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3/14/1979
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Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
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<br />Other things that we will be doing--we will be doing some seepage tests <br />up here (indicating) in these areas here, 3 and 4, where there are quite <br />a few acres of wetlands. What we are going to try to determine in that <br />particular area is how fast does the water seep out of these lakes or <br />ponds, or_ whatever you want to call them; and from that we will be able <br />to determine what impact pumping the groundwater down will have on <br />those particular wetlands. This will enter into our negotiations with <br />the Fish and wildlife Service on what needs to be done to mitigate some <br />of the impacts of the particular project. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />For FY 1980, the President has put into his budget, his recommendation <br />to Congress,$4,168,OOO for continued construction on this particular <br />project in FY 1980.: Right now, based on our best projections, we feel <br />that will be adequate funding for that particular project. <br /> <br />Let me go back to our a-year construction schedule for just a minute. <br />Our projections right now are that we will have Stages 1-2 completed <br />and in place and pumping_water into the Rio Grande River sometime i~ <br />1982 or 1983:. continuing on, _then, we project that Stage 3 should: be <br />completed and. ready to deliver water to the Rio Grande sometime about <br />1985 and that Stages 4 and 5 would then be completed and in service <br />about 1987. And at that time, we are anticipating that we can deliver <br />on the average of about lOO,OOO acre-feet of water per year and that we <br />would be .able-to have a good project which can operate under the terms' <br />of both the Rio Grande Compact and the authorizing legislation that <br />authorized this project to begin_ with._ <br /> <br />Our present designs call for about 150 wells total for the entire <br />project, and they will be, of course, scattered throughout these five- <br />stages. The conveyance canals have been realigned and redesigned from <br />what was in the original feasibility report as authorized by Congress.- <br />The original canal alignment had: two canals inVOlved in this particular <br />case. The main canal came down in through this area (indicating), and <br />we had what we called an "eastside: conveyance canal, "- which came over <br />from this area (indicating) and picked up some water, and the two <br />joined and then went into the Rio Grande. We have taken another look <br />at that particular layout and have been able to redesign the canal <br />sufficiently, relocate the canal sufficiently, so that now we only have <br />one conveyance canal. The canal will, basically, run down the middle - <br />of the stages. It will be coming in from here (indicating) and coming <br />down through this area (indicating), skirting the San Luis Lake area <br />and swinging over here (indicating), going around what is now called the <br />"Bronco Wildlife Habitat Area" and skirting right on the edge of it and <br />coming down through here (indicating) and cutting across the existing <br />Alamo National Wildlife Refuge right here on the corner (indicating) and <br />dumping into the Rio Grande right about in this area_here (indicating). <br /> <br />One of the problems we have run into with this main conveyance canal, <br />of course, is grade and elevation. And we are not able to get high <br />enough elevation_where we go into the river itself, so that we are now <br />going to have to have a pumping plant at that particular ~ocation. We <br />estimate- right now that about 60 percent of the time we will be pumping <br />some of the water into the river. If the river is dry, we can deliver <br />the full amount of water without any pumping; but as soon as the river <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />-12-- <br />
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