Nearly $850 million awarded for water infrastructure projects in 11 western states

The Department of the Interior has awarded $849 million to repair and improve water infrastructure projects across 11 western states.

The funding includes $204 million for correcting subsidence impacts caused by the Delta–Mendota Canal in California’s Central Valley; $143 million for reconfiguring water infrastructure in the San Acacia Reach, a 60-mile stretch of the Rio Grande downstream from the San Acacia Diversion Dam south of Albuquerque in New Mexico; $118.3 million for 14 projects located in the Colorado River Basin; $37.2 million to replace the St. Mary and Halls Coulee siphons in northern Montana; $34 million for several projects relating to the Blue Mesa Reservoir in Gunnison County; $32 million for water projects for four North Dakota tribes; $28.3 million to replace and refurbish equipment in the hydropower station within the Glen Canyon Dam, which forms Lake Powell in northern Arizona and many others.