WSP06548

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 9/5/1979
• Author: PSIAC
• Title: Minutes of the 79-2 Meeting - September 5-6 1979
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
CORPS OF ENGINEERS
SEMIANNUAL REPORT
(January- J,une 1979)
TO PACIFIC SOUTHWEST INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE
FOR 79-2 MEETING

CONSTRUCTION 'PROGRAM:

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1. New Melones Dam, California. The dam was dedicated on 14 July 1979,
Arrangements for the formal transfer of project to the USBR for O&M are
being made; the transfer is tentatively scheduled for 22 August 1979.
New Melones Dam, Spillway and Intake Structure were jointly inspected by the
District and Bureau of Reclamation on 27 and 28 June 1979. The contract
for this portion of the project is 99 percent complete. Powerhouse contract
is essentially complete with generators No.1 and No.2 "on line" in June
1979. Basic operational tests are completed and only minor changes remain
to be done. Land acquisition program for New Melones Project upstream of
the dam is 99 percent complete. Approximately six small tracts remain to be
acquired in the upper reaches of the reservoir. Parrotts Ferry Road contract
was completed in June 1979.

California. Construction of the dam and
e outlet tunnel excavation
and embankm~nt placement are in progress. Completion of the dam is now
scheduled for April 1983. On 20 October 1978, a contract for the fish
hatchery was awarded. Completion date for the fish hatchery is Fall of
1980.

3. Walnut Creek Flood Control Project, California. The placement of the first
phase, 1,750 feet of rock-lined trapezoidal channel, on Lower Pine Creek was
completed in 1978. A portion of the second phase, concrete lining to the
Clayton Road crossing, is under construction. Work on the Design Memorandum
for the remaining reaches of Walnut' Creek is scheduled to start in November
1979.

4. Tijuana River, California. The construction contract was completed for
the U.S. part of the International Tijuana River flood control project for which
the Los Angeles District was the design and construction agent for the U.S.
Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission.

5. Cucamonga Creek Channel, California. The fifth construction contract
for Cucamonga Creek Channel, Ontario International Airport to Foothill
Boulevard, and Cucamonga Creek debris basin was initiated.

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