This Project Grant award from 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) provides $489,454 to the Nez Perce Soil And Water Conservation District to improve anadromous fish habitat for federally listed steelhead trout in the Tom Beall Creek watershed, a tributary to Lapwai Creek in northern Idaho. The key activities include removing an existing box culvert that prohibits upstream fish...
This federal Project Grant award from 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) provides $3,010,164.07 to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation to improve anadromous fish habitat and passage in the lower Yakima River in central Washington. Key project activities include constructing 1,400 linear feet of cold-water habitat channel, restoring 20 acres of riparian...
The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $3,809,147.32 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the Wood River Land Trust Company to enhance and improve the ecological function of the 65-acre Warm Spring Preserve in Blaine County, Idaho. The project will restore 1.3 miles of Warm Springs Creek through instream earthwork to create pools, point bars, and constructed riffles, as well as install woody debris structures to promote...
The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $839,000 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the Board of Control for the Triangle Irrigation District and Wood River Valley Irrigation District #45, a U.S. local government entity. The grant will fund a project to improve a diversion dam on the Big Wood River in Bellevue, Idaho. The project will add fish passage and sediment passage structures to the...
The Fremont Madison Irrigation District (the District) received a $201,777 Project Grant award 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 will fund the automation of six water control structures and the installation of remote operation and data collection equipment in the District's irrigation system located in eastern Idaho. This project will enable the...
The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4,013,207.73 WaterSMART (CFDA 15.507) grant to the Deschutes Land Trust to restore 124 acres of aquatic, floodplain, and upland habitat at the Ochoco Preserve in Crook County, Oregon. The project aims to create over 2 miles of new main baseflow stream channels, 1.5 miles of side channels, and over 11 acres of wetlands to support reintroduced Spring Chinook salmon and Summer steelhead populations. Additional planned restoration efforts include 37 acres of...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $2,917,668 Project Grant through the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation. The grant will fund a stream channel restoration project along Battle Creek Tributary in Franklin County, Idaho over the period from July 27, 2023 to December 31, 2025. The project will replace channelized sections of Battle Creek with natural stream meanders,...
This $224,767 Project Grant award from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program will fund the Headgate Automation and Irrigation Flow Measurement Projects for the Idaho Irrigation District in Bonneville County, Idaho. The key activities include automating three existing headgates, building and automating one additional headgate, adding five Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) measuring and logging stations to...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation's WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program, CFDA No. 15.507, provides $3,017,964.00 to the Kittitas Conservation Trust to implement an in-stream restoration project on River Mile 2-3 of Gold Creek in Kittitas County, Washington. The project aims to restore the geomorphology and increase the habitat complexity of Gold Creek by installing engineered log jam...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to the Upper Wood River Water Users Association, Inc. in Blaine County, Idaho. The grant funding will be used to line approximately one mile of an earthen bypass canal, which will conserve water by reducing seepage losses and improve water management, resulting in more reliable water deliveries. This...