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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8210.140.20
Description
Colorado River Basin Organizations and Entities - Colorado River Basin States Forum - California
State
CA
Basin
Western Slope
Date
1/1/1980
Author
Myron B Holburt
Title
Annual Report for the Calendar Year 1979
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Annual Report
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<br />. "',':- <br />LU ..Jl. <br /> <br />encourage conservation, and provide <br />it with authority to gradually increase <br />rates leading to parity with average <br />utility rates in the area by year 2000. <br /> <br />Upper Basin Del.'elopments <br /> <br />The Board's staff reviewed and <br />commented on the Draft <br />Environmental Statement on the <br />Anima5-laPlat,) Project, <br />Colorado-New Mexico. This is one <br />of the five projects authorized by tht. <br />Colorado River Basin Projfft Act of <br />1968. The slatf'ment concludes that <br />the project will result in an 18 <br />milligrams per liter increase in salinity <br />at Imperial Dam. The staff <br />commented thai the salt load from <br />irrigation and from the reservoirs will <br />probably be higher than indicated in <br />the statement and requested that this <br />matter be reexamined. <br />Upon request of the Water and <br />Power Resources Service, the staff <br />made a review of a dran report on <br />the Meeker Dome $,llinit}' Control <br />Unit in northwestern Colorado. The <br />study considerE'd the source and <br />quantity of salt discharged from <br />Meeker Dome and a number of <br />control alternatives. <br />The staff reviewt'd the draft, "U.S. <br />Department of Agriculture Salinity <br />Report, U;ntah Basin Umt, Utah," and <br />submitted comments to the Utah State <br />Conservationist. The report was <br />prepared as part of the basinwide <br />salinity control program to study the <br />effects of on-farm improvements on <br />irrigation efficipncies and river salinity. <br />The Commissioner of the Watpr <br />and Power Resources Service <br />approved the Definite Plan Report for <br />the ParJdo_ Valle.' Salimt.' Control <br />Unit in western Color ado and the <br />unit's Environmental Impact Statement <br />was filed with the Council on <br />Environmental Quality, thus placing <br />the unit officially under construction. <br />The Water and Power Resources <br />Service awarded two contracts <br />totaling $24.9 million for construction <br /> <br />of pumping plants, laterals and <br />collector drains on the /Vavajo Indian <br />l"'Elation Project in New Mexico. <br />A $14.9-million contract was <br />awarded for Stage 1 construction of <br />Ridgway Dam on the Oalla.~ Creek- <br />Project, Colorado, <br />An Sl1.S-million contract was <br />awardE'd for the construction of the <br />Vat Diversion Dam and West Fork <br />Pipeline, features of the Bonne~'I'/Ie <br />Umt of the Central Utah Project. Two <br />additional contracts, totaling $4.0 <br />million, wt'(e awarded for <br />construction of recreation roads and <br />facilities for the Strawberry Reservoir <br />Recreation Area. <br /> <br />lower Basin Developments <br /> <br />b.cavation of the 6.8-mile-long <br />Buckskin Mountain Tunnel, a major <br />feature of the Central Arizona Projf'Ct <br />tCAPl was completed. The \\'ater <br />and Power Resources Service <br />awarded two other CAP contracts-a <br />$H.5-million contract for construction <br />of the Ha5.y.vampa Pumping Plant <br />and a SlO.9-million contract for <br />equipment to be installed at the <br />Has5JyampJ, little Harquahala ,wd <br />Bouse Hills pumping plants_ Also <br />awarded was an S18.3-million <br />contract for construction of a <br />13'h-mile reach of the CAP's Cr,Jnite <br />Reef Aqueduct. <br />Thrf;'e contracts, totaling S 15,8 <br />million, werE' awarded for <br />construction of pumping plants and <br />switchyards and for furnishing and <br />installing pumping units, related <br />equipment and a computer control <br />system on the Second Stage of the <br />Southern ,"PI'ada n~ter Project. <br />A S6,6-million contract was <br />awarded for relocating and lining 6'h <br />miles of main canal on the Colorado <br />Ril'er Indian Rese,,-ation surrounding <br />the town of Parker, Arizona. <br /> <br />I"-'eather ,\1odJ/ication Actil<ities <br /> <br />The \Vater and Power Resources <br />Service continued its planning on the <br />Colorado Riwr \Veather '-1odification <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />Demonstration Project. The Board <br />supported write-in appropriations for <br />this project in 1977 and 1978. The <br />Administration now recognizes the <br />value of this program and included it <br />as a line item in the 1980 fiscal year <br />budget in the amount of $215,000 plus <br />carryover funds from previous fiscal <br />years. <br />The Board's staff reviewed and <br />commented on the draft report <br />"Conceptual Plan to Develop Water <br />Augmentation by Weather <br />Modification in the Colorado River," <br />prepared by tht' Service. In its <br />comments tht' staff recommended an <br />expansion of the report's discussion of <br />the Congressional directives to the <br />Secretary of the Interior regarding his <br />responsibilities to augment the <br />Colorado River and Congressional <br />recognition that weather modification <br />should be studied as a possible <br />augmentation source. In addition, the <br />staff commented that reference should <br />be made in the final report to the <br />1968 Colorado River Basin Project Act <br />wherein Congress declared that the <br />satisfaction of the Mexican Water <br />Treaty obligation from the Colorado <br />River constitutes a national obligation <br />....,hich should be the first obligation of <br />any Woller augmentation project. <br />The draft report contains a schedule <br />showing that the program does not <br />plan for firm conclusions to be drawn <br />as to the overall feasibility of weather <br />modification as an a~:.:;mentation <br />source until the year 1998. This date <br />is much too late in considering the <br />many water.supply-related decisions <br />that will have to be made in the next <br />several years; accordingly, the staff <br />recommendE'd that the program be <br />revist"d as necesSdry and rescheduled <br />so that resuhs from the program <br />would be available by the mid. 1980's, <br />if possible. <br /> <br />Vegetation .\1andftemenr for <br />Increased I \I"'ter rield <br /> <br />The Boord received a cop~' of th{' <br />final report entitled, "Vegetation <br />Management for Water Yield <br />Improvement in the Colorado River <br />Basin," prepared by the U.s. Forest <br />
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