PROGRAM

The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA)
program accelerates investment in our nation's water
infrastructure by providing long-term, low-cost supplemental
loans for regionally and nationally significant projects.

CITY OF OXNARD

PROJECT NAME Aquifer Storage Recovery Project
LOCATION: Oxnard, CA

INVITED WIFIA LOAN AMOUNT $29 million
POPULATION SERVED BY PROJECT: 210,000
PROJECT TYPE: Water Reuse

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The Aquifer Storage Recovery Project will include the following enhancements to the City's recycled
water system: 1) increase its capacity from the current 6.25 million gallons per day (MGD) to 12,5 MGD;
2) construct six aquifer and storage recovery wells; 3) install a 20-inch diameter distribution pipeline to
convey recovered groundwater from the aquifer and storage recovery wells to three existing water
blending stations; and 4) upgrade blending stations. The purpose of the project is to optimize and
expand the City's Advanced Water Purification Facility production in combination with aquifer storage
and recovery operations to increase local water supply availability and reliability and improve overdraft
and water quality conditions of the Oxnard Basin. The project will improve the City's long-term supply
reliability even during times of drought.

NUMBER OF PEOPLE IMPACTED:

25 million in 20 states

Selected projects must submit an application for a WIFIA loan, pass a creditworthiness assessment,
negotiate a mutually agreeable term sheet, and execute a credit agreement to receive WIFIA funding.
An invitation to apply indicates that EPA believes the selected projects will be able to attain WIFIA loans.

FY 2020 SELECTION ROUND

TOTAL WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
INVESTMENT SUPPORTED: $12.5 billion

TOTAL LOAN AMOUNT $5.1 billion

NUMBER OF PROJECTS SELECTED: 55

United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

WEBSITE: www.epa.gov/wifia
EMAIL; wifia@EPA.gov


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