Department Of Water Resources Oregon

Department Of Water Resources Oregon is a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Salem that acts as a federal grant recipient and occasional contract vendor for water resource management, dam safety, and hydrologic monitoring work, with 99% of its recent federal footprint concentrated in grant awards rather than contracts.

The vendor's federal customer base centers on two agencies: the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (18 awards, $5.5 million combined potential value) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (13 grant awards under the National Dam Safety Program). USGS, BLM Oregon-Washington, and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 round out the active set, accounting for 62% of awards by count. The top five agencies' combined potential value totals about $5.6 million across contracts and grants, with FEMA's recurring National Dam Safety Program grants dominating the dollar share despite representing fewer awards than Reclamation's streamflow monitoring and basin water management work.

On the contract side, Department Of Water Resources Oregon holds six small-dollar purchase orders from the Bureau of Reclamation and regional offices, including a $1.052 million sole-source streamgauging contract awarded September 1, 2022 (renewed through August 31, 2027) for monitoring streamflow and irrigation diversions across Oregon's Malheur, Burnt, Powder, and Crooked River basins; a $1.469 million Umatilla Basin Water Monitoring Program contract performing identical work through August 31, 2027; and a $192,862 Crooked River streamgauging station installation and maintenance contract completing May 31, 2026. These awards recognize the vendor's unique authority to enforce Oregon water laws and access to proprietary water data management systems. Five smaller Purchase Orders (total value under $2 thousand) address water rights billing and permit renewals for Oregon-Washington Regional offices.

The grant footprint is heavier. FEMA has awarded the vendor approximately $6.8 million across multiple National Dam Safety Program project grants since 2022, including a $5.537 million rehabilitation-of-high-hazard-dams award (September 20, 2024, through September 19, 2027) and recurring project grants of $107 thousand to $210 thousand annually for dam inspections, emergency action plan development, and infrastructure improvements. USGS funded two cooperative agreements ($15,168 total across both awards, FY2023–FY2027) for maintaining the vendor's role as a National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) data provider, with obligations to keep monitoring-location metadata current and ensure web services continue delivering data to the NGWMN portal. In its one sub-recipient role, Department Of Water Resources Oregon received $205 thousand in July 2025 from the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for fish passage alternative development and feasibility studies at Keno Dam in the Upper Klamath Basin.

Activity volume declined over the past five years (five awards in 2022 to two in 2026), with five awards completing in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $2.5 million). SCI-reported invoicing peaked in FY2022 at $576 thousand across 4.6 FTEs, declined to $383 thousand and 2.4 FTEs in FY2023, and shows zero recorded invoicing in FY2024 and FY2025 — indicating either contract completion or non-SCI-reportable work status. Government-paid rates on SCI-captured contracts ran a median of $62.24 per hour, with a 10th percentile of $60.37 per hour and 90th percentile of $88.98 per hour. The vendor performed all work with its own staff; no subcontractors appear in the SCI dataset.