Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency

Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, doing business as Scvwa, is a U.S. government entity (California water agency) that receives federal grants as a prime recipient for water infrastructure, conservation, and drought resilience projects, with no federal contract prime or subcontract activity. Scvwa operates exclusively under federal grant programs administered by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 9, focusing on regional water supply reliability and PFAS contamination remediation in the Santa Clarita Valley north of Los Angeles.

Scvwa's federal funding footprint is concentrated in two agencies. The Bureau of Reclamation has issued six prime grants totaling the majority of the agency's $46.3 million in combined obligations, spanning the WaterSMART program (CFDA 15.507), Applied Science Grants (CFDA 15.557), and congressionally mandated projects. The EPA Region 9 has issued two prime grants under the Congressionally Mandated Projects program (CFDA 66.202). Across these sources, Scvwa acts as prime recipient on seven of eight awards; one sub-award from the California State Water Resources Control Board (dated June 2025) represents the sole sub-recipient engagement in the source data.

Representative prime grant work includes the $7.82 million WaterSMART Automated Metering Infrastructure Phase II grant (Bureau of Reclamation, March 2025 through June 2028) to upgrade 32,163 meters with advanced metering technology across the region; a $7.24 million WaterSMART grant (February 2024) to implement water efficiency measures at 15 apartment complexes, including smart irrigation controllers, high-efficiency fixtures, and drought-tolerant landscaping conversion, targeting 579 acre-feet in annual water savings; a $2.7 million EPA Cooperative Agreement (October 2025 through June 2027) to design, procure, and construct a centralized ion-exchange PFAS treatment facility at the existing S7 well to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from groundwater; a $726,748 Bureau of Reclamation Applied Science grant (July 2024 through September 2026) to update the groundwater flow model for the Upper Santa Clara River Valley Groundwater Basin; and a $5.6 million Bureau of Reclamation grant (August 2022) to construct two recovery wells in Kern County for access to banked water during drought conditions. All grant awards are sub-award-free except the recent California State Water Resources Control Board sub-award focused on PFAS treatment for critical wells.

Activity has grown unevenly across the past four years—two awards in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, and three in 2025—with three awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (WaterSMART Phase I AMI replacement by June 2025, water efficiency measures by March 2026, and drought resilience wells by March 2026), triggering potential recompete or renewal cycles in that window. All awards support drought resilience, local water supply independence, and conservation in the Santa Clarita Valley region, with no commercial or business-development contract activity in the federal procurement system.