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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />approximately 150,000 tons of salt each year to the <br />Colorado River. Approximately 28 percent of the Muddy <br />Creek salt load, 24,200 tons per year, comes from springs <br />~ in Hanksville Salt Wash and Emery South Salt Wash. <br />~ The recommended plan was to reduce the salinity of the <br /><0 Dirt,. Devil River and Colorado Rivers by collecting saline <br />-J spring water in Hanksville Salt Wash and Emery South Salt <br />Wash and disposing of it through deep well injection. <br />Collection would be accomplished by pumping surface and <br />ground water from shallow wells. Using this method of <br />disposal would reduce the salt contribution to the Colorado <br />River by 20,900 tons annually. The only alternative to the <br />recommended plan is no action. The final report will be <br />completed in 1987. <br />Because State of Utah Water Law may not permit the <br />approval of a water right for well injection, the Forum <br />recommended the study not continue into advanced planning <br />at this timi: Reclamation terminated field activities in <br />]985. <br />Glenwood-Dotsero Sprin~s (Reclamation). The <br />Glenl<ood-Dotsero Springs unit is located along t'he Colorado <br />River in Eagle, Garfield, and Mesa Counties in west-central <br />Colorado. Combined discharges from a number of springs <br />annually contribute approximately 440,000 tons of salt, <br />mostly sodium chloride. <br />The recommended plan consists of collecting both <br />surface and subsurface. salt water at Dotsero, transporting <br />it in a gravity flow pipeline to Glenwood Springs where <br />additional surface and subsurface salt water would be <br />collected and added to the Dotsero salt water. The water <br />would then be piped through a gravity pipeline to <br />evaporation ponds at the Colorado-Utah border. <br />The current plan is not as cost effective as other <br />units presently included in the plan. For these reasons, <br />and because of unresolved water rights issues, the Forum <br />recommended that studies on this unit be discontinued at <br />this time. A planning report concluding the study was <br />released in April 1986. <br />LaVerkin Sprin~s (Reclamation). During the past 20 <br />years, this unit, located in south western Utah, has been <br />studied extensively with several reports being produced. <br />The latest, a Preliminary Findings Report, August 1984, <br />recommended the study be discontinued because of poor cost <br />effectiveness. <br />Palo Verde Irrigation District (Reclamation and <br />USDA). The Palo Verde Irrigation District (PVID) is a <br />privately aeveloped district in Riverside and Imperial <br />Counties, California. Water for irrigation is diverted <br />from the Colorado River at the Palo Verde Diversion Dam and <br />is conveyed through 295 miles of main canals and laterals <br />to serve approximately 91,400 acres of irrigated land <br /> <br />-39- <br /> <br />J, <br />