WSP07577

• File Number: 8273.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agencies - Bureau of Reclamation
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/1/1982
• Author: DOI BOR
• Title: Salinity Update - April 1982 - A Quarterly Report on the Colorado River Water Improvement Program
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Nick Mezei-Glen-Oot Team
leader

Nick Mezel IS the planning engineer In
charge 01 the GlenWQOd-Dotsero Springs
Unit !n thIs capaCity, he directs the plannn"19
learn and subteam meetings, coordinates
planning actiVities, directs the public
In'iOl~menl program. and provIdes
coordination WI!hlhe contractor
Nick. whO Immigrated to Amenca from
Hungary In 1957, graduated from the New
Jersey Institute 01 Technology In 1971 wllh a
BS degree In CI"'ll engineering While
working tor a consulting firm and later tor a
New Jersey township, he worked on hiS MS
degree whiCh he received In 1975 Nick
began his employment With Reclamation In
1978 as a planning engll'(~r at the Grand
Junction PrOJ€cts Offlce
In hiS \eJsure time Nick enjoys gardening.
photography, and Spending liIne With his
family.

Grand Valley Un~

The laterals that are undef constructIOn In
the Stage One area (about 40 percent of the
Stage One areal are scheduled lor
complellonby Apnl1 Therelssomeconcem
they may not be finished until ~y 1
Reclamation IS won..mg With the waler users
to mInimize lhe eHects if the lalerals am not
completed on SChedule
Also In the Grand Valley area,
advertIsements lor btds have ~n made for
the water screens, automatic radial gate
checks. and raising and covenng the
measuremenl wells Reclamalion also has
been working Wlttl the water users to remove
defiCiencies associated wlth the recently
constrvcted canal lining, I e .lOwenng the lops
on the constant nead onl,ces

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Legislation Introduced to Clean

up Colorado River

SenaIOf Wilham l Armstrong. and 14 co-
sporlSOfS trom lhe seven ColOrado River
BasIn states, Introduced a bill March 15. 1982
to clean up the ColoradO River The
proposed Ieglslalion (52202) will amend
PubliC Law 93-320 and was develOped by the
Colorado River ~n Sahn.ty Control Forum
The bill has lour obfE'Cllve5
- To authOnze SOl new sahnlty control uhllS
leach 10 be construCled Within the 1974
Sallhlty Control Acts spt'l1dlng hmlts)-three
In Colorado 5lhbad Valley In "-'tesa County
(BlM prOpOSal), lower GunnIson BaSlnnear
r.~trose. and McElmo Crt?€k In Montezuma
County AlSO authonzed would be one umt In
Ulan. the Uinta Basin and one unit In
Call1omla the Palo Verde Imgatloo Dtstnct,
and one unit would authonze troe Intenor

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Department to work on new technologl€!S lor
USing or dlsposmg of sahne waler

- To Improve the large network; 01 canal
ana lateral systems, With all OOSl$ but
pollullon fE'ductlOO 10 be funded by the
wateNJSers wf10 benefit
- To replace wl!dhleorotherenwonmental
benefits whlcn may be Impaired when tile
aoove prOJeCts are constructed. lor example,
~rtOfTT1 remedial wOrk; Ofl nearby wlldhte
habitats whlcn may dry up when canals are
lined to pm~l seepage Into saline SOIlS
-To authOnze a YOluntary oolarm program
to Improve walE'r management and
conservation eHartS, while reducmg SOli
erOSion

The IeglslatlOO has t).;>en endorsed by the
seven ColOrado River Bas,n governors and
lentatlvely approved by the Reagan
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