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~ - r- - <: (. ~ ~ RECEIVED f /.t. OCT 3 0 '89 COLOI1A00 WATER CONsmvATlON E:.lARrJ f . . Announcement Public Meeting in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on Proposed DesalinationjPower Generation Facility The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) will hold a public meeting on Thursday, November 2, 1989, at 7:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 51359 U.S. Highway 6&24 in Glenwood Springs. At the meeting, the private project sponsors will describe the proposed project and Reclamation representatives will be requesting input from the public on significant issues and concerns to be addressed in the Environmental Assessment which we are preparing. The proposed project, consisting of a power generation facility fueled by natural gas, a saline spring collection system, brine desalination plant, and a salt-disposal facility, would be constructed adjacent to 1-70 at Devereux Road. The facility would collect and remove up to 70,000 tons of salt per year from saline springs in the Glenwood Springs area which are contributing approximately 174,000 tons of salt annually to the Colorado River. The project's power generation facility would produce and sell about 25 MW of power to Public Service Company of Colorado under an existing power purchase contract. Saline spring water would be collected from springs along the colorado River. Waste heat from power generation would drive a closed evaporative desalination system to remove the salt. The removed salt would be marketed by the sponsors. The distilled water produced by desalination would be returned to the Colorado River. A cooperative agreement was signed on October 23, marking the beginning of a joint venture between Reclamation and the Sponsors to lower salinity levels in the river as a part of the Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program. For more information about the project, please call Mike Baker at the Bureau of Reclamation in Grand Junction, Colorado, (303) 248-0637.