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WaterSMART Grants
Reclamation Regions
Lower Colorado Region
To manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American public.
Reclamation Mission
Overview
• Reclamation and NRCS Partnership
• WaterSMART Grants/Programs
• General Planning
For Release: June 23, 2016
The U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture today
announced more than $47 million in investments to help
water districts and producers on private working lands
better conserve water resources. The funds include $15
million in USDA funds and $32.6 million from the Bureau
of Reclamation for local projects to improve water and
energy efficiency and provide a strengthened federal
response to ongoing and potential drought across 13
states in the West.
BOR and NRCS
• Funding is available through WaterSMART for water
delivery system improvements that will enable farmers
to make additional on-farm improvements in the future,
including improvements that may be eligible for Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) funding.
BOR and NRCS
• NRCS
– Applicants may include individuals, legal entities, joint
operations or Indian tribes.
– 25% non-federal cost-shared funding on a competitive basis
• BOR
– States, Indian tribes, irrigation districts, water districts, and
other organizations with water or power delivery authority
– 50% non-federal cost-shared funding on a competitive basis
BOR and NRCS
WaterSMART ProgramSustain and Manage America’s Resources for
Tomorrow
• Working to achieve a sustainable water strategy to meet the Nation’s water needs
WaterSMART Program
Advanced Water Treatment, Pilot &
Demonstration Project Grants
Cooperative Watershed Management Grants
System Optimization Review Grants Drought Program
Title XVI – Water Recycling & Reuse
Program
Climate Analysis ToolsBasin Studies Program
Water & Energy Efficiency Grants
Demonstration Projects
West-wide Climate Risk Assessments
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
System Optimization Review Grants
• Analysis of system-wide
improvements for the
effectiveness and
operations of a delivery
system, district, or
watershed
• A report identifying specific improvements to increase efficiency, including a plan of action for implementing the recommendations
• Completing an SOR will help identify potential projects and develop the supporting documentation necessary to apply for Water and Energy Efficiency Grants under the WaterSMART Program.
System Optimization Review Grants
• The Harlingen Irrigation District in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas measured past water conservation improvements to prioritize future projects. The District assessed canal conveyance efficiency, application of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), automation, control structures, river and ancillary pumping, off-channel storage, and re-regulation of storage
• Providence City in Utah assessed improved management of irrigation water for the Blacksmith Fork River. The City will quantifed the amount of water to be conserved as a result of converting open canal to pipeline and the amount of water that could be better managed using a pressurized irrigation system
System Optimization Review Grants
• Projects that save water,
improve energy efficiency,
address endangered
species and other
environmental issues, and
facilitate transfers to new
use
Water and Energy Efficiency Grants
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and
Automation: Projects that install SCADA and/or automation
components that provide water savings when irrigation
delivery system operational efficiency is improved to reduce
spills, over-deliveries, and seepage. Projects include, but are
not limited to:
– Installing SCADA components that allow for remote monitoring of
irrigation delivery system conditions (flow rates, water elevations,
controls devices openings, etc.)
– Installing automation components that allow for remote operation of
delivery system control features (gates, valves, turnouts, etc.)
Water and Energy Efficiency Grants
• Canal Lining/Piping: Projects that line or pipe canals,
resulting in conserved water. Projects include, but are
not limited to:
– Installing new proven lining materials or technology
– Converting open canals to pipeline
– Constructing conveyance improvements, turnouts, pipelines, or
intertie systems
Water and Energy Efficiency Grants
• Irrigation Flow Measurement: Projects that improve
measurement accuracy and result in reduced spills and
over-deliveries to irrigators. Projects include, but are
not limited to:
– Installing weirs, flumes, ramps, etc. in open channels
– Installing meters in pressurized pipes
Water and Energy Efficiency Grants
• North Gila Valley Irrigation & Drainage District
(NGVIDD), AZ
– McPherson Lateral Lining Project• NGVIDD proposes enlarging a portion of the McPherson lateral which
provides water to 6,587 acres in the district. Currently the McPherson
lateral is 7,393 feet and the district is proposing concrete re-lining 2,210 of
the 7,393 feet with a larger cross-section. The lateral will be rebuilt with a
new pad increased to 40" and includes necessary gate and crossing work.
• Yuma Irrigation District (YID), AZ
– SCADA Installation
Water and Energy Efficiency Grants
• Yuma Irrigation District (YID), AZ
– Pump Upgrade• YID is installing new pumps at one of its five pumping stations. The District
will upgrade 2 pumps at the 16.4N pumping station.
• Unit B Irrigation & Drainage District, AZ
– Pipeline Replacement• Unit B will replace (2) 18 inch, leaking reinforced concrete/mortar pipelines
with 1,200 linear feet of (1) 30 inch PS-46 (PVC) pipeline.
Water and Energy Efficiency Grants
Drought Program
• Develop a drought contingency plan or to update an
existing plan
• Plans are required to include participation by multiple
stakeholders to address issues important to different
sectors (e.g., agricultural, municipal, and
environmental).
• Plans developed must include consideration of climate
change impacts to water supplies, in order to support
long term resiliency to climate change.
Drought Contingency Plan
• Drought resiliency projects increase water management
flexibility, making water supplies more resilient, and
thereby helping to prepare for and address the impacts
of drought and climate change.
• Proposals must demonstrate that the project is
supported by an existing drought planning effort.
Drought Resiliency Projects
Basin Studies Program• Collaborative studies to
evaluate impacts of
climate change and help
ensure water supplies by
addressing projected
imbalances between
supply and demand
• State-of-the-art projections of future supply and
demand by river basin, including the impacts of climate
change.
• An analysis of how the basin’s existing water and power
operations and infrastructure will perform in the face of
changing water realities.
• Development of adaptation and mitigation strategies to
meet current and future water demands.
• A trade-off analysis of the adaptation and mitigation
strategies identified.
Basin Studies Program
• Competitive program to allocate funds for BOR support
of Basin Study activities to match cash or in-kind
contributions from cost-share partners within the 3 year
period of the study.
• Eligible cost-share applicants are organizations with
water delivery or water management authority within a
watershed basin.
Basin Studies Program
• 2012 Colorado River Basin Study Completed
• Current Arizona Basin Studies
– West Salt River Valley Basin Study
– Lower Santa Cruz River Basin Study
Basin Studies Program
• Establish or enlarge a watershed group, plan and carry
out watershed management projects
• Announced June 27, 2016 funding for further
development of a cooperative watershed management
group
– Tse Si Ani Chapter: Working Across Tribal Borders: Restoring
the Black Mesa Watersheds Together
Cooperative Watershed Management Grants
• Projects designed to better manage water resources,
including tools to assess climate change impacts on
water resources
Climate Analysis Tools
Advanced Water Treatment Pilot and Demonstration Project Grants
• Projects that address technical,
economic and environmental
viability of treating brackish
groundwater, seawater, impaired
waters; or create new water
supplies
• Loving County in Texas received
funding in 2011 to study treating
brackish groundwater with wind
powered vapor compression
technology
Title XVI – Water Recycling and Reuse Program
• Planning, design, and construction of water recycling
and reuse projects
Water Conservation Demonstration Projects
• Demonstrate innovative technologies in water conservation to increase technical understanding of unfamiliar water management and conservation principles and practices that have not been previously used locally. A demonstration project's purpose is to install or apply a particular technology in a new way, or in a new setting, with the intent of reporting the results to others for potential wider adoption.
West-wide Climate Risk Assessments
• Provide a baseline assessment of climate change impacts to water supply and demand across the western states.
• Evaluate risks to water supplies related to changes in snowpack, timing and quantity of runoff, and changes in groundwater recharge and discharge.
• Evaluate risks to water supplies related to increase in the demand for water as a result of increasing temperatures and reservoir evaporation rates.
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
• The LCCs are partnerships of governmental and non-governmental entities
• The primary goal of the LCCsis to bring together science and resource management to inform climate adaptation strategies to address climate change and other stressors within an ecological region
• Arizona part of Southern Rockies LCC and Desert LCC
General Planning• Support ongoing water resource management activities and
new initiatives to address these challenges
• Apply planning techniques and technical expertise to help understand and deal with water supply and demand issues; build and sustain partnerships
• Resource investigation activities, including preliminary examinations of economic and technical solutions to water supply challenges, advanced scoping of studies approved for future-year funding, short-term unanticipated investigation activities and participation on interagency study teams.
http://www.usbr.gov/WaterSMART/
WaterSMART Program
Questions?Jessica Asbill-CaseWater Resources Program ManagerPhoenix Area Office
Email: jasbillcase@usbr.govPhone: 623-773-6273
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