R24AC00136
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Public purpose: Central Coast Blue will increase groundwater recharge and improve groundwater quality through the design, permitting, and construction of an advanced water purification facility (AWPF), conveyance infrastructure, monitoring wells, and injection wells to inject advanced purified water into the basin to prevent groundwater contamination caused by seawater intrusion.
The project will provide communities with a new, locally controlled and drought-resistant water supply by using a resource that is currently discharged into the ocean. The project will construct an AWPF that utilizes a process train consisting of ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet advanced oxidation process to treat wastewater to the required level of quality for groundwater injection. The AWPF will be located in Grover Beach at the south end of Huber Street.
This site is located between the Pismo Beach Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) and the San Louis Obispo County Sanitation District WWTP, along the Pismo Beach outfall pipeline. Brine and other residuals generated during project operations will be discharged to the existing ocean outfall. A recycled water production potential of 4,390-acre feet per year was estimated by taking the average of the monthly flows and the estimated recovery rates through advanced treatment.
Groundwater modeling indicates the yield for this project will have a 100144% benefit from each acre feet of water injected into the basin. The estimated annual recycled water yield will be twice as much as the Central Coast Blue partners existing groundwater entitlement. More groundwater modeling is being performed to update and improve estimates of water yield from the project after injection. Phase 1 requires up to five injection wells and Phase 2 will require up to an additional two injection wells for a total of up to seven wells.
Groundwater will continue to be extracted by the Northern Cities Management Area agencies using their existing production wells. Activities to be performed: Objective 1: Contractual support for program planning. Objective 2: Contract for environmental documentation and permitting services. Objective 3: Contract for program management, permitting, and final design. Objective 4: Contractual support for infrastructure construction.
Deliverable(s) and expected outcome(s): Obj. 1 outcomes: Engineering planning and design services for program planning tasks, including groundwater modeling design, construction and data collection for a test injection and monitoring well environmental documentation and environmental permitting support permitting strategy support establishing technical basis of design pilot plant planning studies and program management. Obj. 2 outcomes: Environmental consulting services to prepare CEQA and NEPA environmental documentation for program facilities.
Environmental consulting services to prepare addendum to the original 2021 EIR, including associated environmental surveys. Obj. 3 outcomes: Engineering design services associated with final design for the programs advanced water purification facility, pipelines, and wells including engineering design, program management, project management, cost estimating, permitting, enhanced source control program development, Title 22 engineering report, strategic communications and stakeholder outreach, contractor prequalification, and bid phase services. Obj. 4 outcomes: Construction of the program facilities anticipated in three separate construction contracts: 1) Construction of the advanced water purification facility, 2) well drilling, and 3) pipeline construction and well equipping.
Professional services contracts to support the construction of all projects will include construction management, engineering services during construction, program management, and permitting compliance. An additional contract is anticipated for facility startup. Beneficiary: The public. Sub-recipient activities: Not applicable.
The project will provide communities with a new, locally controlled and drought-resistant water supply by using a resource that is currently discharged into the ocean. The project will construct an AWPF that utilizes a process train consisting of ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet advanced oxidation process to treat wastewater to the required level of quality for groundwater injection. The AWPF will be located in Grover Beach at the south end of Huber Street.
This site is located between the Pismo Beach Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) and the San Louis Obispo County Sanitation District WWTP, along the Pismo Beach outfall pipeline. Brine and other residuals generated during project operations will be discharged to the existing ocean outfall. A recycled water production potential of 4,390-acre feet per year was estimated by taking the average of the monthly flows and the estimated recovery rates through advanced treatment.
Groundwater modeling indicates the yield for this project will have a 100144% benefit from each acre feet of water injected into the basin. The estimated annual recycled water yield will be twice as much as the Central Coast Blue partners existing groundwater entitlement. More groundwater modeling is being performed to update and improve estimates of water yield from the project after injection. Phase 1 requires up to five injection wells and Phase 2 will require up to an additional two injection wells for a total of up to seven wells.
Groundwater will continue to be extracted by the Northern Cities Management Area agencies using their existing production wells. Activities to be performed: Objective 1: Contractual support for program planning. Objective 2: Contract for environmental documentation and permitting services. Objective 3: Contract for program management, permitting, and final design. Objective 4: Contractual support for infrastructure construction.
Deliverable(s) and expected outcome(s): Obj. 1 outcomes: Engineering planning and design services for program planning tasks, including groundwater modeling design, construction and data collection for a test injection and monitoring well environmental documentation and environmental permitting support permitting strategy support establishing technical basis of design pilot plant planning studies and program management. Obj. 2 outcomes: Environmental consulting services to prepare CEQA and NEPA environmental documentation for program facilities.
Environmental consulting services to prepare addendum to the original 2021 EIR, including associated environmental surveys. Obj. 3 outcomes: Engineering design services associated with final design for the programs advanced water purification facility, pipelines, and wells including engineering design, program management, project management, cost estimating, permitting, enhanced source control program development, Title 22 engineering report, strategic communications and stakeholder outreach, contractor prequalification, and bid phase services. Obj. 4 outcomes: Construction of the program facilities anticipated in three separate construction contracts: 1) Construction of the advanced water purification facility, 2) well drilling, and 3) pipeline construction and well equipping.
Professional services contracts to support the construction of all projects will include construction management, engineering services during construction, program management, and permitting compliance. An additional contract is anticipated for facility startup. Beneficiary: The public. Sub-recipient activities: Not applicable.
Awardee
Grant Program (CFDA)
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
San Luis Obispo,
California
United States
Geographic Scope
County-Wide
Related Opportunity
City Of Pismo Beach was awarded
Central Coast Blue Groundwater Recharge & Quality Improvement Project
Cooperative Agreement R24AC00136
worth $16,515,094
from the Bureau of Reclamation in May 2024 with work to be completed primarily in California United States.
The grant
has a duration of 4 years 4 months and
was awarded through assistance program 15.504 Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse.
$77,949,709 (83.0%) of this Cooperative Agreement was funded by non-federal sources.
The Cooperative Agreement was awarded through grant opportunity WaterSMART: Title XVI WIIN Act Water Reclamation and Reuse Projects.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 6/4/24
Period of Performance
5/23/24
Start Date
9/30/28
End Date
Funding Split
$16.5M
Federal Obligation
$77.9M
Non-Federal Obligation
$94.5M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
R24AC00136
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
None
Awardee Classifications
City Or Township Government
Awarding Office
140R20 MP-REGIONAL OFFICE
Funding Office
140R81 DENVER FED CENTER
Awardee UEI
DQFQNATHRK91
Awardee CAGE
5U6P5
Performance District
CA-24
Senators
Dianne Feinstein
Alejandro Padilla
Alejandro Padilla
Modified: 6/4/24