In 1998, the city of Boise signed a Cooperative Agreement with the Department of Energy which provides $870,000 for the construction of an injection well for the city’s geothermal heating system. The goal of the project is to hydraulically replenish the geothermal aquifer the city shares with the Boise Warm Springs Water District, the Veterans Administration hospital, and the state of Idaho Capital Mall buildings, and to reduce the discharge of spent geothermal water to the Boise River. If the injection well is successful, the moratorium that limits the geothermal production for the city’s system could be lifted and the city could expand the city-owned geothermal heating district