Laserfiche WebLink
<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Adequacy of 1994 FEIR/EIR - All-American Canal <br /> <br />Last month it was reported that Reclamation had certified to DWR Director Tom Hannigan the <br />adequacy of the 1994 Record of Decision (ROD) for the All-American Canal Lining Project and further <br />certified that measures will be taken for replacement of incidental fish and wildlife values adjacent to <br />the canal forgone as a result of lining the canal on an acre- for-acre basis. <br /> <br />Included in this month's Board folder is a letter from IID to the California Department ofFish <br />and Game (CDFG), asking for similar certification from CDFG, in order to allow the appropriated State <br />funds to be expended on the Project. <br /> <br />Basin StateslTribes Discussions <br /> <br />Navajo - Gallup Water Supply Project <br /> <br />As a brief reminder, the State of New Mexico has proposed to transfer a portion of its Colorado <br />River apportionment from a diversion point in the San Juan River in the Upper Colorado River Basin <br />to places of use on the Navajo Indian Reservation located within the Lower Colorado River Basin and <br />the Rio Grande Basin. The transport of the water would be through a pipeline nearly 100 miles in <br />length. All of the water proposed for use in New Mexico would be a depletion of the Colorado River <br />at Lee Ferry, and would be charged against New Mexico's Upper Colorado River Basin apportionment. <br /> <br />New Mexico proposes to divert and transfer 31,353 acre-feet of San Juan River water. Of the <br />total amount, 16,300 acre-feet of diversion would be used within the Upper Colorado River Basin in <br />New Mexico; an additional 13,934 acre-feet would be transported and used within the Lower Colorado <br />River Basin in New Mexico; and finally, 1,119 acre-feet would be transported and used within the Rio <br />Grande Basin in New Mexico. <br /> <br />Included in the Board folder is a Resolution of the Upper Colorado River Commission, dated <br />June 19,2003, whereby the states of Colorado , New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming have expressed their <br />support for the proposed Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. <br /> <br />Proposed Lake Powell Pipeline Project <br /> <br />The Washington County Water Conservancy District, in Southern Utah, is investigating the <br />feasibility of delivering a portion of Utah's Upper Basin's apportionment of Colorado River water, via <br />a pipeline, from Lake Powell to Washington County, which is located within the Lower Colorado River <br />Basin in Utah. The project would require that Lake Powell water be pumped through a pipeline about <br />120 miles and terminate at the existing Sand Hollow Reservoir, about 10 miles east of St. George, Utah. <br /> <br />Included in the Board folder is a Resolution of the Upper Colorado River Commission, dated <br />June 19,2003, whereby the states of Colorado , New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming have expressed their <br />support for the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline Project. <br /> <br />6 <br />