Category: Potential Water Projects

Temperance Flat Reservoir would be a new surface water storage facility on the San Joaquin River, above Friant Dam and below Kerckhoff Dam north east of Fresno.

Water would be released from Temperance Flat Reservoir to Millerton Lake for canal diversion and/or release to the San Joaquin River.

Operating criteria could be influenced by ecosystem needs in the reservoirs, recreation opportunities, hydropower generation, and flood control requirements.  Reservoir sizes considered in studies ranged from 460 thousand acre-feet (TAF) to about 2.8 million acre-feet in gross storage capacity.

More information
http://www.water.ca.gov/storage/docs/USJ%20Project%20Docs/Temperance_FAQ.pdf

This project presents an opportunity to acquire water for the Refuge Water Supply Program through the availability of disinfected tertiary-treated recycled water available for agricultural use on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.

The first phase of NVRRWP could produce and deliver up to 25,700 acre-feet per year (AFY) of recycled water to DPWD by 2016.

By 2025 it isestimated that up to 32,900 AFY could be diverted to the District. At buildout conditions, Modesto and Turlock have the potential to produce up to 53,000 AFY of recycled water.

More information
http://www.nvr-recycledwater.org/description.asp

This project includes the development of additional water that can be used for irrigation and wildlife enhancement purposes and to improve groundwater recharge in the area.

New facilities required include about 3,000 feet of 36-inch pipeline and potentially a booster pump station.

In addition, it is proposed to change the current operation of LBCDR to increase the normal usable storage space from about 8,000 AF to 20,000 AF.

More information
http://www.water.ca.gov/lgagrant/docs/applications/San%20Joaquin%20River%20Exchange%20Contractors%20Water%20Authority%20(201209870060)/Att04_LGA12_SJRECWA_ProjD_1of1.pdf

The existing water system is aged, has suspected leaks, poorly performing valves, and deficiencies in fire hydrant flow rates and pressures.

The proposed improvements include:

• Replacement of 18,700 linear feet of leaking and undersized water mains and service lines
• The remediation of the distribution system to provide the minimum required 20 pounds per square inch pressure at all fire hydrants during fire flow plus maximum daily flow conditions
• The replacement of all non-functioning emergency isolation valves (up to approximately 100) and fire hydrants (up to 36) throughout the community.

The expected benefits of the project will be a reduction in currently unquantified water loss, compliance with current standards for fire safety, and restored emergency isolation valve control in case of a pipeline break or system contamination.

More information
http://www.kingsbasinauthority.org/_documents/IRWMP_Project_List/Project_Info_Forms/003_Biola_CSD.pdf

This project proposes, as its primary project action, to acquire parcels comprising a large “island” within the flood channel and restore the property to riparian condition through natural and assisted processes.

One of the assisted processes will be the removal of a berm and raised roadway that serves the agricultural uses and resloping these and other areas of the island to a natural contour.

By restoring the island to a riparian condition, flood releases will inundate the riparian area and also flow around the island naturally within the historic river channel.

Parcels in proximity to the island may also be acquired to achieve additional flood protection and/or wildlife enhancement benefits.

Secondary project actions include non-structural actions such as degrading interior levees to conform to post-project design water surface elevations and structural actions to increase the levee elevations in selected locations to maximize freeboard.

More information
http://www.kingsbasinauthority.org/_documents/IRWMP_Project_List/Project_Info_Forms/117_KRCD.pdf

Wastewater Treatment Effluent Reclamation Project consisting of groundwater extraction wells, piping/valving, booster pump station and purple pipe distribution system; ultimate planned production of 4.0 Million Gallons per Day (MGD), (12.28 AF-Day)

The following are the types of facilities that could use the recycled water for irrigation.

• Agricultural users
• Street medians
• Parks, schools, and public facilities
• Ridge Creek Golf Course
• Residential yard landscaping (dual system)

More information
http://www.ceqanet.ca.gov/DocDescription.asp?DocPK=588635

The proposed project will include flood control measures to protect the community of Seville and will help protect approximately 100 homes in Seville as well as the Stone Corral Elementary School.

The project includes two 24 inch diameter culverts and control structures connecting ALTA I.D.’s Sontag Ditch to the Stone Corral Irrigation District (SCID) drainage system.

The culverts are proposed at the location where the Sontag Ditch and SCID are in close proximity to each other at Avenue 384 (state highway 201.) Seville is a severely disadvantaged community.

The project consists of the development of a 75-acre groundwater banking facility to create an average annual water supply of approximately 2,500 AF from available Kings River flows.

The project would be able to bank an average of approximately 3,200 AF of water each year that will be made available to market.

The project would also provide approximately 53 acres of new wetland habitat, improve groundwater quality through increased groundwater recharge in the area, and reduce groundwater pumping costs by raising groundwater levels in the vicinity due to the project’s average annual banked water balance anticipated to be approximately 5,000 AF.

In addition, the project would reduce flood flows in the Kings River by allowing the District to capture additional flood water from the river into its recharge ponds.

In general, the District’s soils have the ability to percolate very large volumes of water and can take advantage of the additional flood water recharge.

More information
http://www.kingsbasinauthority.org/projects-funding/ongoing-projects/proposition-84-round-1-irwm-implementation-grant/

The City of Orange Cove is looking toward revamping / upgrading its wastewater treatment facility such that its treated water would be more suitable for use on agricultural crops within the Orange Cove Irrigation District which generally surrounds the City.

For the District’s landowners to be able to utilize this recycled supply, the District’s distribution system would need to be modified to more broadly distribute and therefore more effectively utilize the wastewater treatment plant’s effluent.

More information
http://www.apg-neuros.com/en/case-studies.aspx?ID=12

Identified by the State of California and the federal government as an important component of integrated water management in the Sacramento Valley that could advance the long-term co-equal objectives of improving water management and restoring ecological health for beneficial uses of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Sacramento River watershed.

Further benefits include:

• Water supply reliability
• Water quality (reduced water treatment costs)
• Ecosystem restoration (anadromous fish/other aquatic species as well as terrestrial habitat e.g. Yolo Bypass)

More information
http://www.water.ca.gov/storage/northdelta/index.cfm
http://www.water.ca.gov/storage/docs/NODOS%20Project%20Docs/nodos_map_fact_sheet_7-2011(2).pdf