Saline Water Use
Report
Completed
Most of the current stnuctura• methods of salm•tycontrol. such as desaltmg and lined e-aporatlon ponds. are provmg expens"'e compared to •rr'93ll0n 1mprovements. Th•s report explores benefic•al uses of sal me water and 1nnova~ve measures to reduce salinity concentratoons at lmpt,.al Dam
A.n appraosal study was omt•ated 1n May 1980 to study tha opportumlies of collectmg saline waters 1n the Colorado R1ver Bason lor use'"
-rgy
production The study has two thrusts thetnvest•gatoon of usmg saline water for energy development and the feaSibility of a ptpeltM collect•on and dosposa system fO< saline water and other collected wastewaters. such as w~srgwarer fCQJD.__pnW•rp!!!..'!!'! ~nd oil shale develOpment
The report presents •nnovat•ve anematove plans for collecting. trealing. and transporting saline water for energy
develOpment use or dosposal 1n the ~ Rtv<!r Bastn. The conc..pts
develOped are cons•dered alternalives to conventoonal structural salin•ty control methods wh•ch mvolve lined
evapora!ton ponds and desa. r>at10n plants.
nw.
benehctal useotsa••newater would m•t•gate the depletion 1mpact of removal of saline water from the nver system by structura contrOlsAbout 250.000 acre-feet per year of saline water could be collected 1n the Upper Bas•n for disposal or for use in
energy
d<>velopment-for cooltng coal-l•red powerplants and foruse
1n slurry lines wh•ch transport coal. Of special concern 1n the study are legal and U'IStJtuhona environmental. and cost-Shanng ~ues
In order 10 meet tho overall salintty control ob1ective for the Basm.
approx,nat81y 2.8 moll10n tons of salt per year'"'' have to be removed frnm the n\ler system All irngat•on amprovement measures and other cost-eHectlve contrOls
as
presently envosooned Will remove only about 1 2 nilliOn tons peryear. Hence. the annual capture and removal of an addotoonal1.6 mtllion tons us•ng other structural controls or conceptual plans outl•ned •n the special report. w11i be necessary to meet the basic program obtlCiives
The total water volume considered as potenlial sources for use or disposal tS 610.000 acre-feet of saline water averagong about 3200 mg/L of TDS wh•ch carroes 2.6 m•lhon tons of salt per year About 42 potenttal powerplant and synfuel facility Sites 1n the Bas•n were screened for sahne water use In view of the potenttal saline water supply available, a s•zable POfloon of the pro)8Cted future water requtrement for energy developme< ol 1n the Bas•n could be met
Pre11monary costo are developed for selected alternahvos and the ani!!Jis•s shows favorable co-.t·etfect•vet'•"!SS compan..ons with a...rrer'lt structural control measures (base case) A cost-shanng analySIS addresses the most promos&ng alternatives of local use by powerplants and
a
coat slurry pipelineThe development of altemat•ve concepts was a•ded by several public part1Cip8li00 meet1ngs InVOlVIng representatives from the Bas•n States energy development mterests. and the envtronmental commumty. The alternatoves can be grouped into two ma,or categones local use for energy develoP""'"' and long dostanc"' transport for uso and 'or d<sposal
Potent1al benehc1al uses of saline water are found '" both the lOCal use and export alternat•ves Two benehc•al use
cases
were studied to establish the general level of sav•ngs '" 101nt development w1th pr•vate •ndustry Detaoled econom•c analyses -re not anempted '" these cases sonce new technology, vanable market conditions. and lack of data lomoted the depth of the •nveshgation. The most prom•s•ng benehctal use caS8S appear to be: 1. Local use of saline water for power plant cooling In this case. the umt costs of water supply presently facmg utdnteS were est•mated to denveU.S.
Depew
biiWII ol the Interior
Bureau ol Reclemetlon
A
Que...,
AepiNt on the
Colorado
Aller Water Quellly
Improvement Program
October 1981
monetary cred•IS that could occur •f saline water werP $Old to uhhhes ~ •ncremental costs to the user of saline water for cooling tn place of eltemate freshwater sources were constdered •n the estimated cred•l
2 A coal slurry ptpeline carrymg 50 or 100 million tons of coat per year to southern Californ•a using saline water
as
the transport rned•um In thos case. the pnmary cost saw>gs are denved from prov1d1ng a p1pel•ne collect1on system and reliable water supply source for coal transport
The followtng tabUlat•on summanes the net cost-eHect•veness estimates for the most promiS•ng alternatives developed '" th•s study. Comparat•ve esumat<>saredoSPiayed lor the base case and long d•stance ptpeline transport alternatives. wh1ch stretch beyond the present range of acceptable cosr -eflectoveness. The net Federal cost· effectiveness estimates are very prelim mary and sub1ectto changmg. site-sensttive conchtlons However, the
ranges of dtsp4ayed costs do g•ve encouragement tor more spectf•c study of the local use and coat slurry transport cases
Addolional study os needed to adequately analy>e the potenttat of compos1te allernat•ve plans. These allernattvos could combtne and optim•ze the dofferent CO<Oponents and uses of sal ne water Composote plans could onclude local use, wastewater disposal. coal slurry pipeliMS, salt gradient pond• and other energy-related
uses
Overall planmng would integrate these vanous components 1nto Basm-w•de plans that would 1ncfude staged development dependtng on the needs of the vanous energy projeCts
Several issues end concerns w•lt ha.,. to be addressed •n the cont1numg study retaling to water nghts. compact allocattons. sal
.n.,
..,.ter use technology env1ronmental .rnpacts. •nst•tuttonal arrangements. and linanc•al•mpltcat•ons. Water rights and compact allocat•ons IS a complicated ISSue whiCh •s be•ng addr8UOO by the Colorado
Potential
Alternative salt removal
(1 ,000 tons)
Base Case (desalttng
and evaporalton ponds) 1.600
Long O.stance Transport 768-1.975
Local USI' Total potential for 10 soles 878 LaVerlo.on Sprongs 103 McBmo Creek 60 Bog Sandy Rtver 98
Coal Slurry Popeline
tOO mtlloon tons of coat 531 50 mrUtOn tons of coal 183
Rl.rw-Basin.Slltnily Contrc• J'~um. Sat.ne water use technology tn coolmg powerplants processong and
transportong coal, and salt gradoent solar power generatoon is not fully developed or wodely accepted The onstotutional and fonanoal arrangements lor
llftpleme<>tong the opltO<>S consodered on thos study do not fit tradotoonal modes. but rather lend themselves to a un1quc partnershiP between the Federal Government and ondustry
The Specoal Report Exe.;utove Summary 15 avaolable by wrotong the ColOrado R1vcr Water Ouahly Office, 0·
1000. P 0 Box 25007 Denver. CO
80225 The complete repon woll be avaolable later for those who feel the need for more lechmcal and thorough d1scussoons of the concepts and alternaltves studied
Meeker Dome Plugg
i
ng
Appears Successful
Ground water levels are dechnmg after compleuon of the Phase I venhcatoon program The Scott and James Wells were cleaned tested. and plugged, and the Marland Well was cemented from a parallel hole
Mon•tonng will cont•nue to determ1ne
the overall success of the pluggong efforts.
TOS reduction Net Federal at Imperial cost-effectiveness Dam (mg/L) tn S mg'L per year
160 1 400.000-2.000.000 77-198 1.850.000 5.130.000
(range eshmated as
84 shown below 8 795.000 6 880000 8 519.000 50 260000 15 518.000
Ihe
.lv'leeker Dome sole of soveral abandoned w1ldca1 otl wells. is a localanloc nal uphfl "'northwestern
Colorado about 3 mtles east of the town of Meeker These 011 exploratoon wells penetrated deep pressurized salt water aquofcrs and w~re beheved to be
tnadoqualely plugged thus servong as
varttcal condutls, alloWing the saline
water 10 enter the upper formations of the dome
The Meeker Well was idenhhed as a sognofocant poont source of sahnoty to the Colorado R1ver system For many years 11 flowed 3 cubiC feet of water per second
whoCh contatned about 19.200 mg/L of tot&. diSSOlved sohds. conlnbutong approx.1mate1y 57 000 tons of salt 10 '""
rover each year The Bureau or
ReclamatiOn auempled 10 plug the well on 1968 In 1969 other wells began flowo·•g and surt.>ce seepage appeared
""'*
van able 81""H>Untsotsalt lransm•tted to the rtverBureau of Reclamatoon begnn active plannong studies early 1n 1979. w11h lh"
atd of a profess•ona1 semcescontractor
ThE Scoll. Jam.·s. and Marland We Is were believed to be unplugged or madequalely plugged and acting as condu11s. allow1ng saline water from subsurface geologocal lormallons to
poflut,... surfaef! aqu !ers and the Whtt~
Atver A venhcatton program was
lOC:8I UM Ol~iOf'l (Cieilhoerr . . . 100 ,.._IMM~
...__
omtoated to confirm thos hypotheSIS Thos program called for the cleaning. testing. and plugging of the Marland. Scou. and James Wells and the mstallation of a morutonng network to record char-ges in the flow and sahnoty ol surface seepage. The venfocallon program d1d not include any wor~ on the Meeker Well
After 1ns1alhng the monotonng network of observation wells and seep measurement stahons. the well bores of the Scoll and James Wells were cleaned. tested, and successfully plugged Because mator doff1cultoes were encountered 1n c1ean1ng the Marland Well bore. a parallel hole was drill<'d to
1360 feel An attempt was then mAde to
plug the well by hydraulically fnc.tunng
the formation usulQ a pressure
cemenlln rocedure from the nearby para e o e e succ s onmr pluggtng operatiOn wdl bP. unknown unto I the observation wells have been
monotored for a penod of time
Monitonng 1S contonutng to assess the results of the venhca110n program Substantoal changes on saline seep flOws have not l><><!n detected (as of August) but water le•ets'" I he Meeker Dome area have boon declimng s1nce the pluggtng was compiE'ted
Oetatled monrtonnq wtll contu·•ue to record observattOn w•~ 1 water leve-ls artd
flows of salone seeps and water samples w111 be collected lor water quality
evaluatton The drah v~nficatlon
program report os exp<"<:ted from ltle contractor by mod-September II Wilt explain the pluggong program. present conclUSIOns reached and make
recommendations for future act on
Contr
ac
t Awarded For
Feasibility Study On Big
Sandy R
i
ver Unit
Reclamahon awardood a S680.13v contract to a Denver form. A Sage Murphy and Associates. to invcshgale control methods of teducong salintty
concentrat•ons at lm• •nal Dam
resultong from sal ne contnbutoons from the Btg Sandy Rover Un11
The Bog Sandy Rover ongonates In the
mounu11ns of west central Wyomong and flows SOIJtherty to tt>e Bog Sandy ReseNOtr and Oam where
most
of thoflow IS doverted lor orngatJOn The rover annually discharges appro~unately
II 0.000 tons of dossotved sotods on the
reach und'lr study. correspandong to a salt concentratoon of 9 mgll atlmponal
Dam
lnYe$togatlons indicate that sahno seeps enter an aquofer(s) that orogonates near tho Bog Sandy ReseNOtr and eltlendS S('veral moles to the Bog Bend
a -on the Bog Sandy River The seeps diSCharge from theaqu•'er(sl alOng a 1!>-m le reach of the n ver Some excess orngatoon water that corculates below the
ground surface also contacts shale of tt>e Green Rover Formation Thos saline water enters the aquofer and eventually :-:-~--PS Into the Bo!J Saood,
A"'"
Energy companoes have ondocated an ontereston the use of B•g Sandy water for
coal-related energy development Reclllmatoon os onvestogatong off-farm methOdS of sahnoty control through a prolessoonat vorv•ces contract awarded on July 1981 on the amount of $680. t30
The coni• actor os expected to identoly benehcoal uses for sal one water as well as alternatove collectoon and dosposal plans A planning team and public onvotvement program have bef>n organ•zod to ass1st '" select,ng a recommended plan by the summer of 1982 The leasobohty repart os scheduled ftw ~nll\t t'\fl tn Nov-'TlbPr 1984
USDA Progress In Grand
Valley
The on-farm program for sahnoty control on the Grand Valley continues to
progress well The Agncultural Stabohzatoon and Conservatoon Servoce
!ASCS) olfoce at Grand Junction has forwarded 303 conservatoon
appllcatoons for conservat>On assostance to the Soil Conserva\100 Servoce (SCSI Plannong and desogn wor1< has boon completed by SCS on tt>ese apphcatoons and omplcmentatlon os pendong Forty
-lour pro1ects are under construction and
52 others are ready lor construction Some 142 practices have boon
completed The ASCS cost shares woth farmers on omprovements
Emery Johnson, SCS Oostnct
Conservatoonost. says "The conservahon 1mprovements we've made so far th1s foscal year woil reduco salt loadong by appro~imately 3500 tons per year "
Farmers have boon helped to onsta!l
70,750 teet of underground pipeline. 29,119 feet of concrete dttch hnong. and
22222 teet of gated pope dunng the forst 9 months of Foscal Year 1981.
Richard Wolco•. Lorna. Colorado. onstalled a cablegatoon (automated) system last spnng Thos IS the hrst cablegahon system onstall~'<l and 11 os beong closely monotorGd by Colorado State Unoversoty. the Agncultural Research Servoce (ARS), and by SCS.
Johnson says cabtegatoon looks to be
the most promosmg of the automated systems installed
Rochard Wolco• hkos the system. too
·rve
got the~~ orrogatoon system'" the Unoted States.· he proudly ctaomsCeblegatoon ,...,. developed by the
ARS at ots research Slatoon at Kimberly
Idaho. II uhlozes a PVC gated pope matenal whoch os •nstatrcd on or 1ust
below the soot surface Thos partocular
pope resists deterooratoon from sunlight
so 11 can be taod near the surface A battery powered plug travels onside tt>e pope, attach<ld to a cable whoch
controls the 5P"'O ot the plug Water
forces tt>e plug It\ rough the pope, and as ot passes a gate the vwater flows out As a
new
gate op<>ns ~n earloer gate shuts ott Ceblegatoon os lOw-cost compared to other automated systems Wolcox paodapproximately $4.000 tor materoals. He dod much or the onstallatoon himself.
One problem dod occur Scdoment buolt up behond the plug causong vaned flows of water outthe gates Technocoans
corrected thos by pUtting a hole on the ~ne every 60 teet to flush the system penOdocafly
A Chonese orngatoonteam from Pekong vosoted the Grand Valley on August an<! was ompressed woth what they saw
Johnson says the Chonese were
panocularly onterested on manag••ment techniques --how we irrigate wothout
brongong the water table onto the root zone and how ondovodual farmers and ent•re w;ttrrdt~tncts manage the1r water
1 he Chonese team spent one month tourmg trrogatoon prOfCCIS on Cehtornaa Arozona. Utah and Colorado They will
use thos knowledge to de
we
lOp a planto
lfi'IP{OYC 6 molloon hectares of saline SOt Is•n northN" Chma
SCS
,
Reclamation Start
CoordinateaProgram In Uinta
Basin
To prov•d•• bettercoordonatlon among Rectamatoon and SCS. reprMentatoves
from each are mee:mg to coordonate the ptannong elton on the Umta Basin water syst~ms omprovement program. The team woll meet on a regular ba' 1 and woth local water users to obtaon tl'cor ondovtduat onput about program development Rectamatoon and SCS believe that through a coordonated eltort such as thos. tt>ey can obtam dorect onpUt from the local water users and assure that they are representong the local Interests
Anyone mterested '" onformatoon about the water systems ompr.,_.,t program or woshong to provod
comments should contact the Utah Projects Olloce lor further ontormatoon
Write them at P.O. Box 1338, Provo, Utah 84601, or call Roe Allman at (801) 374 8610, extensoon 203
The Uonta Bason Unot study area os on
nonheastern Utah In Duchesne and Uontah Counties Reclamation's present study onvolving canal hnong os ltmolcd to on area of 104 200 orngated acres Addotoonal stud•<>S are scheduled lor the rem.un.ng 1rngated areAs at a ta1et' date
as return flows from orngated areas enter the Duchesne Rrver and 1ts tnbutanes The Uonta Bason and Ashley Valley contnbutes about 450.000 tons of salt annually to the Colorado Rover. much of •t from •rragated areas
There have been a senes of pubhc onformatoon meetongs held "' the towns of Duchesne and Roosevelt The meetongs were held to provode the general public with
an opportunity
to express the•r values and concerns regardong the Uonta Bason .,11ter systems omprovement program_ Publoc:comments Mve been oncorporated onto the plannong process. where applicable The plannong for the rehabohtation of the mam canals os at the lea.,boloty level Aulho<ozatoon for construc:toQn can only be granted by Congress Rec:lamatoon·s feasobohty report os scheduled for COfllRiehon on March 1983
In 1979, the Agncultural Stabohzatoon and Conservatoon ServiCe (ASCS) withon USOA rece•ve<l lunoong through the Agncultural ConservatiOn Program lor omplementatoon of onlarm
omprovements on land odentohed for salonoty control by the SCS These funds
enabled USDA to beg•n construction ahead of Reclamatoon ThecOO<donation commottee os desogned to assure that plans. desogns. and omplementahon
procedures of lho Federal agencies are mutually compatoble
lnfa<mahon prov>ded by SCS states that recent 1ntervwews wath 5P.vera1 farmers on the Uonta Bason reflect a posohve and enthusiastoc attotude toward the sahnoty program. A common e•pressoon was. •t
now
haYe a thord morewater
.·
or. 1can •rngate 1n a
fourth lesstome" Several saod they now need to learn more about when to orngate and how much water to apply
The Uonla BaSin Soot Conservalion Oostnct CSCD) os takong an actove part on the sahnoty program. They are now meetong twoce a month or as needed to revoew long 10rm agreemen1s and annual awhcatoons 1 hey have established sotne critena to mal<e the program benefi:S more U'l•form to the farmers and to encouraqe all farmers to make a
sognohcant inpul on the ,nstallatoon and management of theor systems The SCO Board and the two ASCS county commottees work very well IOgether SCO. ASCS. SCS relatoonshops are excellent· they are all workong toward a common goal
Reservoir Dynamics
Reclamalion is planmng to contract on los.cal year 1982 a two-dom.,nslonal reservoor mOdel of Lake P"well and possobly Lake Mead to omprove temperature and satonoty mOdeling capability tor reservoms.
Two-domensional reS<>rvoor modeling os necessary to more accurately pred ~t
salmoty levels throughout the systeM
The majOr reservoors tend to selectM>Iy route the hogh quality sprong runoff and trap the cold sahne wonler base flows
Wlilch
have greater densoty Thestrlarge seasonal vanahons an sahn•ty andtemperature prOduce densoty currents
which result'" s•gnificant honzontal and
vertocal total dossolved solids vanance on the reservoirs Two-dimensoonal reservoor modeling. together woth a compr-ehenSIYe reservou !Ampling program. should provide valuable data for more accurately pred1ctong sahnoty levels throughout the nvertroservoir system Thos study os scheduled to last 2
years
The questoon of evaporatoon redUctiOns
on
La~e Mead because of cooler releases from Glen Canyon Dam were evaluated by USGS ondReclamation on the mod-1960's These studoes estomated a reduc:toon of evaporation at La~e Mead to be awroxomately 100.000 acre-feet per year. However. these studoes were not conclusive, and thos issue is presently beong readdressed. One of the goals of thP two-d1mensoonal reservoor mOdel os to evaluate lhe effect on sallnoty and evaporatoon of changong the reservo•r wothdrawal elevation
A second and related effort os being funded through the Lower Colorado
Ro~r Water Conservatoon and Effoc:oent Use Program under the dorectoon of the
Lower Colorado Regoon Thos elton wolf onclude estabhshong a nelwork of meteorologo...,, statoons on Lake Mead reevaluatong the methOds used
hostoncally by the Geolog1cal Survey to calculate evaporation and performong an
appra•sal-t~vel~nvest•gat10n of the cost •mpacts and physocal poss•bohty of modofyong the Hoover ontake structures to wolhdraw water from the upper levels of Lake Mead
A thord effort was undertaken by Larry J Paulson of the Lake Mead
Ltmnologocal Research Center.
Unoversoty of N<!vada al Las Vegas Hos studoes were aomed at evaluatong the effect Lake Powell has had on reducong evaporatoon at Lake Mead. and on assessong the potentoal for reduc:ong evaporatiOn at La<e M.>ad lurther through a SUrface level Withdrawal at Hoover Dam ThlS. on lurn. would decrease satonoty Of the rover system
It os hopeful that these research undertakongs woll lead 10 sahnoty concentration reduct.ons at lmpenal Dam
Personnel-Here And
There
The Regooral O.rector for the Upper Colorado Regoon. N.W. (Bill) Plum-r. woll be leavong Salt Lake Coly after more than three years He woll assume the dulles of RegiOnal Oorec1or of the Lower Colorado Regoon on Boulder Coty,
Nevada Whole 8<11 was on offoce m&!Of satonoty control milestones have been
ach1eved. mcludmg construction stan on Grand Valley Unot
Eugene Hinds as transfernng from the Regoonal Oorector's posotoon on Boulder Coty. Nevada to assumf' the dutoes of Asststant Comm1sstoner for Plann•ng and Operatoons on Reclamatoon·s Washongton olfoce We are lookong forward t• work1ng W1th Gene .nth, omportant po: .. ti')O
Clifford I. Barrett woll take over as Regional Dorector on Salt Lake Coty after spendong many years in Washongton.
D.C He prevoously held the posuoon of AssiStant Comm.ssooner tor Plannong and Operatoons where he had d•rect
oversoght of Reclamatlon·s sahn•ty ed1tor is concerned) Greg works closely control actov1toes N1ce to have someone w1th Dave Memtt devetopmg programs
so knowledgeable of the program in this for the onterpretatlon of Lake Powell
key posotoon. sampling program This program can be
Clyde D. Geuel retired from the used lor other roservoors and Is being
Upper Colorado Regional Offoce documented lor use by other offices.
September 19. alter more than 40 years Greg has spent hundreds of hours at the of Government service Clyde has been CRT termon at
involved on the planning phases of the And last (but of course not least) is sahn1ty control program sonce •IS yours truly the edotor of th•s newsletter, begonn•ngs early in the 1970's Hos Patty Gillespie. A wroter-.dotor by experttse •n sahnlty matters w1ll be classofocat10n. 1 have served in varoous greatly m1SS41d capaCII18$ over a ••·year CIVIl servoce
Karl Klingelhofer, woth the Sod career on the Soot ConservatiOn Servoce,
ConservatiOn Servoce on Washongton, Federall Av•at10n AdmomstratiOn, and I D C. "'' I be ret•rong effective October 1. Bureau of Reclamation Whole efforts at
1981 Karl has been an actove partoc1pant thos publication are onlerestong
on the Sallnoty Control Interagency sometomesfrustratong,mostlyrewarding
Advosory Commottoe and the USDA expenences above all. the newsletter is advisor to the Forum's Work Group We YOUR publication Controbutoons from wosh Karl well 1n hiS new endeavors many. onctud1ng edotonal and other
New Colorado State Dorector for the comments. the aid of GPO typesetters ncu I ural Stabilization an<r _,.__,and pronters and the deslgner"iiiid-Conservatoon Serv1ce 11 lloyd layout artost. all make ''Sahnoty Update"
Sommerville Lloyd Is a Grand Valley what ot os Keep your an1cles comong. farmer who bnngs hrst hand knowlf'dge
of the onfarm sallnoty control programs
Fo
rum
Drafts
Leg
islation
to hiS new posot10n Lookong forward to As thos newsletter goo~ to press, fonal
wortong "'•th Lloyd revos10ns are beong mad< on" legoslative
Jim Ruc:h, formerly BLM State pacl<age to modoly Totle II of the O.reC1or •n Cahlornoa os the new BLM ColoradO R'""' Bason Sahnory Control Sei'VlCe Center Dorector on Denver Act Pubf1c Law 93·320 The B1ll has
The support staff 1n the ColOrado been developed by the ColOrado Rover
R1ver Wat~r Ouahty Otfoce has until Bason Sahnoty Control Forum and os now, rema1ned nameless Th<> backbone bemg ontroduced by Senator Boll of the olloce. and wothout whom the Armstrong ol Colorado w1th co-ollicecould not function. os Jean Oyer- sponsors from throughout the Bason. Secretary. travel assistant, draftsperson. Thos btll would authonze certaon budget assostant, "lack-ol-all olloce addohonal measures to assure requests." Jean os takong on addotoonal accornphshment of the ob1eCt1ves of
respons•bthtoes Tolle II ol PubliC Law 93·320 and for
tn order to take on these ad<!ltional other purposes The measure i~ needed responsobthtoes a pan·t•me clerk·typost. to ctanfy questoons related to the Carol Hall has been hored to 8SSISI Jean program and to resolve ossues woth SOfT1I' of th<> typ•ng lobng and assoc1ated woth expedohng program
receptiOniSt dulles Carol recently omplementat10n The measure was
moved to Denver from Boulder C1ty developed by the States of Anzona.
where she '*Orked on ReclamatiOn's Cahfornoa Colorado. Nevada, New
Lower Colorado Regoonal Office Mexoco. Utah and Wyornong actong
Another part-tome employee and a through the Forum representatoves of
student at Colorado School or Mones on the States Governors
Golden, Colorado. os Gregory A. Keller, The b1ll provodes for the lollowong: a computer whoz (at least as far as this 1 Condotoonal constructiOn
aufhonzatlon of SIX
new
unots· Stage I of the Lower Gunn1son Bason Unit and McEimo Creek Unot on Colorado: Stage I of the Uonta Bason Unot Utah. Palo Verde lrngahon District Unot. California(approximately 1 ~ of area): Saline Water Use and Dosposal Opportunoties Unot. and Son bad Valley Umt, Colorado
1 Bureau of Land Management umt)
2~ Prov•stons for contract•ng with
energy development ontetests that hold potential for cost~ffechve use of brack•sh and saline waters
3 Provos1ons whereby Interconnected canal and lateral systems that have partoal sahnoty benehts can be omproved and those related costs made a pan of the salinity control program
4 The protectoon ol valuable woldlife
resources.
5~ Implementation ol aJ.n!Se!!w!:... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Department of Agrocullure program
wh1ch takes full advantage of the capabohhes of Agnculture·s agencies on heu of the "programs ava•lable"
approach currently being followed The program would conhnue to utilize the capabll•hes of the currently partocopahng agenc•es on thos panocutarty cost· ellechve sallnoty control act1voty while ehm•nat1ng sahnoty control program •mped•mcnts tn the areas of cost-share hm•tat•ons. contract•ng authont1es.
selection ol practices, and program ass•stance to assure eflechve systems operatoon.
6. Provosoon for development and omplementation ol a program for salinity control on lands adm1nostered by the
Bureau ol Land Management
7 Assumptoon by the Bason States of an add1toonal cost·shana burden where 25 percent of the Federal onvestment in onfarm programs would be repaod through the Bason Funds
Price
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n Rafael
Rivers
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The Pnce and S.n Rafaeo Roversong•nate 1n the mo..anta•ns ol cast·
central Utah and provode tnbutary flows to the Green and Colorado Rivers The study area os pnnc1pally desen with an
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Salinoty concentratoons average 3500 mg L lor the Proce River and 4000 mg/L lor the San Rafael R1ver The estomated annual removal of salt by potentoal control programs is about 180.000 tons
tw•th a reduct1on 1n sahn•ty at lmpenal
Dam of about 12 mg/1.
A professional services contract was
awarded on September 14 1981, to CH,M Holl of Boose, Idaho on the amount of $1,503.882, to conductoMestogatoons to odentJfy alternatoVf' plAns capable ol redUCing the sahmty 1n the nver systems A ptann1ng team and pub!"' onvolvement
program w111 be organized to assost tho
contractor m selecting a recommended plan by September 1983 The leasob1hty stuely IS SCheduled for comptellOn on December 1986
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For questions conoernmg protects doscussed on this newletter. please
contact the Public Afta1rs Oltoce in the
Regoon responsible lor that protect Bureau of Reclamatoon
Upper Colorado Regoonat Olhce P.O Box 11568
Salt Lake C1ty. Utah 84147 Telephone
Commercial
Bureau of Reclamatoo,
FTS 588-5403 801 -524-5403 Lower Colorado Regoona• Offoce P.O. Box 427
Bouldern C1ty, Nevada 89005 Telephone CommerCial FTS 598-7420 702-293-8420
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-For answers to general questions or otems you would hke to see oncludOd in SALINITY UPDATE. wrote to·
Edotor SALINITY UPDATE. 0-1000 Colorado Rover Water Ouahty Olhce Bureau of ReclamatiOn
PO Box 25007
Denver Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225
Telephone: FTS 234-4180
Commercoal 303-2a. ·4 t80
