The San Diego County Water Authority and the Helix Water District today dedicated the new Moreno-Lakeside Pipeline. The new 4.7-mile pipeline will provide up to 80-million gallons per day of untreated water to Helix’s R.M. Levy Water Treatment Plant. The additional treated water will serve customers in the Helix, Otay, Padre Dam and Lakeside water districts. Representatives from the Water Authority and Helix Water District dedicated the $25 million project in a ceremony at the pipeline’s flow control facility.
Category Archives: Water Supplies
Water Authority Launches Online Educational Resources to Support Potable Reuse
A new website and two animated videos released today by the San Diego County Water Authority underscore the agency’s commitment to promote greater awareness and acceptance of potable water reuse as the region’s next major source of safe and reliable water supplies. Using treatment processes similar to seawater desalination, several local water agencies are developing or considering potable reuse projects that rely on multiple technologies to turn wastewater into safe and reliable drinking water that meets all state and federal quality standards. The City of San Diego’s PureWater San Diego project and the East County Advanced Water Purification Program – a […]
County residents strongly support seawater desalination
Editors Note: The full report on the 2004 Public Opinion Poll is available
2004 Public Opinion Survey Report
Water Authority Board Approves $1.65 Billion Budget for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011
The San Diego County Water Authority Board of Directors today approved a $1.65 billion, two-year budget to fund water purchases, debt service, capital improvements and Water Authority operations from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011.
Water Authority Commends Legislature’s Approval of Historic Water Legislation
The San Diego County Water Authority praised the California Legislature’s approval early today of a landmark package of legislation that aims to make long-term improvements in statewide water management and water supply reliability from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta.
Supply Diversification, Water Efficiency Critical to Region’s Future Water Reliability In Updated Long-Term Water Management Plan
The San Diego County Water Authority Board of Directors today adopted its 2010 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP). The plan, a key forecast of regional water demands over the next 25 years and the supply resources needed to meet those demands, calls for the Water Authority and its 24 member agencies to continue to implement and pursue supply diversification projects in response to growing demand and new water supply uncertainties.
QSA remains most reliable path for California’s Colorado River Supplies
The U.S Bureau of Reclamation's proposed reduction of Imperial Irrigation District's 2003 water order is yet another action connected to a divisive and unnecessary water rights litigation that if allowed to continue will leave California's Colorado River water supplies in doubt for decades to come, San Diego County Water Authority officials warned Thursday.
Water Authority board continues efforts to develop additional treated water capacity
The San Diego County Water Authority board of directors yesterday authorized staff to continue design of the Water Authority's first water treatment facility for up to a 100 million-gallon-per-day (MGD) plant at the Water Authority's Twin Oaks Valley Diversion Structure in San Marcos. Consideration of the Robert A. Weese treatment plant for the all or part of the 100 MGD plant was dropped at the recommendation of the City of Oceanside. The Weese plant will be studied for a short-term 5 MGD expansion, which could be operational by summer of 2004.
San Diego County Water Authority pipeline fails in Mission Trails Regional Park
At approximately 1:00 a.m. this morning the San Diego County Water Authority experienced a failure in an untreated water pipeline in Mission Trails Regional Park releasing a large quantity of water into the San Diego River. The failure occurred approximately one-third of a mile north of the intersection of Mission Gorge Road and Jackson Drive. Damage was limited to significant erosion within the park along the Water Authority patrol road and a natural drainage leading to the San Diego River and did not damage any structures.
Agencies Release Quantification Settlement Agreement Funding Plan
Editor's Note: Attached is the three-agencies' plan and letter to Governor Gray Davis
Three agencies that are parties to California's Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA) on the Colorado River on Wednesday released a new funding plan that will reduce the need for state funding to implement the historic water accord and provide added opportunity for studying restoration of the Salton Sea.