Carmichael Water District

Carmichael Water District, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Carmichael, California, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering drinking water infrastructure construction and water conservation programs to the Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 and the Bureau of Reclamation. The district does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; its entire federal footprint comprises cooperative agreements and project grants under congressionally mandated water infrastructure and conservation programs.

The district's customer base is narrow and concentrated: the Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 (2 awards, cooperative agreements) and the Bureau of Reclamation (2 awards, project grants) account for four of five total federal awards, with a single sub-grant award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards division. Combined obligated federal dollars across all awards total $9.1 million, and activity is sparse — one award per calendar year from 2022 through 2026.

Carmichael Water District's recent prime grant work centers on drinking water infrastructure delivery. The EPA Region 9 awarded two cooperative agreements under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202): a $959 thousand award effective January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028, for construction of a replacement transmission pipeline along Garfield Avenue in Carmichael, and a $2.5 million award dated June 1, 2025, through December 31, 2027, for construction of an Aquifer Storage and Recovery well at the Ladera site with associated aboveground improvements and pumping station upgrades. The Bureau of Reclamation awarded two project grants for water supply resilience: a $2.0 million award dated August 11, 2022, through June 30, 2026, for ASR well construction to enhance the district's groundwater banking and conjunctive-use program, and a project grant dated June 13, 2023, with ultimate completion December 31, 2025, for a turf removal incentive program designed to reduce irrigation water demand through landscape conversion to drought-tolerant plants and mulch. The district acts as the direct grant recipient in all prime awards; no subawards are included across the cooperative agreements. In its subrecipient role, the district received a water utility damages sub-grant from the Office of Emergency Services (Federal Emergency Management Agency) dated February 7, 2024.

One award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, generating a single recompete opportunity for drinking water infrastructure or water conservation grant work with the Bureau of Reclamation or EPA Region 9.