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Testing soil density on Dallas Creek Project A Plan Formulation Working Document was completed. which shows a feasible project. i.e., delivery at saline water for use at Ule Chevron Chemical Plant near Rock Springs. However, a decision on Reclamation's plan will not be made until Wyoming completes an independent review of current State, Soil Conservation Service, and Reclamation studies, which is expected by January 1984. Glenwood-Dotsero Springs Unit The proposed plan has been selected consist- ing of collecting brine from the Glenwood and Dotsero Springs and transporting the brine through a pipeline for disposal in evaporation ponds located near the Colorado-Utah border. Because of legal and other problems encoun- tered the report has been delayed 2 years until June 1986. Price-San Rafael Rivers Unit The contractor completed a draft of the verifi. cation activities report identifying salt loading mechanisms and prehminary water and salt budgets. The final alternative plans report was completed in October The winter stock watering option will probably be the recommended plan. This plan involves lining stock watering ponds and eliminating flow of water in the canals during the winter- time. The next most attractive plans were the use of saline water in binary cooling towers and use in the production of tar sands. Neither alternative plan is acceptable at this time due to unproven technology and uncertain indus- trial water demand Dirty Devil River Unit In July, the first public involvement newsletter was distributed. The Plan of Study and Prelimi- nary Findings Report (PFR) were completed and have been approved, The PFR showed the investigation was viable and that studies should continue. Geologic studies and field investigations of potential evaporation pond sites are underway: hydrologic data collection is continuing. The planning report is scheduled for February 1987 Meeker Dome Unit The Scott, James, and Marland abandoned test wells were cleaned and plugged. In October 1981. the contractor began a 1-year monitoring program to test results and Recla- mation has now been monitoring the plugged wells over a year and the results are still favor- able. The monitoring has indicated that the water levels in the observation wells have stabilized, A Preliminary Findings Report on results of the studies to date was completed. LaVerkin Springs Unit Because of renewed State and local interest. Reclamation reinitiated salinity studies in fiscal year 1983 to evaluate a new concept for divert- ing the saline springs to clay-lined evaporation ponds. Detailed studies are continuing to specifically address downstream Virgin River effects on salt removal estimates and to revise the costs of evaporative ponds for selected liner materials. Lower Virgin River Unit This is an investigation of a potential salinity control and water supply project that would encompass the Lower Virgin River Basin. extending tram 14 miles above Littlefield Springs in Arizona to the high waters of Lake Mead. Nevada. Large amounts of salts from saline springs and agricultural waste water enter the Lower Virgin River. The investigation has been inactive since the concluding report was finished. 9