Ventura County Watershed Protection District

Ventura County Watershed Protection District, a U.S. local government entity and county agency based in Ventura, California, acts as a federal grant recipient and sub-recipient in watershed planning, environmental assessment, and flood recovery programs, with no federal contract prime or sub activity in the source data.

The District's federal footprint is exclusively grant-based and heavily weighted toward sub-recipient work — five of seven total awards (71%) are sub-awards routed through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Office of Emergency Services, while two awards (29%) position the District as a prime recipient under the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service. The combined value across all awards is $10.9 million obligated across two distinct federal customer agencies. The top customers by award count are FEMA (four awards) and NRCS (two awards), representing 86% of the District's recent activity.

The District's prime recipient work centers on watershed planning and environmental compliance. A $1.721857 million Cooperative Agreement awarded by NRCS on September 8, 2025, under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention program (CFDA 10.904) funds development of a comprehensive Watershed Plan and Environmental Assessment for the Ventura River Watershed, with completion targeted for March 31, 2028. An earlier NRCS Cooperative Agreement awarded September 10, 2024, provided technical and financial assistance for the Ventura County Emergency Watershed Protection (EWPP) Project 5227 recovery measures, with a completion date of November 1, 2025.

In its sub-recipient capacity, the District receives pass-through funding from the Office of Emergency Services for flood infrastructure and emergency response work. Named sub-awards include a floodwall and levee protection project in North Oxnard (January 23, 2023) designed to address 1% annual-chance flood events and comply with FEMA freeboard requirements; debris removal at Matilija Dam access roads and Conejo Creek levee road (June 2, 2025); improvements to the ALERT2 flood warning system coverage (May 15, 2026); and Basolo Ditch work (August 25, 2025). Activity has remained sparse — one award in 2019, one in 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 — with only a single award (from the FEMA cluster) approaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.