The Interior Department will spend more than $580 million to repair canals, dams, fish hatcheries and other water systems in the West, the department said on Wednesday.
Federal funding for water-related issues in the West has been ramping up, with an additional $4 billion allocated to alleviate the impacts of drought in the West as part of the
. That money will include paying for farmers to temporarily avoid planting crops to conserve water as well as longer-term investments in more efficient irrigation systems and improvements to canals to reduce how much water gets lost.The big ticket items in Interior’s repair projects include $43 million to refurbish generators and turbines in the San Luis hydropower plant in Merced County, Calif.
While much of the funding is aimed at repairing aging infrastructure some is targeted at preventing wasted water. In Idaho, $4 million will go toward lining six miles of a Boise-area canal to help avoid seepage. Another $4 million will be spent to fix a canal in the Columbia River Basin in Washington state that has been leaking water for “many years,” according to a list of the Bureau of Reclamation’s funded projects.
The issue of lost water — through evaporation or other forms of waste — has become a central point in the
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