DAC Involvement Program
The Disadvantaged Community Involvement Program is designed to ensure the involvement of disadvantaged communities (DACs), economically distressed areas (EDAs), or underrepresented communities (collectively referred to as DACs) in IRWM planning efforts. The Proposition 1 2016 IRWM Guidelines established the general process, procedures, and criteria that DWR is using to implement the IRWM DAC Involvement Program.
DWR has completed award of over $51 million to the 12 Funding Areas identified in Proposition 1 as shown in the table below. The status and contact information for each grant is provided in the following table:
- DACI Grant Status and Contact Table (updated: September, 2021)
Proposition 1 Disadvantaged Community Involvement Program Status
|
Funding Area |
Grantee | Minimum Allocation | Grant Award | Total Proposal Cost |
Agreement Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
North Coast |
Humboldt County | $2,650,000 | $2,650,000 | $2,650,000 |
4/21/2017 |
|
San Francisco* |
Association of Bay Area Governments | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 |
9/10/2019 |
|
Central Coast |
Regional Water Management Foundation | $4,300,000 | $4,300,000 | $4,300,000 |
2/13/2018 |
|
Los Angeles |
LA County Flood Control District | $9,800,000 | $9,800,000 | $9,800,000 |
3/23/2018 |
|
Santa Ana |
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority | $6,300,000 | $6,300,000 | $6,300,000 |
6/22/2017 |
|
San Diego |
San Diego County Water Authority | $5,250,000 | $5,551,350 | $6,374,968 |
2/13/2018 |
|
Sacramento River |
Yuba County Water Agency | $3,700,000 | $3,700,000 | $3,700,000 |
11/1/2017 |
|
San Joaquin River |
Contra Costa Water District | $3,100,000 | 3,100,000 | 3,100,000 |
1/31/2019 |
|
Tulare/Kern |
Tulare County | $3,400,000 | $3,400,000 | $3,400,000 |
2/13/2018 |
|
Lahontan |
California Rural Water Association | $2,450,000 | $2,450,000 | $2,450,000 |
1/25/2018 |
|
Colorado |
Coachella Valley Water District | $2,250,000 | $2,636,488 | $3,117,382 |
6/18/2018 |
|
Mountain Counties |
Sierra Institute for Community and Environment | $1,300,000 | $1,300,000 | $1,300,000 |
11/1/2017 |
|
Total |
$51,000,000 | $51,687,838 | $52,992,350 |
|
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| A change in the Grantee administering the San Francisco Program in 2019 resulted in a grant award split between two contracts; however, project sponsors throughout the Bay Area have been engaged continuously since award of the original contract in 2017. | |||||
Related Publications
The documents listed below are available upon request:
- Tulare Lake Basin DAC Study
- Coachella Valley DAC Outreach Demonstration Project
- Kings Basin DAC Pilot Project Study
- Greater Los Angeles County DAC Outreach Evaluation Study
- DACs and the Inyo-Mono IRWM Program
- Economically Disadvantaged Communities in the North Coast Region
- Santa Cruz IRWM, DAC Outreach Pilot Project Report & City of Watsonville Projects 2014
- DAC 2014 Visioning Workshop
- Californian's Without Safe Water and Sanitation, California Water Plan Update 2013
- Governor's Drinking Water Stakeholder Group, Report on and New and Expanding Funding Sources
Individual Funding Area Needs Assessments
Coachella Valley Water Managment Group DAC Outreach
Coachella Valley Water District Disadvantage Communities Infrastructure Task Force
Contact to request CRFA Water Needs Assessment final report dated July 2020