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Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement (YRBWE)

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

15.531

Program objective

Within the Yakima River Basin: (1) to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife through improved water management; improved instream flows; improved water quality; protection, creation and enhancement of wetlands; and by other appropriate means of habitat improvement; (2) to improve the reliability of water supply for irrigation; (3) to authorize a Yakima River basin water conservation program that will improve the efficiency of water delivery and use; enhance basin water supplies; improve water quality; protect, create and enhance wetlands, and determine the amount of basin water needs that can be met by water conservation measures; (4) to realize sufficient water savings from the Yakima River Basin Water Conservation Program so that not less than 40,000 acre-feet of water savings per year are achieved by the end of the fourth year of the Basin Conservation Program; (5) to encourage voluntary transactions among public and private entities which result in the implementation of water conservation measures, practices and facilities; and (6) to provide for the implementation by the Yakama Indian Nation at its sole discretion of (A) Wapato Irrigation Project improvements, (B) an irrigation demonstration project on the Yakama Indian Reservation using water savings from system improvements to the Wapato Irrigation Project, and (C) a Toppenish Creek corridor enhancement project integrating agricultural, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2017

    Information not available. In the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 construction seasons, Sunnyside Division Board of Control enclosed 8 miles of open laterals to pipelines, with an estimated 1001 acres-feet of conserved water annually. In construction season 17/18 Kittitas Reclamation District lined 1.6 miles of earthen canals for an estimated conserved water of 1,662 acres-feet annually. Roza’s re-regulations reservoir that was completed 17/18 construction season will conserve an estimated 5,523 acre-feet starting in this FY18 irrigation season.

  2. 2019

    In construction seasons 17/18 and 18/19 Sunnyside Division Board of Control enclosed 9.6 miles of open laterals to pipelines, with an estimated 1001 acres-feet of conserved water annually. In construction season 17/18 and 18/19 Kittitas Reclamation District lined 3.63 miles of earthen canals for an estimated conserved water of 2,178 acres-feet annually. In construction seasons 19/20 Sunnyside Division Board of Control (SDBOC) completed Phase IIC enclosing 4.91 miles with 128 acft of conserved water. This completed agreement piped a total of 18.9 miles of open laterals to enclosed pipe, and total conserved annual water savings of 2,172 acft. SDBOC Phase IID completed 2.95 miles of open lateral to enclosed pipe for an additional annual conserved water savings of 375 acft. In construction season 19/20 Kittitas Reclamation District lined 2290 feet of earthen canals for an estimated conserved water of 101 acre-feet annually.

  3. 2021

    In construction seasons 20/21 Sunnyside Division Board of Control (SDBOC) Phase IID completed 7.3 miles of open lateral to enclosed pipe for an estimated annual conserved water savings of 433 ac-ft.

  4. 2022

    Funding provided to complete existing cooperative agreements with the State of Washington and the Sunnyside Div Board of Control.

  5. 2023

    Additional funding will be provided to continue a financial assistance agreement and continue implementation of water conservation program.

  6. 2024

    Additional funding will be provided to award a financial assistance agreement and continue implementation of water conservation program.

  7. 2025

    Additional funding will be provided to continue a financial assistance agreement and continue implementation of water conservation program.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

2 CFR 200 UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, COST PRINCIPLES, AND AUDIT REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL AWARDS and the applicable OMB Circulars. These documents may also be obtained by contacting the Bureau of Reclamation Office listed below.

  1. Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 1994, Title XII,Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project, Public Law 103-434.