Project Grant R22AP00047

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

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...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded Reclamation District 108 a $1,145,949 Project Grant under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to improve access to and use of water resource data and enhance modeling capabilities to inform regional groundwater recharge and conjunctive use programs in Colusa County, California. The project will expand the existing groundwater monitoring network, automate the collection of water meter readings, and store the data in a water information system. This...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $575,089.48 Cooperative Agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) to Natural Ocean Well CO. on March 19, 2024. The project proposes to install and evaluate a submerged water filtration system in the Las Virgenes Reservoir. Submerged water filtration is an unconventional approach that can reduce energy requirements by leveraging natural hydrostatic pressure, while also protecting the system from atmospheric climate...

The Carmichael Water District was awarded a $4.5 million project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514). The grant will fund construction of a new Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) well to enhance the District's conjunctive use program and build long-term drought resiliency. The ASR well is expected to provide an average annual benefit of 605 acre-feet of additional groundwater recharge and...

The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $298,114 Cooperative Agreement to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) to support the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) program (CFDA 15.980) from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, NCDEQ will: Provide persistent data services for two years to ensure NCDEQ's water-level and water quality network data continues to flow to the NGWMN data portal and that site...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, through the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.507), awarded the El Dorado Irrigation District in Placerville, California a $248,227.35 project grant to upgrade three wholesale water meters with automated meter read (AMR) technology. This project will enable the district to conserve water and improve overall data collection and analysis of water consumption, providing...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $401,282 Project Grant to Oklahoma State University (OSU) under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to generate agricultural groundwater withdrawal data across the Upper Red River Basin. The key objectives are to: (1) estimate the number of active irrigation wells, (2) provide annual high-resolution remote sensing observations of groundwater storage, and (3) apply a spatial water balance approach to estimate...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,224,295 project grant to the Desert Water Agency, a local government entity in southern California. This grant, funded through the Bureau's WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507), will support the final phase of the agency's Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) installation project. Specifically, the grant will enable the Desert Water Agency to equip the remaining 205 meters...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, through its WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) federal grant program (CFDA 15.507), awarded a $843,093 project grant to the Monte Vista Water District in San Bernardino County, California. The funding will be used to replace 1,400 manually read water meters with advanced metering infrastructure. This project is expected to result in annual water savings of approximately 262 acre-feet by providing real-time...