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<br />- . <br /> <br />.1. IV..L'''/ <br /> <br />works were identified. <br />During 1971, the Board took the lead in <br />obtaining Basin support for a salinity control <br />program. Numerous letters were written ex- <br />plaining the Basin's salinity problems, a <br />number of presentations were made before <br />interested groups, and meetings were held to <br />discuss the problem and seek cooperative <br />support in finding a solution to the Basin's <br />salinity problems. <br />On March 10, 1971, the Board adopted a <br />resolution requesting the United States to <br />commence feasibility level studies on poten- <br />tial salinity control projects in the Colorado <br />River Basin with the objective of establishing <br />a basinwide salinity reduction program. <br />Resolutions similar to this were adopted by <br />the governing bodies of many California wa- <br />ter agencies and agencies of all seven Basin <br />states. These resolutions were instrumental <br />in obtaining approximately $500,000 in fed- <br />eral funds to be used to commence feasibility <br />level studies during the 1971-72 fiscal year. <br />,\ meeting "'as l>e1d on July 10, 1971 with <br />Under Secretary of the Interior Pecora, other <br />Department of the Interior officials; repre- <br />sentatives of the Colorado River Basin States; <br />the Board's Chairman, Chief Engineer, and <br /> <br />26 <br /> <br />Special Counsel. As a result of the meeting, <br />Commissioner of Reclamation Armstrong <br />was directed to prepare a statement on spe- <br />cific proposed salinity control projects, a <br />timetable for feasibility studies and construc- <br />tion, and estimated project costs, <br />In September 1971 Commissioner Arm- <br />strong appointed Mr. John Maletic to be <br />Project Coordinator for the Bureau of Recla- <br />mation's Colorado River Water Q!!ality Im- <br />provement Program headquartered in <br />Denver, but reporting directly to Assistant <br />Commissioner Fairchild in Washington, <br />This organizational change was similar to a <br />recommendation made by the Board and rep- <br />resentatives of other basin states. <br />The main thrust of the program is to keep <br />salt from getting into the river by essentially <br />three types of projects: point-source control, <br />diffuse-source control, and irrigation-source <br />control. <br />Point-source control projects are in areas <br />of localized salt contributions such as min- <br />erai springs or outcrops of soluble forma- <br />tions adjacent to or underlYIng surface wafer <br />sources, Potential locations for these projects <br />are shown on Plate 8, <br />