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Reclamation releases Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Spend Plan

Camille Touton Sworn In as Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: stakeholder events & planning

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• Upper Colorado Basin Region

  Construction begins on El Vado Dam

  Reclamation this week began safety modifications at El Vado Dam located along the Rio Chama in northern New Mexico. Modifications ensure the continued structural stability of the facility which provides irrigation water for the Middle Rio Grande Valley including six Pueblos. Read More →

• Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region

  Reclamation selects Jennifer Carrington as Columbia-Pacific Northwest Regional Director

  Reclamation Acting Commissioner David Palumbo today named Jennifer J. Carrington regional director for the bureau’s Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region. Carrington has more than 27 years of Reclamation experience and officially assumed her duties as regional director May 8, 2022. Read More →

• Water and Energy Efficiency Grants

  Reclamation selects 22 projects to receive $17.3 million to improve water efficiency in West

  Reclamation selected 22 projects to share $17.3 million in WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grants. These competitive projects improve water use efficiency, increase renewable energy production, reduce the risk of water conflicts, and provide other benefits that will enhance water supply sustainability in the Western United States. Read More →

• Prize Competition

  Reclamation selects phase I winners of river modeling prize competition

  Reclamation announced the phase I Divide and Conquer Challenge winners. This challenge seeks to significantly improve the execution speed of numerical models that simulate river hydraulics, sediment erosion, transport, and deposition in rivers and streams. Read More →

• California-Great Basin Region

  Reclamation selects Cathy Wise as the Region’s Construction Engineer

  Reclamation’s California Great-Basin Region announced today the selection of Cathy Wise as the Construction Engineer for the Willows Construction Office. Read More →

• Chief Security Officer

  Matt Tracy named Reclamation's chief security officer

  Matt Tracy was selected as the Bureau of Reclamation’s chief security officer. As part of the Policy and Programs directorate, the Security Division works with regional and field organizations to protect employees, the public and Reclamation facilities. Read More →

• Upper and Lower Colorado Basin Regions

  Reclamation’s drought response actions will boost Lake Powell

  Reclamation announced two separate urgent drought response actions that will help prop up Lake Powell by nearly 1 million acre-feet (maf) of water over the next 12 months (May 2022 through April 2023). Read More →

• Water and Energy Efficiency

  Reclamation announces 2023 funding opportunity for Water and Energy Efficiency Grants

  Bureau of Reclamation today announced a funding opportunity for the fiscal year 2023 WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grants to allocate Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding and fiscal year 2023 appropriations. Read More →

• Upper Colorado Basin Region

  Bug Flow experiment to be conducted this summer under the Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan

  Reclamation announced a Macroinvertebrate Production Flow, or Bug Flow, will be conducted this summer at Glen Canyon Dam under the Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan. This experiment is designed to improve egg-laying conditions for aquatic insects that are the primary food source for fish in the Colorado River. Read More →

• Dam Safety

  Miguel Rocha named Reclamation's chief of dam safety

  Miguel Rocha, P.E., was selected as the Bureau of Reclamation's chief of dam safety. Rocha will oversee the Dam Safety Program, which evaluates existing dams for safety concerns and implements proactive solutions for dams across Reclamation. Read More →

• Missouri Basin and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas Gulf Regions

  New fish bypass channel open at intake; Yellowstone River, Montana

  The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces the completion of the Lower Yellowstone fish bypass channel project near Glendive, Montana –water is flowing and the channel navigable. Read More →

• Reclamation employees deliver reliable water and hydropower for the western United States.