NorthoftheDelta Offstream Storage Investigation

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North-of-the-Delta Offstream Storage Investigation

• Planning and Timeline

Planning is bringing the future into the present
so you can do something about it now. -Alan
Lakein
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Introduction to the NODOS Presentations
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• Reports and Planning Schedule

Design and Construction Schedule
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• NODOS Progress Report (July 2000)
• Memorandum of Understanding between local water
  agencies and CALFED agencies
• Notice of Preparation and Notice of Intent
• Scoping Report
• Notice of Initiation of Federal Feasibility Study
• NODOS Initial Alternatives Information Report
  (May 2006)
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• Completed Studies
• ESA Protocol Level Surveys
• Wetland Delineations
• Engineering Studies
• Glenn Colusa Irrigation District Canal
  Feasibility
• Tehama-Colusa Canal Feasibility
• Sacramento River Conveyance
• Funks Reservoir Enlargement
• Sites Reservoir Dams and Appurtenant Structures
• Road Relocations
• Fish and Wildlife Surveys
• Recreation Opportunities

• Ongoing Studies
• Sacramento River Flow Regime
• Cultural and Historic Resources
• CALSIM II Operations Modeling Studies of NODOS
  Scenarios
• Indian Trust Assets
• Socioeconomics
• Environmental Justice
• Public Health and Environmental Hazards
• Water Quality
• Power Production and Energy
• Groundwater and Surface Water Resources

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• Analytical tools developed by Common Assumptions
  as part of the Common Model Package
• Existing Tools in Use
• Water Resource System (CALSIM II)
• Economics (LCPSIM, CVPM)
• Delta Flow and Salinity (DSM2)
• Sacramento River (Keswick to Red Bluff)
• Temperature ( SRWQM)
• Salmon Production (SALMOD)
• Power Generation and Use
• CVP (LTGen)
• SWP (SWP Power)

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• Other physical process and biotic analytical
  tools are being developed by DWR, Reclamation,
  and others that may be useful for the NODOS
  investigation in evaluating the effects of NODOS
  alternatives, these tools include

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• Sediment transport
• River meander migration/Habitat species
• Riparian habitat establishment
• Linkages between Sacramento River flows and
  ecological targets

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