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<br />:/ <br /> <br />Oll25J3 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />'/ <br />j <br />I,.. <br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Advanced delivery concept - Efforts are continuing with the coneept of advanee delivering <br />Project water. A Technieal Committee, made up of ageney representatives, met to discuss <br />the issue of water quality over the life of the welI field. It was agreed that the eoncept of <br />advanced delivery of Project water would be beneficial to the Project and should continue to <br />be progressed fOIWard. The Committee requested that certain principals be developed for <br />forbearanee and payback as well as establishing criteria for water quality. <br /> <br />. Miscellaneous - Included in the Board folder is a copy of a letter to the Gas Company from <br />Reclamation informing it that its surplus contract for 100 acre-feet of Colorado River water <br />has been terminated and recommended that it contract for LCWSP water before the end on <br />2003. <br /> <br />WATER QUALITY <br /> <br />California Regional Water Oualitv Control Board - Colorado River Basin Region <br /> <br />Pacific Gas & Electric Topock Gas Compressor Station <br /> <br />Last month the Board diseussed the existence of a hexavalent ehromium groundwater plume <br />migrating towards the Colorado River from PG&E's Topock Gas Compressor station located 15 miles <br />southeast of Needles, California and the intent of the California Regional Water Quality Control <br />Board-ColOJado River Basin Region (CRWQCB) to issue a Draft Cleanup and Abatement Order. <br /> <br />Included in the Board folder is various correspondence from PG&E, CRWQCB, and the <br />Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) regarding the groundwater contamination at the <br />PG&E Topock site and who should be the administering agency overseeing the cleanup. The DTSC <br />has been working with PG&E since 1996, investigating the chromium groundwater plume and <br />identifying remedial technologies to clean up the groundwater. <br /> <br />On August 8th, after receiving assurance from the DTSC that the DTSC will work with PG&E <br />to expedite cleanup action at its Topock site, the CRWQCB agreed to withdraw its draft Cleanup and <br />Abatement Order and allow the Department of Toxic Substance Control to be the administering <br />agency for implementing the cleanup of the site. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />Gerald R. Zi <br /> <br /> <br />II <br />