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<br />Bureau of ReClamati4 <br /> <br />. <br />~ ~ <br />~~~~~ <br />~'.~ ~ <br />-c-- ...., <br />~--' <br />~' : . - ':. <br /> <br />News Release <br /> <br />Upper Colorado Region <br /> <br />Salt Lake City, Utah <br />Loveless (801) 524-5403 <br />For Release September 18, 1984 <br /> <br /> <br />Contract Awarded for Design of Deep Injection Well and Surface Facilities <br />Paradox Valley Unit of the Colorado River Salinity Control Project <br /> <br />A contract for the design of a deep injection test well and surface <br /> <br />facilities for the Paradox Valley Unit of the Colorado River Salinity Control <br /> <br />Project in Colorado, was awarded September II, 1984, by the Bureau of <br /> <br />Reclamation, according to Secretary of the Interior William Clark. <br /> <br />Ken E. Davis and Associates of Houston, Texas, was selected for award <br /> <br />of the $1,056,958 architect-engineering services contract on the basis of <br /> <br />his technical expertise in the area of deep well disposal projects. The <br /> <br />contractor will provide design engineering, <br /> <br />testing, and construction <br /> <br />consultation services for the Paradox Valley Unit injection test well. Work <br /> <br />is scheduled to begin in mid-September, and may take Some 6 years to complete. <br /> <br />Actual drilling of the test well will be contracted for at a later date. <br /> <br />The Dolores River picks up some 205,000 tons of salt annually from <br /> <br />Paradox Valley and deposits it in the Colorado River. Paradox Valley brine <br /> <br />is 7 or 8 times as concentrated as sea water. <br /> <br />Reclamation will solve this <br /> <br />naturally-occurring problem by using approximately 25 existing shallow wells <br /> <br />to intercept the groundwater and inject it 2~ miles underground into the <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />Leadville Formation. <br /> <br />Current projections are that the well field is capable <br /> <br />of collecting some 180,000 tons of salt annually for disposal, thereby reducing <br /> <br />salinity at Imperial Dam by 18.2 mi lligrams -per-li ter. <br /> <br />Pumping as much as <br /> <br />900 gallons per minute (gpm) from the well field will be required. <br /> <br />-more- <br /> <br />UO 271 <br />