WSP00351

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/1/1965
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Quarterly Reports - Colorado-DOI - 1965
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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bridges. The apparent low bidder was Syb1on-Reid Company of Ogden,
Utah, with a bid of $695,802.

Relocation of State Highway No. 152 around San Luis Dam and Reservoir
has been completed and was opened with ceremonies on Apr il ~9.

Bids were opened in May for completion of Mile 18. Pumping Plant on the
San Luis Canal including installation of pumping units and switchyard con-
struction. The apparent low bid of $2,832,607 was submitted by Gunther
and Shirley Company and E. V. Lane Corporation, a joint venture.

Three sections of San Luis Canal totaling over 70 miles are under con-
struction and excavation; trimming and lining.operations are all underway.
Specifications were issued in April and bids are scheduled to be opened
in June for the fourth section of 9.4 miles of 60-foot, bottom width canal.

Bid calls expected in May and June include construction of a l7-mile reach
of the Tehama- Colusa Canal, concrete lined with a bottom width varying
from 52 to 24 feet. Bid calls are also scheduled for constructionof 94
miles of 500 kilovolt transmis sion line from the Oregon border to Round
Mountain, a portion of the Pacific Southwest-Pacific Northwest Intertie.

The Department of Interior has recommended that Congress enact legis-
1ation to re-authorize Central Valley Project to include New Hogan and
Black 'Butte dams and reservo irs constructed by the 'Corps of Engineers.
Proposed legislation would provide financial integration and operational
coordination of the two dams with Central Valley Project, while physical
operation would remain with the Corps of Engineers.

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Emergency flood repairs along the Truckee and Carson Rivers in Nevada
have been completed and at Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in 'Humboldt
County all flood damage repairs are scheduled for completion by June 10.

The water supply outlook for the coming season is excellent. Shasta Lake
filled on May 5 with 4. 5 million acre-feet. Clair Engle Lake behind Trinity
Dam filled on May 17 with 2.48 million acre-feet.

Lake Berryessa behind Monticello Dam, Solano Project, filled and has
been spilling since April 8. Folsom and Millerton lakes are expected to
fill before the start of the summer.

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For a complete review of proj ect planning activity, see Planning Status
Summary on following pages. .

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