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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I I <br /> <br />Chapter III <br />plan Formulation <br /> <br />Reclamation's plan Formulation Activities <br /> <br />Prior to consideration of the combined Reclamation/SCS project, Reclamation <br />had independently evaluated eight alternative plans for reduction of salt <br />loading in the Price-San Rafael study area. These alternative plans were <br />compared against a future without the project condition. Among these <br />alternative plans, the following concepts were considered: irrigation <br />improvements (canal lining, winter water replacement, improving canal <br />management), using drain water for powerplant cooling, drain water treatment <br />of disposal, drain water for other industrial use, selective withdrawal and <br />treatment or disposal of saline river water, retirement of farmland and use of <br />freshwater for other beneficial uses, and use of drain water for a coal slurry <br />pipeline. <br /> <br />Of these plans, Reclamation had tentatively selected an irrigation improvement <br />plan as the recommended plan. This plan consisted of removal of winter water <br />from canals and elimination of stockwater pond seepage through stockwater pond <br />lining and expansion of existing culinary water systems to provide winter <br />stockwater. Additionally, some new stockwater ponds would be constructed and <br />lined. Implementation of this plan would result in a salt load reduction of <br />about 21,800 tons per year at an average cost of $29 per ton of salt removed. <br /> <br />0(1-6 " <br />Jl .:..U <br /> <br />III-l <br />