SWP/CVP Operations for Delta Salinity Management John Leahigh Principal Engineer State Water Project Water Operations California Department of Water Resources July 25, 2014
Fundamental Water Project Operations What are the Delta Salinity Standards? How do the Projects Manage Salinity? Unique Challenges this Year and Next
Store Water Release Storage Summer Flow FallSpringWinter Project Reservoir Operation
4 Salinity Intrusion Before and After Managed Upstream Reservoirs After (1944 –1990) Before (1920 –1943)
D-1641 Bay-Delta Standards Locations
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The Projects have 3 “knobs” to turn 1) Releases 2) DCC Gate 3) Exports
Daily Tidal Cycle
Flow of Flood and Ebb Tides (cfs) 340,000330,000 80,000 71,000 58,000 47,000 2,000 1,000
Overlay of Monthly Spring/Neap Cycle
Travel Times Present a Challenge
Delta Lake Shasta Lake Oroville Folsom Lake Outflow CVP/SWP Coordinated Operations Agreement (COA) BanksJones
DCC Gate Trade-Offs: DCC Gate Operations May Conflict with Fish Migration
January 2014
Emergency Drought Barriers Sutter Slough Steamboat Slough West False River
Clifton Court Forebay Electrical Conductivity Dec – May 2014 Sacramento River at Verona Flow