WSP10325

• File Number: 8272.100.60
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 10/1/1999
• Author: CRBSCF
• Title: Supplemental Report on the 1999 Review - Water Quality Standards for Salinity - Colorado River System
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

"Strength Through
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Michael Mllovlch
Commissioner
[phone]

WIlliam D. Krampel
Commissioner
[phone]

Tom Matthews
Commissioner
[phone]

August 17, 1999

Mr. Jack Barnett, Executive Director
Colorado River Salinity Control Forum
106 West 500 South, Suite ,101
Bountiful, Utah 84010

To the Colorado River Salinity Control Forum,

This letter is written in support of the findings of the Colorado river Salinity Control
triennial review report. The report detailed the progress of the Forum in
implementing salinity control practices within the Colorado River Basin. Our
organization fully supports the adoption and application of salinity control practices
within our watershed areas. ,The salinity control programs of the Bureau of
Reclamation, and USDA programs, and basin states cost sharing programs have
benefitted millions of downstream water users of the Colorado River, but there is
much more work to reduce salinity levels left to accomplish.

Our organization supports acceleration of the salinity control programs, especially
in getting the USDA portion of the program to adequate funding levels of twelve
million dollars per year from the EQIP program. Local producers are ready, willing
and able to install salinity <<ontrol practices, if adequate financial and technical
assistance is available. It will take a strong USDA funding commitment to keep up
the progress made by the Forum to date, and in the future to meet the water quality
criteria for lower basin states.

Sincerely,

W'a; _f)./y,~. /l.f. 2Zr~;~ M ~j~
William D. Krompel I Mike Milovic om Matth~ws

Carbon County Commission

Carbon County 120 East Main Street. Price 16 4501. [phone]. Fax [phone]