Salinas River Diversion Facility (SRDF)

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This page gives an overview of the Salinas River Diversion Facility.

Summary

The Salinas River Diversion Facility is part of the Salinas Valley Water Project and was created to help mitigate sea water intrusion in the Salinas Valley. The facility consists of a rubber dam located 5 miles upstream from the mouth of the Salinas River. The dam is designed to retain water released from the Nacimiento Reservoir in a 100 acre foot detention pond. The intended use for this water is to help recharge the aquifer and to be used in irrigation. When the damn is activated, it creates a 100 acre-foot detention pond. with facilities designed to extract 23 million gallons of water per day for use in irrigation. The diverted water is mixed with recycled waste-water to be used on crops during high irrigation periods[1].

Planning and construciton

Costs

The initial cost of the facility was $14 million out of the $33 million Salinas Valley Water Project budget. The other funds were in part spent to upgrade the Nacimiento spillway to be able to increase available discharge.

Special Status Species

The Salinas River is designated as critical habitat for the threatened steelhead trout. To mitigate impacts the rubber dam of the steehead, a fish ladder was incorperated into the rubber damn to bring it inline with the local steelhead recovery plans.


References

  1. Design and Construction of the Diversion Facility http://ussdams.com/proceedings/2010Proc/577-592.pdf


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