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<br />\. <br /> <br />002607 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Board staff is continuing to receive the applications for the Lower Colorado <br />River Water Supply Project (LCWSP) water. The CRB staff plans to present a package <br />of new applications to the Board for its consideration at the July Board meeting. <br /> <br />WATER QUALlTY <br /> <br />PG&E Topock Gas Compression Station <br /> <br />At last month's Board meeting, the Chromium VI contamination issues at the <br />PG&E Topock Gas Compression Station site were discussed. PG&E proposed to pump <br />groundwater in order to create a reverse gradient to prevent the contaminated <br />groundwater from flowing toward the Colorado River. To accomplish this, PG&E <br />started on-site pumping and treating the water at this site on May I, 2004. As of May <br />31 'I, the total volume of groundwater that was pumped was about 1.615 million gallons or <br />4.96 acre-feet from the extraction well clusters. <br /> <br />Included in the handout material is a copy of the Bureau of Land Management's <br />(BLM) letter addressed to PG&E. In this letter, BLM is authorizing PG&E to treat the <br />contaminated groundwater on public land, as a short-term solution; however, BLM <br />expects a long-term solution to be in place soon. BLM also supports PG&E's potential <br />acquisition of the nearby MWD land and to construct a permanent treatment facility on <br />that parcel of land. <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum Meeting, Rock Springs, Wyoming, June J -3, <br />2004 <br /> <br />I attended the 70th meeting of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum <br />on June 3, 2004. The meeting was held in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Although I was <br />unable to attend, [understand that members of the Forum and the Forum's Work Group <br />had several informative tours of potential salinity control projects and a large oil and gas <br />well field located in southwestern Wyoming. <br /> <br />At the meeting of the Forum, reports were provided to Forum members from the <br />Regional Directors of Reclamation's Upper and Lower Colorado Regions. For the Lower <br />Colorado Region, Mr. Boh Johnson provided an update on the status of the Yuma <br />Desalting Plant, the Report to Congress, and issues related to the salinity differential <br />pursuant to Minute 242. .Mr. Rick Gold, the Regional Director for the Upper Colorado <br />Region, provided an overview of anticipated river and reservoir operations and <br />implementation of salinity control projects in the Upper Basin. <br /> <br />The federal representatives provided an overview of the current and anticipated <br />federal expenditures related to salinity control. Specifically, these agencies included <br />Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture <br /> <br />II <br />