CANADIAN RIVER MUNICIPALWATER AUTHORITY

Sanford Dam & Lake Meredith

1990

2000

1960

1950

BOR/Corps Studies1940’s

1970

1980

40 Years

900 Billion Gallons

Canadian River Water Users Association1949

Federal Approval1950

CRMWA – State Legislature1953

CRMWA/BOR Contracts1960

Construction Begins1962

Completion of Dam1965

Completion of Aqueduct1968

Completion of John C Williams Wellfield & Aqueduct2001

Salinity Control Project2001

CRMWA Timeline 2010Wellfield Expansion (double capacity)

2011

$30 million new water rights2005

$50 million new water rights2006

$94 million Mesa water rights purchase 2011

Canadian

New

Mexic

o

Texas

Pampa

Borger

Brownfield

Levelland

Slaton

Tahoka

O'Donnell

Lamesa

Lubbock

Plainview

Amarillo

Texas

Ute Lake

Lake

Meredith

Oklahoma

Conchas

Reservoir

River

0 10 20 30 40 50

Scale in Miles

Canadian River Project Built by: Bureau of Reclamation

1999

2012

Lake Meredithbefore and after

Last

Week

Lake Meredith

• Built to have a renewable water supply available during both

wet and dry cycles

• Built to help conserve City’s/region’s local groundwater

supplies

• Has supplied nearly 1 trillion gallons

(a football field 580 miles deep) of

water

• That 1 trillion gallons would otherwise

have been pumped from the

non-renewable Ogallala

Channel

Revitalizatio

n Project

► Treated 160 river miles (Ute to

Meredith)

► 27,000 acres ($3.7 million)

treated

► 1 acre of Salt Cedar is estimated

to use 7 acre-feet of water

annually

Salt Cedar Control

Quay

Union

Hartley

Oldham

Dallam

Potter

Moore

Harding

Deaf Smith Randall

Sherman

Carson

Hutchinson

Hansford

Armstrong

San Miguel

Curry

Treated 2017

Treated 2004-2016

Lake Meredith

Ute Reservoir

Bar Graph showing FY estimates over time

Dwindling supplies from Lake Meredith

Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District rules

T Boone Pickens’ plan to sell water downstate

3 Factors

Motivated

Massive

Water Rights

Purchase

Future CRMWA

Groundwater

PipelinesCRMWA II

• Online in 2023 +

• 67-mile 54”

• Additional wells

• 65 Million Gallons per Day (MGD)

• $250,000,000+

CRMWA III

• online in 2050+, if ever???

• 170-mile 54”±

• 65 MGD ±

• $500,000,000 ±

Today’s Dollars

Surface/Groundwater

BlendGoal is to meet State secondary drinking water standards

300 ppm Chlorides

Lake Water

Chlorides (ppm)

Groundwater

Chlorides (ppm)

1900

600

500

300

Blend Ratio

(Lake/Wells)

%170

170

170

170

7/93

30/70

40/60

100/0

25,000 ppm Cl

4,000 ppm Cl

Storage

Tanks FiltersInjection

Well

Extraction

Well

120’

3,800’

River Flow

Tecovas Formation

Trujillo Formation

River Alluvium – sand/gravel

Brine Aquifer

Salinity Control

Project Schematic

CRMWA’s water supply

transitioned from 100% lake

water to 100% groundwater in

10-years (2001 to 2011)

A major expense (over

$300M) but no one had to

move

We have more groundwater

than any other entity in the

nation, enough to last well

over a century even in the

worst conditions

We are again blending

surface water and

groundwater to maximize our

resources

Transition from Surface Water to Groundwater

199

9

November 2017

January 2016

Blowout

December 30, 2015

Blowout Repair

Clamp Repair

2016 to 2116!!!

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Acre

-Feet

Canadian River Comparisons

287 Bridge

Revuelto

UTE

TOTAL NM

LAKE MEREDITH

Questions

?

Canadian River Municipal Water AuthorityKent Satterwhite, P.E.

General Manager