Seventeen more projects receive funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

The Department of the Interior has allocated a $36.1 million investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 17 projects in California. The selected projects will help bring clean, reliable drinking water through investments in innovative drought resilience efforts, such as groundwater storage, rainwater harvesting, aquifer recharge, water reuse, ion exchange treatment, and other methods to stretch existing water supplies.

“Drought resilience is more important now ever as the West is experiencing more severe and longer droughts,” said Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton. “This investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in locally-led projects will help solidify community’s water supplies and allow families and farmers to respond to the challenges posed by drought.”

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocates $8.3 billion for Reclamation water infrastructure projects over the next five years to advance drought resilience and expand access to clean water for families, farmers and wildlife. The investment will repair aging water delivery systems, secure dams, complete rural water projects, and protect aquatic ecosystems.

The California projects selected for funding are:

• Arvin-Edison Water Storage District, AEWSD Drought Recovery Wells and Conjunctive Use Modeling Tool, $2,000,000
• California Land Stewardship Institute, Creating Long-Term Water Supply Resiliency for the Communities of Ukiah Valley and the Upper Russian River, $1,531,635
• Cawelo Water District, Reuse Produced Water Project, $5,000,000
• City of Big Bear Lake, Wolf Reservoir Boosters and Pipeline Project, $1,600,000
• City of Rialto, City 3A Groundwater Well Treatment Facility Project, $2,000,000
• Delano-Earlimart Irrigation District, Turnipseed Water Bank Phase VI, $2,352,759
• Fresno Irrigation District, Carter-Bybee Recharge Basin Project, $2,000,000
• Goleta Water District, Goleta Water District Airport Well Treatment Project, $2,000,000
• Pixley Irrigation District, Phase I – Lateral #4 Expansion Project, $2,000,000
• Porterville Irrigation District, North West Service Area Conjunctive Use Groundwater Recharge Project, $460,891
• San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, Cactus Basins Connector Pipeline Project, $1,353,519
• Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, S Wells Per- & Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Treatment & Disinfection Facilities, $5,000,000
• Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District, Southeast Recharge Facility and Conveyance Improvements, $500,000
• Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District, Kimberlina Pipeline Conveyance Improvement Project, $1,315,083
• Stockton-East Water District, Stockton East Water District Aquifer Storage and Recovery Well, $600,000
• Trout Unlimited, Inc., Portola Redwoods State Park Drought Resiliency Project, $1,473,621
• Western Municipal Water District of Riverside County, Inc., Building Groundwater Reliability and Resiliency: Regional Well Installation and Water Quality Treatment Project, $5,000,000