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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8273.100
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Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agencies - Bureau of Reclamation
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Colorado Mainstem
Water Division
5
Date
12/1/1980
Author
DOI BOR
Title
Salinity Update - December 1980 - A Quarterly Report on the Colorado River Water Improvement Program
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<br />New Control Concept to be Tested-PVID <br /> <br />... <br />0) <br />00 <br />.;::. <br /> <br />A demonstration program IS scheduled <br />10 begm In December on the Palo Verde <br />Ifflgallon DIStrrCl Umt to determme <br />whether saline grOUnd water underlYing <br />the unit can be flushed Into the Colorado <br />RIVer <br /> <br />ThiS sallnlly Source IS located on the <br />PalO Verde IrrigatiOn D'strlcl a pflvale <br />development of approximately 91.400 <br />acres near BIY!he. Call1ornla IrrigatIOn <br />relurn flOws and canal seepage are <br />gradually flUShing lhe salme ground <br />water-and 152_000 tons 01 sail <br />annuallY-into lhe Colorado <br /> <br />Preliminary Studies ot!he unit, as <br />outlined In a Marcn 1980 status report, <br />indicate lhal Onlarm Improvements <br />would help reduce the salt diSCharges <br />Tnese ImprOvements Could mclude <br />more elllclenllrrrgatlon meltlOds. better <br />IrrIgatIOn water managemenl. and IInmg <br />Itrlgatlon canals <br /> <br />Another conlrol POSSibility IS 10 Ilush <br />some 01 the s.alme ground water Into the <br />fiver The demonstrallon program IS <br />bemg conducted 10 In\lestlgate Ihls <br />POSSibility Martm Emert, Lower <br />COlorado Region engineer and team <br />leader lor studies. on lhe unil_ IS <br />organlzmg Ihe demonstrallOn <br />program <br /> <br />"ThiS prOgram IS unique because to Our <br />k.nowledge. II has not been tried belore, <br />said Emert <br /> <br />"Whal w,1I happen IS tnat a 3QO-acre plot <br />of the Palo Verde Subarea m the <br /> <br />SouthWestern part of the DIS.lflCt, will be <br />Irrigated while the ground IS fallow <br />Since there are no crops to soak up the <br />water more Of It Will flow mto Ihe ground <br />water table Hopelully, lhe added watel <br />will cause an Increase m the flow of <br />s.aline ground waler back to the flver <br /> <br />A sys.tem 01 observallon wells Will <br />monllor lhe ground water flow Data <br />gathered from lhes.e wells will be used to <br />analyze the program reSults. <br /> <br />There Will be 47 wells us.ed mIne <br />mOnitoring program Twowells-oneon <br />the north edge of Ihe test plOt.lheother <br />on the SOulh-wlll meaSure grouna <br />water movement al the 100-foOI depth <br />FlOw at 15 25_ and 40-1001 deplhs will be <br />monitored With 15 clusters of three wells <br />each These clusters will b{> spaced <br />arOund the pen meter 01 the tesl plot. <br /> <br />Tne surplus IIOws m lhe COloradO R,vel <br />make thiS program POSSible. accordmg <br />10 Elner! ThiS program could not be <br />conducted illhls water wasn-t available <br />The extra water has reduced the salmlty <br />concenlratlon mthe fiver Even If a large <br />amount of salme water IS flushed mlo lhe <br />river. thele IS enough water to dilute It, <br />ensuring that salinity levels Will not <br />ellceed the allowable standard' <br /> <br />The tlushmg ellperlment will end m <br />February 1981 ReSUlts ot the program. a <br />cooperative ellort between the Service. <br />US GeOlogical Sur\ley, Palo Verde <br />Irngatlon DIStflCt. and COlorado RIver <br />Board of California, are ellpected to be <br />available In lale 1981 <br /> <br />More detailed stUdIes will need 10 be <br />conducted t-efore a speCifiC conlrol plan <br />can be proposed lor Ihe Palo Verde <br />Irngatlon Dlstflcl Unit In the meantime. <br />If the flUShing concept works. as planned. <br />It COuld. says Emert "mean that the <br />amOunt of sail diSCharged IlltO the fiver <br />later on WOuld be reduced" <br /> <br />Glenwood-Dotsero Springs <br /> <br />Unit <br /> <br />On September 19 1980. a profeSSional <br />servIces conlract III the amounl of <br />$999.367 was awarded 10 URS Corpora- <br />lion. Denver. Colorado. to conduct <br />teChn'cal mvestlgatlons on me <br />GlenWOOd-Dotsero Sprmgs Unll <br /> <br />Paradox Valley Unit <br /> <br />A deep well Inlecllon Sludy us.mg Con- <br />tractor services was Soliclled The lop <br />',ve firms., 01 the eighteen who showed <br />an mterest If1 lhe study. were asked to <br />prepare prOPosals These proposals <br />were pnorlllzed. and Water and Power IS <br />negollatlng With lhe leading ',rm <br /> <br />Big Sandy River Unit <br /> <br />Request for Proposals (RFP) has been <br />Is.sued lor prOlesslonal serVices to <br />complete leas.lbllity Investigations on <br />the Big Sandy River Unl1 The 'lnal date <br />lor receipt of otters from pOlentlal <br />cOnlractors was December 8, 1980 An <br />award of contract IS antiCipated in <br />February 1981 <br /> <br />Palo Verde Unit Planning Team Leader <br /> <br />Martin Einert IS. a CI\l11 Engineer If1 the <br />Lower Colorado Region Plannmg DIVI- <br />sion He has bt'en With the Water and <br />Power Resources Service about 22 <br />years <br /> <br />Martin graduated from Union COllege <br />m SChenectady N",,^, Yor",-, In 1961 <br />With a degree III CIvil engmeerlng He <br />grew up In New Jersey bul moved <br />West to begm hiS Government career <br />In Wyommg (Upper Coforado <br />~eglonJ <br /> <br />V1artln wor"'-ed III variOUS phases of <br />)rOJect construcllon m Wyoming He <br />hen mO\led to Ephrata WaShington <br />Pac,l,c Northwest Region). and <br />legan hiS career III prOlect planning <br />1f.:' worked l!l the San Bernardino <br />Ilflce III California before movlflg to <br />'le Regional Planning O!tlce m <br />lou!aer City III 19;.: <br /> <br />Einert has. worked on the LaVerkm <br />Springs COlorado RI\ler Indian Reser- <br />vallon. Lower Virgin River. and PalO <br />Verde Irrigation DIS.lflct sallnlfy con- <br />trol unllS s,nce he has been m the <br />Lower Colorado Region He IS team <br />leader lor the PalO Verde Unit. and as <br />SUCh, he coordmales, gUides. and <br />manages Plannmg studies 'at the unll <br /> <br />Maflm has been Involved With many <br />Oulsloe actlvllles over the years He IS <br />now enJoYing hlkmg and ellploflng <br /> <br /> <br />
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