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• Title Transfer

  Trump Administration Transfers Federal Water Facility to Local Ownership

  The Bureau of Reclamation notified Congress today of its intent to transfer ownership of the Provo River Project South Branch Canal to the Utah Lake Distributing Company (ULDC). This action continues the Trump Administration’s commitment to transferring appropriate water-related facilities to local ownership under the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management and Recreation Act (P.L. 116-9), which was signed by President Trump in March of 2019. The Act expedites the title transfer process for eligible projects, such as dams, canals and other water-related facilities. The proposed transfer is the seventh Reclamation water project transfer implemented under the Act. Read More →

• Prize Competition

  Reclamation moves five ideas forward in prize competition to help improve sediment removal in reservoirs

  The Bureau of Reclamation has selected five projects to each receive $75,000 through phase one of the Guardians of the Reservoir Challenge. The contest seeks new ways to effectively and continually manage sediment in reservoirs. The five winning projects move to phase two, where solvers continue developing their solutions and perform a laboratory-scale demonstration of their ideas. Read More →

• California

  Reclamation, Biggs-West Gridley Water District and Ducks Unlimited complete major milestone in Gray Lodge Wildlife Area water supply project

  The Bureau of Reclamation, Ducks Unlimited, Inc. and Biggs-West Gridley Water District completed the second phase of a five-phase construction project to improve water conveyance for the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area. This milestone includes increasing capacity of two major canals that feed water to the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, home to more than a million waterfowl annually. Read More →

• Shasta Dam

  Trump Administration finalizes Shasta Dam raise plan to increase water storage for Californians and the environment

  The Trump Administration today released the Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to increase water storage capacity in the Shasta Lake reservoir by 634,000 acre-feet, or more than 200 billion gallons. This is enough water to support more than 6 million Californians annually. Read More →

• Employees

  Blaise Prebo named Reclamation Project Manager of the Year

  Today, the Bureau of Reclamation announced that Blaise Prebo is Reclamation's Project Manager of the Year. Prebo is a project manager working in Reclamation's Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region in Grand Coulee, Washington. He was recognized during a Reclamation-wide virtual award ceremony. The award, new this year, reinforces the importance of project management for Reclamation's mission of delivering water and electricity to the Western United States. Read More →

• California

  Trump Administration greenlights Friant-Kern Canal repair

  Today, after the Trump Administration invested nearly $5 million to study and begin pre-construction work on the Friant Kern Canal Project, the Bureau of Reclamation signed the Record of Decision giving environmental clearance to repair a 33-mile stretch of the canal in California's eastern San Joaquin Valley. The section of the canal has lost over half of its original capacity to convey water due to subsidence—a sinking of the earth from groundwater extraction. The repairs will eventually restore full water delivery to over one million acres of farmland and 250,000 residents. Read More →

• Hydropower

  Commissioner Brenda Burman celebrates the hard work of Reclamation employees to deliver reliable water and hydropower for the western United States.