Today, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced the funding recommendation to fully award the available $26 million of Proposition 68 grant funding to 6 awardees. This money is from the Sustainable Groundwater Management (SGM) Grant Program Implementation Round 1 and goes toward projects that will help support Critically Overdrafted (COD) Basins.  The six projects awarded are as follows:

Organization Name	Project	Award
Fresno Irrigation District	Kings Basin 2021 GSP Implementation Projects	$4,866,600
Madera County	Eastside Bypass Recharge for Subsidence and Flood Risk Reduction Phase 1	$4,197,600
Madera County	East Madera Subbasin Recharge Project Phase 1	$4,197,600
Merced Irrigation District	Southern Merced Subbasin Recharge Project	$4,999,800
Mid-Kaweah GSA	Kaweah Subbasin Groundwater Recharge and Sustainability Projects	$3,776,400
Westlands Water District GSA	The Pasajero Groundwater Recharge Project	$3,962,400

The SGM Grant Program received 15 applications totaling over $70 million in requested grant funds.  The six recommended award grants are comprised of 16 individual construction projects within COD basins that will construct seven new and expand three existing recharge basin covering over 130 acres.