WSP01718

• File Number: 8210.140.20.A
• Description: Colorado River - Colo River Basin - Orgs/Entities - CRBSF - California - Colo River Board of Calif
• State: CA
• Date: 12/14/2004
• Author: Gerald Zimmerman
• Title: Executive Directors Monthly Report to the Colorado River Board of California
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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River and Salton Sea, Additionally, the newsletter describes several proposed projects
that are to be considered by the Salton Sea Advisory Committee.

Lower Colorado Water Supplv Proiect (LCWSP)

Status of the Lower Colorado River Water Supply Project

The City of Needles (Needles) is continuing to execute subcontracts with the
Lower Colorado Water Supply Project (LCWSP) beneficiaries to receive Project water.
As of December 81b, 474 subcontracts in the amount of 1,829 acre-feet of water per year
for current and for future use have been forwarded to potential applicants for execution,
Of this total 479 acre-feet is for current use and 1,350 acre-feet is for future use. To date,
344, or 72,6 percent, of the subcontracts have been executed and returned to Needles.

With respect to the Hexavalent Chromium VI contamination at the PG&E Topock
Gas Compression Station site I can report that PG&E started pumping groundwater in
March 2004 in an effort to create a reverse gradient to prevent the contaminated
groundwater from flowing toward the Colorado River. PG&E also started an on-site
pump and treatment program at the gas compressor station on May 1,2004. As of the
end of November 2004, the total volume of groundwater pumped is approximately 12.1
million gallons, or 37.0 acre-feet. Currently, PG&E has an executed LCWSP subcontract
for 280 acre-feet (200 for current use and 80 acre-feet for future use) per year with the
City of Needles,

Advance Delivery

The Board recently received a letter, dated November 23,2004, from Mr. Richard
Rowe, City Manager of the City of Needles. The Needles Board of Public Utilities had
requested that the City of Needles staff schedule a special meeting with the Public
Utilities Board and City Council on December 14, 2004 to review the status of the
Advance Delivery agreement and its related agreement for the water quality maintenance
trust fund, In his letter, Mr. Rowe asked that I attend the meeting and provide additional
infonnation and answer questions regarding the advance delivery concept and the
LCWSP. However, due to scheduling conflicts, the meeting has been rescheduled for
December 28, 2004.

WATER QUALITY

Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Moab, Utah, UMTRA Project Site
A vailable for Public Review and Comment

The U,S, Department of Energy (DOE) recently released a draft EIS associated
with the proposed remediation project at the Moab, Utah, uranium mill tailings site. The
draft EIS describes a proposed project to clean up the surface contamination at the site
and implement a groundwater remedial action program. DOE will hold a series of public

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