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C',J t-. ~, c-,., ,:,~\ r.,,",,~> (, Also, on March 30, responsibility for operation of completed project facilities, including scheduling and delivery of water, was transferred to the Central Arizona Water Conservation District under a 1983 contract between Reclamation and the District. The District also maintains completed portions of the aqueduct under thjs contract. Djversions from the Colorado River into the CAP aqueduct are currently averaging more than 500 cubic feet per second, or more than 326 million gallons of water per day. Ten entities -- 4 municipalities and 6 agricultural districts -- are currently taking water deliveries. Systemwide, the deliveries are approaching 600 cubic feet per second, or approximately 378 milljon gallons of water per day. Deliveries from the system are expected to rise to about 1,000 cubic feet per second, or one-third of system capacity, by mid-June, and remain at this level throughout the summer. Current projections are that the project will djvert about 500,000 acre- feet of water from the Colorado River this year, and about 360,000 acre-feet of that amount will be delivered to water users. A total of 14 entities are projected to receive CAP water this year. About 95 miles of the canal, from Bouse Hills pumping plant to Hassayampa Pumping Plant, is now being operated automatically by the control center computer. Every hour, the computer "reads" data from the operating system features, then automatically sets the check structure and turnout gates to maintain required water depths in the canal and meet turnout flow demands. Automatic operation of the 70-mile sectjon of canal between Hassayampa and Salt-Gila Pumping Plants will begin soon. c REGULATORY STORAGE DIVISION (PLAN 6) NEW WADDELL DAM -- Construction of the first 4 miles of the Waddell Canal, which will deliver water from the Granjte Reef Aqueduct to New Waddell Dam, is essentjally complete. Construction of the new Castle Hot Springs and Park Access Roads, whjch will replace the current access road to Lake Pleasant Regional Park, is about 91 percent complete; the road will open as the new access pOint to the park by the end of this month. The other primary activity at the dam site, placement of a concrete cutoff wall through two buried alluvial channels in the foundation area of the dam, is about 60 percent complete. STEWART MOUNTAIN DAM -- Excavation activjties are underway on the right abutment of the dam following award of a Maricopa County Highway Department contract for realignment of a curve on the Bush Highway just downstream of the dam. The County will use 250,000 cubjc yards of material from the area in the road realignment. When modification of the dam begins under Bureau of 3 of 4