The City of San Buenaventura (City) 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 funding will support 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 project aims to improve the City's drought resilience by providing an...
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...
The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $9,503,500 Project Grant under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514) to the City of Santa Rosa, Texas. The funding will support the installation of a 1-million-gallon ground storage tank, a 0.5-million-gallon elevated storage tank, a 7-day storage raw water reservoir at the city's water treatment plant, and an emergency interconnection with a neighboring water supplier. These infrastructure...
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...
The City of Big Bear Lake Department of Water and Power received a $5,038,552 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program. Funding will support construction of additional water storage infrastructure including a new reservoir, booster pump station, and conveyance pipelines. This aims to enhance the City's water supply resiliency by allowing storage of nearly 5.7 million gallons of its needed...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $390,370 project grant to the South Tahoe Public Utility District under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514). The project aims to optimize and enhance the district's existing water use data and technology by creating decision support tools to aid in the development of methodologies for implementing future water budgets for residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional water users....
The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District was awarded a $2,007,600 Project Grant under the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507). The grant funding will support the District's efforts to design improvements to convey local stormwater and imported water from the California Department of Water Resources State Water Project to a series of recharge basins in the City of San...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $20,935,318 Project Grant to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) under the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief program (CFDA 15.514). The grant will fund the construction of a stormwater capture project in Los Angeles, including a storm drain diversion, hydrodynamic separator, and subterranean infiltration gallery. This project is expected to add an estimated 136 acre-feet per year to local...
The City of West Sacramento received a $3,941,468 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) to construct the Well 22 Rehabilitation Project. This project will provide a dependable and long-term water supply to residents in the city's low-income north area during drought conditions and deliver an additional backup water supply for the entire city in the event the primary...
The San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District, in collaboration with California State University, Sacramento, received a $826,742 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation's Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557). The funding will be used to enhance the existing Integrated Santa Ana River Model, a groundwater and surface water model that is a foundational tool for water management in the upper Santa Ana River watershed and San Bernardino Basin....