San Vicente Pumping Facilities

The pumping facilities include a pump station, surge control facility, and connecting pipelines. If the county is ever cut off from imported water supplies, these facilities will work together to keep water flowing. They will move up to 300 million gallons of water per day from San Vicente Reservoir through the 11-mile-long San Vicente Pipeline to the Water Authority’s water delivery system. This amount of water can serve nearly half of the San Diego region’s average, daily water use.

The pump station will pump water up to the surge control facility at the top of a hill overlooking San Vicente Reservoir. The 3-million-gallon surge tank was built in a basin so that only the top 20 feet are visible. The surge control facility will protect the San Vicente Pipeline and other pipelines from extreme pressure fluctuations that could result from sudden pump or valve failures in the system. From the surge control facility, water will flow by gravity through the San Vicente Pipeline westward to the Water Authority’s Second Aqueduct.

To get a better understanding of how the pumping facilities function together with the San Vicente Pipeline to provide water during emergencies, please see the diagram in the "Map" section below.

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Construction of the San Vicente Pumping Facilities project began in early 2007. All construction was completed in late 2010.

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How the San Vicente Pumping Facilities Operate

 

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Meeting Summaries:
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (June 2009)
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (February 2009)
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (September 2008)
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (May 21, 2008)
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (October 17, 2007)
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (May 2, 2007)
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (February 21, 2007)
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (October 18, 2006)
 Lakeside Community Planning Group Update  (July 20, 2005)

 

Information Updates:
 Construction Update Letter (October 27, 2008)
 Reservoir Summer Schedule Postcard (April 2008)
 Reservoir Closure Update Postcard (September 2007)
 Reservoir Summer Schedule Returns Postcard (April 2008)
 Blasting Notification Letter (February 2, 2007)

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Click here to view the report and other environmental documents for this and other projects.

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For more information about facility, please call (877) 682-9283 or email ESPinfo@sdcwa.org.

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