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 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...
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 Merced Irrigation District in Merced County, California will receive $3,289,755 under a Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation's Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) to improve drought monitoring and water management models and equipment. Specifically, the District will enhance real-time operational modeling to track water supply conditions, install water measurement monitoring equipment to accurately track supply and snow/snow...
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 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 $10,339,634 project grant to the Turlock Irrigation District (TID) in California. The funding will support the installation of a 4,000 kW floating solar photovoltaic energy generation system on the Lateral 8 Regulating Reservoir. The solar facility is expected to generate over 8.7 million kWh annually, powering...
The Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District (SWID) in Kern County, California was awarded a $8,487,181 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 funding will support the construction of a 112-acre groundwater recharge facility that will store uncontrolled flood water from the Kern River and the Central Valley Project for later beneficial use to offset water shortages during dry...
The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $43,074,644 Cooperative Agreement under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) to the Patterson Irrigation District (PID) in Patterson, California. The purpose of this award is to expand the conveyance capacity of PID's water infrastructure connecting the San Joaquin River to the Delta-Mendota Canal, increasing the capacity from 35 CFS to 195 CFS. This project will enhance the flexibility of water deliveries, improve drought...
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...
The Arvin-Edison Water Storage District (the District) was awarded a $4,160,421 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514). The funding will be used to construct two drought recovery wells and develop a conjunctive use modeling tool to improve management of the District's water supplies through informed operational decision-making. This will increase operational flexibilities and...