The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $704,457 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the Lower Loup Natural Resources District (LLNRD) in Ord, Nebraska. The funding will support the development of a cost-share program for local landowners and irrigators to install 200 flow meters on irrigation wells. Additionally, the grant will cover the installation of two solar-powered weather stations in areas of severe drought concern...
The Bureau of Reclamation, through its WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507), awarded a $2,085,775 Project Grant to the Upper Republican Natural Resources District in Southwestern Nebraska. The grant funding will be used to install 2,000 digital meter heads and transceivers at irrigation wells to transmit real-time water usage and crop evapotranspiration data via a radio network. This system will allow irrigators to actively manage their water...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $8,665,997 Project Grant to the Lower Republican Natural Resources District (Lrnrd) under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.507). The grant, with a project period from December 31, 2024 to March 31, 2028, will fund the installation of 1,800 irrigation flow meters with telemetry and weather stations across Lrnrd's district in southern Nebraska. These advanced...
The Federal Project Grant award R24AP00710, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507), will fund the installation of telemetry-enabled irrigation flow meters at 100 wells in central Nebraska. This $591,510 grant, awarded on December 20, 2024, will enable the Central Platte Natural Resources District (Central Platte NRD) to autonomously measure, report, and analyze...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, through the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) grant program (CFDA 15.507), awarded $221,043.90 to the Greenferry Water and Sewer District in Northern Idaho on Sep 13, 2024. The funding will be used to upgrade 98 manually read water meters with new meters equipped with advanced meter reading technology. This project will enhance the district's operational efficiency, improve leak detection, reduce water...
The Middle Republican Natural Resources District, a U.S. local government entity in Nebraska, has received a $2,690,799 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507). This funding will be used to install near real-time telemetry equipment on 691 irrigation flow meters, which is expected to result in annual water savings of 2,610 acre-feet. The conserved water will remain...
The Lower Republican Natural Resources District in Nebraska will install telemetry equipment on 1,057 irrigation flow meters and other water management sensors, as well as eight solar-powered weather stations across the district, to improve on-farm water management and reporting through real-time water use data collection and broadcasting under a $4,360,858 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation. Funded through Reclamation's WaterSMART program, the project aims...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $724,425 WaterSMART Program (CFDA 15.507) project grant to the Central Platte Natural Resources District in Nebraska. The grant funding will be used to replace 11 existing manual irrigation canal headgates with automated turnout gates and install 2 additional automated turnout gates. This project is expected to result in annual water savings of 5,140 acre-feet by improving operational efficiency and reducing losses from...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $244,347.78 Project Grant to the City of Las Animas, located in southeastern Colorado, under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507). The grant will fund the upgrade of 1,270 residential and commercial manually read water meters with new radio-read water meters. This project aims to improve the accuracy of water usage readings, reduce labor hours, and enhance the overall...
The Moapa Valley Water District received a $213,351 federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) on June 20, 2023. This grant will fund the District's project to upgrade 400 old and malfunctioning water meters with new Badger Meter 5/8" positive displacement disc meters and Orion cellular LTE-M data endpoints. The project also includes replacing 64 existing meter...