The City of Santa Monica received a $1,925,476 Project Grant award 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 city's efforts to accelerate planning and preliminary design for direct potable reuse (DPR) and indirect potable reuse (IPR) solutions to augment local water supplies. Specifically, the funding will be used to: 1) confirm feasible locations for groundwater recharge via direct injection and begin preliminary design of the injection wells, 2) map out a timeline, necessary infrastructure, costs, and agreements to implement a regional IPR project with the City of Los Angeles, 3) advance the DPR treatment train to achieve required log reduction values and confirm infrastructure upgrades, and 4) meet the feasibility study requirements of the Bureau of Reclamation's WaterSMART program. The project is estimated to take approximately 15 months, with planned completion by the end of 2024.
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