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<br /> .' <br /> , <br />.' 'lr. <br /> ~ <br /> - <br /> In <br /> .- <br /> - <br /> <br />money for construction. The CWCB selected Boyle Engineering Corporation to conduct the <br />present study to provide the CWCB with the additional information required to make a decision <br />about the technical and financial feasibility of a project. <br /> <br />PHASE ONE STUDY <br /> <br />The current San Miguel Project Study was initially proposed as a detailed, feasibility-level <br />analysis of the recommended program of improvements and expansions to the existing study <br />area irrigation systems as outlined in the 1985 Rescoping Study. A draft plan of study was <br />developed and meetings were held with the Board of Directors of the SMWCD to discuss the -- <br />scope of this study. From these meetings, it was apparent that local study participants desired <br />to expand the scope of the Phase One portion of the study to examine alternatives to the <br />recommended project in the 1985 study. <br /> <br />A number of alternative projects were formulated to provide a range of potentially viable <br />concepts. The water yields and costs of these alternative project configurations were evaiuated <br />at a reconnaissance-level of detail. The reconnaissance-level of effort was intended to provide <br />preliminary, conceptual analyses to distinguish the major differences between alternatives and <br />to provide a preliminary indication of feasibility for each alternative. <br /> <br />The project alternatives in this study resulted from a process of identifying, analyzing and <br /> <br />screening a large number of potential improvements of the three major water supply systems in --- <br /> <br />the study area. A total of approximately seventeen reservoir sites, fifteen new or enlarged <br /> <br />canals, seven new or improved stream diversions and several ideas for ground water <br /> <br />development were evaluated and reviewed with local water users during the course of the <br />study. Altogether, some 56 structural facilities and alternative sources of water were identified <br />as potential project elements. The exhaustive nature of the reconnaissance investigation of <br />structural components was essential in building acceptance of the non-structural components. <br /> <br />4 <br />