BOARD02093

• Board Meeting Date: 5/18/1979
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

was started by the Soil ConservatiOn Service. The rest of the
organizations are about to get on board with funding, and so forth.
But we hope this will be coming very soon.

The Grand Valley Salinity Coordinating Committee, which meets
quarterly now, is more or less of an advisory committee to. this
operation, and we try to organize our operation so that everybody
knows what is going on.

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First of a1l,'I:would like to call: on Paul
Operations of the Grand Junction office.
the Bureau's role in this effort?

Calder, who:is
Paul, would you

Chief, of,
talk about

MR. CALDER: Good morning. It is a privilege to be here. I would like
to take a few minutes and make some comments concerning thesstatus of
the Bureau of Reclamation activities with respect: to the salinity proj-
ect. Most of you are already familiar with this.

First with'respect to planning activities, the Bureau of Reclamation
is awarding today a $223,000 contract to a Denver consulting engineer-
ing firm. The title of it is CH2M Hill, Incorporated, to identify,
study, and,evaluate the alternatives,which implemented, would elimi-
nate or greatly reduce the current, salinity considerations of the
White River and the Meeker Dome area.

I rilight say that'this.is a first. of its kind for the'Bureau of
Reclamation in this area. Public meetings will.beheld in Meeker: next
month to provide details of the contract to the local people and to
obtain input and .to discuss alternatives.

The Lower Gunnison Unit, this project is in the first stage of the
planning, which involves collecting and evaluating data for the
Uncompahgre Valley around Delta and Montrose: ' Later;. similar studies
will be conducted around paonia and Crawford~ The feasibility report
is scheduled for December, 1981, and the Draft Environmental Statement
by January of 1982.

Glenwood-Dotsero Springs Unit, under current plans. The feasibility
level investigations will also be conducted by the water resources I
consultant under a special service contract similar. to the one that
we are awarding today for Meeker Dome. We hope that the experience
gfain:bd. fl:om Meeker Dfome whilllbe usedful in plann~ng thisi contdrahct. TJ;e .
eaS1 1 1ty report : or t e G enWOQ -Dots era Spr1ngs Un t an t eElS s
would be contemplated for 1984.

With respect to construction, Stage 1, the Grand Valley: Unit is ready
for construction and includes concrete lining and rehabilitation

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