Technical Assistance
DWR provides technical guidance and assistance to local and regional organizations to help address water and environmental challenges throughout California. To request assistance, contact your regional office using the map at the bottom of this page.
Examples of available technical services include:- Underrepresented communities, California Tribes, and small farmers groundwater technical assistance
- Groundwater basin assessments
- Groundwater elevation monitoring and analysis
- Monitoring and production well design and construction
- Installation and maintenance of groundwater monitoring facilities
- Aquifer performance testing and impact analysis
- Groundwater management planning and implementation
- Conjunctive use and groundwater transfer analysis
- Geologic mapping
- GIS services
- Water balance studies
- Mobile irrigation management laboratory
- Assistance with urban and agricultural water management plans
- Water supply evaluations and operations analysis
- Leak detection services
- Cropland idling verification for water transfers analysis
- Environmental and permitting documentation expertise (CEQA/NEPA, State and federal ESA, CWA 404 and 401 permits, storm water permits, DFG 1600 permits)
- Fish, wildlife, botanical, invertebrate, and vernal pool monitoring and population studies, habitat analyses, surveys, and investigations
- Watershed condition assessment
- River, stream, and meadow restoration project formulation, assessment, design, and implementation
- Flow measurement with gages, acoustic Doppler, weirs, orifices, and flumes
- Installation, operation, and maintenance of streamflow gaging stations, including telemetry systems
- Design and construction of water control and measurement structures
- Hydrologic, hydrodynamic, and hydraulic analysis and modeling, including flood plain mapping
- Bathymetric measurements and flow monitoring
- Water quality monitoring of lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater basins
- Water quality investigations, data management, interpretation, and trend analyses
- Biological monitoring, including benthic macroinvertebrates
- Aquatic ecology, limnology, environmental chemistry, and fisheries
- Hydrologic and hydraulic analysis and modeling, including conceptual design, floodplain mapping, and peer review
- Flood control project analysis
- Fish passage investigations, including the design of fish ladders and fish screens
- Surveying services, including conventional, GPS, and bathymetric surveying
- River rehabilitation project design
- 1 and 2-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling
- CAD mapping and database
- Topographic surveying
- Regulation of adjudicated water rights per superior court decrees
- Coordination with federal and State agencies to administer diversion of water in overlapping jurisdictions
- Education and outreach related to water resources, groundwater, climate change, and DWR funding opportunities
- Representation at meetings and workshops held by local and regional partners
Financial Assistance
In addition to technical assistance, DWR offers financial assistance to support sustainable water management, including for watershed resilience, environmental stewardship, water supply reliability, flood risk, groundwater sustainability, drought, and more. For information about current funding opportunities, visit our Grants and Loans webpage.
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