Project Grant R22AP00530
- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,191,586 WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) grant to the Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation District on September 6, 2023. This Project Grant will fund the lining of 2,500 feet of the earthen West Canal with a geomembrane liner covered by concrete to address seepage losses in central Washington. The project is expected to result in annual water savings of 728 acre-feet that...
- The Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation District (QCBID) received a $784,457 project grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation on September 8, 2021 to complete the project by June 30, 2022. The funding supports work under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America’s Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA #15.507), which aims to leverage federal dollars for projects that save water, increase renewable energy use, and accomplish other sustainability goals. Specifically, the...
- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Columbia Irrigation District in Kennewick, Washington, a $225,990.68 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) on September 4, 2024. The grant will fund the installation of a reinforced concrete liner in approximately 1,400 linear feet of the district's Lateral 2 canal. This project is expected to be completed by December 31, 2025. The concrete lining...
- The Kennewick Irrigation District was awarded a $6,041,290 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America’s Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA #15.507). The District will line approximately 36 miles of its main canal with high-density polyethylene geomembrane to reduce water losses from seepage. This project is expected to conserve 1,178 acre-feet of water annually that will allow the District to reduce diversions...
- The East Columbia Basin Irrigation District (ECBID) was awarded a $120,600 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Water Conservation Field Services Program (CFDA 15.530). The purpose of the grant is to support the preparation of a new comprehensive water conservation plan for the ECBID's Columbia Basin Project area, which is experiencing significant groundwater depletion and risks leaving many without a reliable water supply. The proposed project...
- The East Columbia Basin Irrigation District received a $1,284,657 Project Grant award from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) on October 25, 2023. The grant will fund the conversion of 24,483 feet of earthen irrigation canals to polyvinyl chloride pipelines. This infrastructure improvement project is expected to result in annual water savings of 290 acre-feet, which will be used to offset groundwater pumping and...
- The Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation District (QCBID) was awarded a $156,400 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) grant program (CFDA 15.507). The grant funding will support the installation of two automated and integrated flow measurement control gates at the headgate of the W39.9 lateral in central Washington. This automation will allow for near-instantaneous operational...
- The Grant County Conservation District, doing business as the Columbia Basin Conservation District, will use a $202,703 project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to create the Columbia Basin Groundwater Cooperative website. The primary objective of this 13-month project is to compile and make accessible existing groundwater data collected between 1998-2014 that has become difficult to access. The Columbia Basin...
- The Kittitas Reclamation District will line 1,902 linear feet of the South Branch Canal in Kittitas County, Washington to conserve water that will be dedicated to instream flows in upper Yakima River tributaries. The conserved water will benefit critical habitat for threatened steelhead and bull trout under a $2.67 million project grant awarded on September 22, 2022 by the Bureau of Reclamation through its WaterSMART Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow (WaterSMART) program...
- The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement (YRBWE) program (CFDA 15.531) to the Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District (SVID) to construct a 500-600 acre-foot reservoir along the Sunnyside Canal in Washington. The project involves developing an earth embankment reservoir with an automated pump station, controls, and infrastructure to improve water management and supplement instream flows for anadromous fish. Key project...
THE QUINCY COLUMBIA BASIN IRRIGATION DISTRICT, LOCATED IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON, WILL LINE 2,500 FEETOF THE EARTHEN WEST CANAL WITH A HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE GEOTEXTILE LINER THE PROJECTADVANCES THE GOALS OF A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING MOU BETWEEN THE THREE COLUMBIABASIN PROJECT IRRIGATION DISTRICTS, THE WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY, THE WASHINGTONSTATE DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE, AND THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION TO ADDRESS REGIONAL WATERRELIABILITY CONCERNS INCLUDING DROUGHT, GROUNDWATER ISSUES, AND IMPROVED STREAM FLOWS TO ASSISTSALMON RECOVERY THE PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN ANNUAL WATER SAVINGS OF 849 ACRE FEET THATIS CURRENTLY LOST TO SEEPAGE THE WATER CONSERVED WILL BE USED TO MEET ACTIONS IDENTIFIED IN THEMOU, INCLUDING OFFSETTING GROUNDWATER PUMPING AND MAINTAINING FLOWS IN THE COLUMBIA RIVER
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 8/27/24 | ||
| Not listed | $300.0k | 9/13/22 |