National Ground-Water Monitoring Network
Program Funding
Annual program obligations reported to SAM.gov.
Funded Projects
Examples of what this program has supported.
Program Objective
To support data providers for the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network. The National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN) is a cooperative, integrated system of data collection, management, and reporting that will provide data needed to address groundwater management questions. Assistance is provided to new and existing data providers of the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network. The program will provide support to state or local Water-Resource agencies which collect groundwater data to serve as data providers for the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network. Support will allow the data providers to perform tasks to get their data into the Network such as: selecting and categorizing their wells within NGWMN specifications, adding sites to the network, establishing and maintaining connections between their databases and the NGWMN Portal. Support will also allow agencies to maintain their connections to the NGWMN Portal and to enhance their networks to provide better data to the NGWMN.
Eligibility
Eligible Applicants
- Federally Recognized Tribal Government
- Local
- State
Proposals will be accepted from interstate, State, U.S. territory or possession, local, public nonprofit water-resource agencies/organizations which collect and maintain groundwater-level or groundwater-quality data. Various elements of the data which are required for the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network are often available from different agencies within a state. Each agency within a state which wishes to participate in the Network can submit a proposal for their part of the work. States may also submit a single proposal that covers the work of multiple state agencies. Coordination of agencies within a state is strongly encouraged.
Beneficiaries
- Federally Recognized Tribal Government
- Local
- State
Federal, State, Federally recognized Indian Tribal, and local governments, public nonprofit institutions/organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations, profit organizations, industry and public decision makers, research scientists, engineers, and the general public will ultimately benefit from data made available through the program.
How to Apply
Award Procedure
Notification of an award is by receipt of a grant or cooperative agreement from a U.S. Geological Survey contracting officer.
From 60 to 120 days
Program details & compliance
Description
The Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program of the USGS offers a cooperative agreement funding opportunity to tribal, state, and local water-resources agencies that collect groundwater data to participate in the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN). The NGWMN is designed to be a compilation of selected wells and springs from existing monitoring efforts to create a network to assess long-term water-level and water-quality trends at a national scale. The focus and goal of the NGWMN is on long-term data collected at a sufficient frequency to determine seasonal and long-term effects. Water-level and water-quality data from both wells and springs are included in the NGWMN. The NGWMN allows water managers to share their water-level and water-quality monitoring data to help monitor current conditions and avoid future water conflicts that may result from changes in the environment. The NGWMN focuses on monitoring groundwater in the Nation’s most productive aquifers. The NGWMN is designed primarily to help answer questions of groundwater availability at a principal or major aquifer scale. The NGWMN focuses on serving data at actively monitored sites to help answer current groundwater availability questions. To create a unified network, field and data management techniques need to be as consistent as possible and sites need to be selected and classified in a common manner. The NGWMN serves data from the data providers’ databases. To accomplish this, the data providers must set up and maintain persistent web services for their databases. The data elements from these web services are mapped to the Portal elements so that data can be retrieved to answer questions at a regional scale that crosses data provider boundaries.
Mission Categories
Primary: Community Water Supply
Other categories:
Water Pollution ControlEarth and EnvironmentChemistry
Use of Funds
Allowed Uses
Funding will be used to 1) help new data providers participate in the network, and 2) support existing data providers. Funding for new providers primarily is intended to support data providers to select and categorize their data in accordance with the Framework document guidelines, and to make data for selected sites available to the NGWMN. Funding for existing data providers will support work to keep their connections to the NGWMN data portal up to date and to enhance their networks to improve data available to the NGWMN. This can include updating data on their wells, performing maintenance or repairs on wells to maintain the ability to collect reliable data, drilling new or replacement wells for the NGWMN.
Required Documentation
Proposals must include documentation of the data that are collected by the applicant that would become part of the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network. Proposals that intend to provide data that are collected by other agencies or entities generally will not be considered.
Matching Requirements
Matching Requirements: Percent: Other Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing. Match is not required on work proposed under Objectives 1, 2, or 3. Match is not required but is recommended for the remaining four Objectives. Match can be in the form of in-kind services cost share or direct match. The amount of the cost share is not specified, but will be considered as part of proposal evaluation. Objectives that provide less than 25% match will be scored lower during proposal evaluation. In-kind services can include the costs to collect the data that will be provided to the NGWMN. Matching requirements are voluntary.
Reporting & Compliance
Applicable 2 CFR 200 Subparts
- Subpart B — General Provisions
- Subpart C — Pre-Federal Award Requirements
- Subpart D — Post-Federal Award Requirements
- Subpart E — Cost Principles
- Subpart F — Audit Requirements