden Highline Canal, including a key monitoring site below...

The City of Highland, Utah will install 4,253 advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) meters and retrofit 250 existing meters with AMI capabilities under a $8.415 million Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation. The grant funding supports the City's project to implement AMI on unmetered pressurized irrigation connections and existing meters for residential, commercial, and institutional customers. The project aims to save an estimated 2,100 acre-feet of water...