WSP04572

• File Number: 8271.300
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - General Information and Publications-Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1981
• Author: R Evans W Walker
• Title: Optimizing Salinity Control Strategies for the Upper Colorado River Basin -- Part 1 of 2 - Title page - 186 -- Abstract - Bibliography
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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(1) To delineate the regions in which salinity control
projects should be implemented to achieve the
maximum salinity reductions for various levels of
available funding;

(2) To evaluate the best salinity control policies as
functions of alternative water development sce-
narios in the basin, i.e., interbasin transfers,
energy industry developments, and expanded agri-
cultural diversions;

(3) To determine the impact of state and federal
policies on the costs of Upper Basin salinity
management plans; and

(4) To assess the sensitivity of the derived optimal
policies to assumptions regarding the physical
nature of the salinity system, and costs of
alternative control measures, and the effective-
ness of salinity control programs.

SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION

The salinity problem in the Colorado River Basin is

characteristic of arid and semi-arid river systems approach-

ing conditions of full water resource development. Several

years of intensive research and demonstration of alternative

salinity control technologies have yielded results which

should be applicable throughout the river basins in the

western united States as they reach full development. The

Colorado River salinity control program, therefore, might be

expected to serve as a model for future efforts elsewhere.

One major aspect of the Colorado River Basin salinity

problem has not heretofor been addressed. An analysis

integrating the existing information concerning alternative

salinity control measures into a basin-wide policy for water

quality improvement has not been made. It was necessary to

take the final step in developing salinity control technology