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.' Memorandum March 20, 1996 Page Two In a search of our files, the only document located was a bound volume titled CWCR Construction Fund Loan Application, Hidden Valley Reservoir and Stevens Lake Dam Enlargement by Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM) dated September 1992. The document consists of an undated loan application, a location map, a listing of P A WSD water rights with no indication of relative seniorities, an estimate of-Hidden Valley reservoir yield, and some core drilling results for the Hidden Valley site. In discussions with Jack DeLange of the PAWSD, I was told that a feasibility study had been submitted by CDM several years ago for Stevens Lake. I assume that the ConstrU(:tion Fund loan application with various attachments, as described above, is the document he is referring to as a feasibility study. In a telephone conversation with Keith Eberhardt, I was told that a feasibility study had never been done for either project. The two projects were again presented to the Board in January of 1993. The Stevens Lake enlargement was apparently recommended by the Board for a Construction Fund loan of $1,912,000 at 5.0 percent for 10 years (the notes of tlle meeting don't specify the name of the project). The Hidden Valley project was deferred for a year at the Board meeting. The 1993 Construction Fund bill (HB 93-1273) included an authorization of $1,912,000 for 10 years for Stevens Lake and $500,000 for Hidden Valley. I don't know how and why the $500,000 was authorized for Hidden Valley but the 1996 Construction Fund bill includes a deauthorization of the $500,000. Martinez Creek In March of 1995, the P A WSD requested funding for a feasibility study of Martinez Creek Reservoir under the Small Dam Site Program. A purchase order for $5,000.00 was issued later in the year for the feasibility study. I have the discussed the Martinez Creek project and the feasibility study with Jack DeLange and with Allen Davey of Davis Engineering, the consultant for the study, several times but we have not received ~ submittal to date. I informed Jack DeLange by phone that we will be unable to pay any invoices under the Small Dam Site purchase order until a feasibility study has been submitted. In August 1995, the P A WSD submitted an application for a Construction Fund loan in the amount of $750,000 for the Martinez Creek Reservoir project. The loan request was to be presented to the Board for inclusion in the 1996 Construction Fund bill. In telephone conversations with Jack DeLange and Allen Davey, I was told the Martinez Creek site was apparently too expensive. In December of 1995, Jack DeLange informed me by phone that the District will probably undertake the Stevens Lake enlargement and would not request a loan for the Martinez Creek Project at this time.