|
The
Authority board voted in December to
have independent consultants assess
technical, biological, financial and
other components of the plan.
A
white paper of the evaluation will be
prepared by qualified consultants and
reviewed by the Bureau of Reclamation,
the Salton Sea Authority Technical
Advisory Committee and the Salton Sea
Science Office.
The
white paper will include a critical
assessment of the plan, suggest
refinements or improvements and provide
recommendations for next steps.
The
plan also will undergo a peer review,
lead by the Salton Sea Science Office in
a process that may also include focused
workshops.
U.S.
Filter says its plan would provide up to
500,000 acre-feet of potable water by
capturing the irrigation runoff that now
feeds the Salton Sea. The water would be
caught in a dike and channeled to a
desalinization and treatment plant at
the north end of the Sea.
Discharge
from the plant would flow to a pool
inside the Sea and would eventually form
a smaller lake inside the Sea as a
repository for salt. Meanwhile, the
outer river would be slightly saline and
would be suitable for fishing and
boating. |
