San Luis Reservoir Low Point Improvement Project

San Luis Reservoir Low Point Improvement Project

Recognizing the need to resolve the low point problem, the Low Point Improvement Project was inlcuded in the August 28, 2000 CALFED Bay-Delta Program's Programmatic Record of Decision as a complementary conveyance action. The low point problem currently creates water quality, reliability, and operational impacts on the District, other San Felipe Divison contractors, the CVP, and the SWP. This condition can: (1) cause taste and odor problems, (2) become difficult or impractical to treat, (3) foul drip irrigation systems, and/or (4) eliminate the possibility of delivering any water to the San Felipe Division. The results of these impacts are additional operating costs, risks to public health and safety from interruption in water supply, and economic losses to agriculture and industry. There are also significant opportunity costs to the CVP and SWP as a result of their inability to fully utilize all of the available storage in the reservoir. These impacts will increase in the future as the low point occurs more frequently and for a longerduration. The following summary of the Problem Definition Statement includes information on San Luis Reservoir, current and future operations, and impacts on users.

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Air Resources Board, Major Industrial Projects, California Coastal Commission (CCC), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of State Parks, Division of Boating and Waterways, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coast Region 3 (RWQCB), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Department of Housing and Community Development, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)

California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)