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Westlands Water District announced they have been awarded a $1,609,000 Water and Energy Efficiency grant from the Bureau of Reclamation.
The grant is for the District’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project, which will retrofit 760 manually read groundwater well meters with advanced, automated metering devices that can transmit data over a regional network. The project is expected to save nearly 103 billion gallons of water and reduce 5.3 metric tons of carbon emission over 20 years.
“Westlands has always been a leader in agricultural water conservation and water use efficiency, and the District is grateful for Reclamation’s support to implement our Advanced Metering Infrastructure project,” said Tom Birmingham, Westlands general manager. “As part of our ongoing effort to improve climate resilience and mitigate drought impacts, Westlands is more committed than ever to maximizing every drop of water and reducing carbon emissions through innovative projects like this one.”
In addition to installing the new, advanced meters, the project will also establish a regional network that links all 932 advanced meters in the District and a database to store daily groundwater well information transmitted by the advanced meters.
Westlands anticipates that full project implementation will take approximately two years.
