The City of San Buenaventura, California, was awarded a $16,592,500 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). The grant will fund the construction of a 4.3-mile pipeline to connect the city to the Calleguas Municipal Water District, enabling access to the city's existing State Water Project allocation. This will improve the city's drought resilience by providing an additional 5,400...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California a $32,942,618 Project Grant under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA #15.514) to construct an intertie at the Foothill Pump Station along the Rialto Pipeline in East Highland, California. This project will enable the Metropolitan Water District to provide water from the Colorado River Aqueduct and Colorado River Water Storage at Diamond Valley Lake...
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...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504) provides $45,879,420.66 in funding to the Carpinteria Valley Water District for the construction of a 1.0 million gallons per day (MGD) advanced water purification facility (AWPF). The project will treat wastewater effluent from the Carpinteria Sanitary District Wastewater Treatment Plant and produce recycled water to recharge the local Carpinteria...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Porterville Irrigation District (District) a $923,033 Project Grant under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514). Through this funding, the District will construct a surface water distribution system to serve 675 acres in its service area that currently only has access to groundwater. The project includes building a pipeline along Road 196 to connect the Lower Tule River Irrigation District 4...
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...
The City of San Buenaventura was awarded a $363,249,257 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Recycling and Desalination Construction Programs (CFDA 15.504). The grant will fund the design and construction of the VenturaPure program, which aims to augment the city's potable water supplies with up to 3,600 acre-feet per year of purified recycled water. Key components of the project include: Designing an advanced water purification...
This $2,684,222 federal 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) will support the construction of a 33-acre-foot capacity reservoir, a 24-acre recharge facility, and an interconnecting pipeline in Bakersfield, CA. These infrastructure improvements will directly increase access to groundwater supplies by providing an additional 3,466-acre feet per year, representing a 6.1%...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, through the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514), awarded a $4,384,344 project grant to the Pixley Irrigation District in California to construct 5.5 miles of new canals as part of the Lateral 4 Expansion Project. This infrastructure project will allow the district to recharge groundwater and deliver surface water, reducing reliance on overdrafted groundwater in the region. The project is expected to...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,155,168 Project Grant under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) to the Trabuco Canyon Water District in California. The grant will fund the Dove and Tick Creek Pump Station Improvements Drought Resiliency Project, which aims to upgrade the district's pump stations to increase capture of dry weather runoff and stormwater. The project will produce 200 acre-feet per year of new non-potable...