Desert terminal lakes water program in Nevada

Four records, two keys: 15.508 and Nevada

CFDA 15.508 is titled PROVIDING WATER TO AT-RISK NATURAL DESERT TERMINAL LAKES. Crossed with Nevada place of performance, the obligation sum is $180,849,708.58 on 4 awards. The national 15.508 hub includes other states if any. Nevada’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $180,849,708.58 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of lake elevations or water rights.

Other Reclamation and Interior water catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing them into $180,849,708.58 would invent a broader water total than this cell contains. Packet facts are $180,849,708.58, 4 awards, NV, and 15.508. Correlation is not causation. Airport Improvement 20.106 and Guard O&M 12.401 are separate Nevada joins.

Reading n = 4 under Nevada terminal-lakes

Four awards against $180,849,708.58 yield a simple mean near $45.21 million. The facts do not publish a median, a range, or unique recipients. With n = 4, a single large instrument can dominate the mean. 4 is a record count in an aggregate, not 4 lakes and not 4 completed water deliveries.

Treat 4 as an award-record count, not as four finished project years. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see whether a row is a continuation, renewal, or correction. Unique recipient names are unpublished and are not invented here. Downward modifications, if they exist in the raw file, are already netted into the total supplied in the facts.

Nevada geography on the 15.508 tag

NV is the place-of-performance code. An award can post to a Reclamation office or statewide address even when the hydrology spans a basin. Awards coded to California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, or Arizona stay outside $180,849,708.58 even when a terminal lake or tributary crosses a state line.

Nevada federal spending is the all-program parent. 15.508 is one row on Nevada programs. $180.8 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Providing Water To At-Risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes in Nevada for the filtered table, CFDA 15.508 for the catalog without a Nevada filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $180,849,708.58.

What the terminal-lakes join does not prove

A large 15.508 total tagged to Nevada does not measure lake levels, water quality, or acre-feet delivered. It does not equal invoices paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. The headline remains $180,849,708.58 on 4 awards for Providing Water To At-Risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes in Nevada.

Keep both sides of the join: Providing Water To At-Risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes and Nevada, obligations only. Do not annualize $180,849,708.58 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a hydrology story. Lake names beyond the catalog title are not in the facts and are not invented here.

Using the Nevada × 15.508 overlay

The overlay target is the Nevada × CFDA 15.508 table. Open Providing Water To At-Risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes in Nevada when you want the same $180,849,708.58 / 4-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 15.508 drops the Nevada filter. Nevada federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Nevada programs lists other catalogs beside 15.508. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to rank Nevada basins, to name water users, or to treat obligations as cash. The pair is 15.508 plus NV. Obligations of $180,849,708.58 are not outlays. Cite Providing Water To At-Risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes together with Nevada whenever you reuse $180,849,708.58. 4 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov. The overlay path is the live table for this 15.508 × NV cell. Later bulk files can restate $180,849,708.58 without changing the join key. Place of performance remains Nevada; CFDA remains 15.508.

Limits of the packet facts for Nevada 15.508

The packet publishes four numbers and two labels: $180,849,708.58, 4 awards, Nevada, and CFDA 15.508 titled Providing Water To At-Risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes. It does not publish fiscal year, unique recipients, acre-feet, or outlays. Recipient names are unpublished and are not invented here.

Researchers who need award-level rows should open the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than stretch $180,849,708.58 into a water-balance study. The join is a filter, not a causal claim. FEC files do not explain the 4 awards. Keep the 15.508 catalog named with Nevada in every reuse of $180,849,708.58. AwardCount stays 4 until a new ingest revises it. Do not fold other Reclamation catalogs into $180,849,708.58.

Questions

How much desert terminal-lakes water funding is obligated in Nevada?

USAspending records $180,849,708.58 in CFDA 15.508 obligations with Nevada place of performance across 4 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not an acre-foot census. Keep Providing Water To At-Risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes and Nevada together when citing $180,849,708.58.

Does 4 awards mean 4 Nevada lakes?

No. The facts report 4 award records totaling $180,849,708.58. Lake names and unique recipients are unpublished. 4 is a record count in an aggregate, not a lake census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 15.508 × NV pair.

Is this Nevada’s total federal water spending?

No. This join is CFDA 15.508 only. Other Reclamation and Interior catalogs appear on separate Nevada program pages. Nationwide 15.508 is not limited to Nevada. Obligations of $180,849,708.58 are not outlays.

Do campaign donations fund Nevada terminal-lakes awards?

No. FEC contribution files and USAspending award files are different datasets. This page reports $180,849,708.58 in 15.508 obligations tagged to Nevada. Correlation is not causation. Do not treat donations as the funding source.