The Imperial Irrigation District announced in a recent press report that it has been awarded $7 million in grant funds from the Department of the Interior in support of the district’s proposed Upstream Operational Reservoir Project, which would be the largest reservoir ever constructed in the Imperial Valley during IID’s 113-year history as an irrigation district. The announcement was recently made by the Interior Department, with funds coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to increase water supply reliability. This latest grant award to IID is in addition to a $9.5 million grant previously awarded to the district for a total of $16.5 million in federal funding for the Upstream Operational Reservoir Project.

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