Lateral 5.5 Regulating Reservoir

Lateral 5.5 Regulating Reservoir

Turlock Irrigation District (TID) owns and maintains more than 250 miles of gravity-fed canals and laterals that serve more than 4,500 irrigation customers. The Lateral 5.5 canal, part of TID’s canal system, draws water from the Lateral 5 canal at the intersection of Harding Road and Kilroy Road in Stanislaus County, California and transports it in a meandering path west to farmland south of Harding Road. The Harding Drain is a deeply cut field drain located adjacent to Harding Road beginning west of the intersection with Prairie Flower Road and continuing west to the San Joaquin River levee, discharging to the San Joaquin River. The Harding Drain carries spill water resulting from operational fluctuations in the TID canal system as well as tail water runoff from the surrounding irrigated farmland. This water is currently lost from the TID canal system. Lateral 5.5 comes within 2,000 feet of the Harding Drain between Blaker Road and Morgan Road, where Lateral 5.5 has its upper spillway to the Harding Drain. TID proposes to construct the Lateral 5.5 Regulating Reservoir (proposed project) on a 40-acre property it owns south of and adjacent to the Harding Drain between Central Avenue and Blaker Road. The proposed project would draw water from an existing turnout in the Harding Drain during periods when there is water in the drain and pump that water into the reservoir to be stored and later pumped into Lateral 5.5 for scheduled irrigation usage. In addition, a pipeline for future connection to the City of Turlock’s (City’s or Turlock’s) recycled water pipeline would allow discharge of recycled water into the Lateral 5.5 Regulating Reservoir, upon amendment of the City’s wastewater NPDES permit. Currently, the City sends their treated effluent to the City of Modesto’s (Modesto’s) Jennings Secondary/Tertiary Treatment Facility, a large treated effluent storage reservoir used primarily for agricultural irrigation. Some of that water, along with Modesto's treated effluent, now goes to the Del Puerto Irrigation District via the Delta Mendota Canal. Both Turlock and Modesto have separate wastewater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for this operation, which have been approved previously. Therefore, Turlock's effluent has not drained to the San Joaquin River for an extensive amount of time, and diverting some of Turlock's effluent to the Lateral 5.5 Regulating Reservoir would not decrease flows to the San Joaquin River.

Turlock

Stanislaus

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Water Facilities (Canal Regulating Reservoir)(Type water storage, MGD 50)

Site Plan

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