[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 105 (Tuesday, July 14, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1760]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. DUNCAN HUNTER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 14, 2009

  Mr. HUNTER. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding an earmark I received as part of H.R. 3183, the Energy and 
Water Appropriations for FY 2010:
  I requested $250,000 in this legislation for the San Diego Four-
Reservoir Intertie Project through the Bureau of Reclamation's Water 
and Related Resources Investigations account. The entity to receive 
funding for this project is the City of San Diego, located at 202 C 
Street, San Diego, California 92101.
  The City of San Diego is seeking to perform a feasibility study in 
partnership with the Bureau of Reclamation, authorized by the Omnibus 
Public Land Management Act (P.L. 111-11), to examine connecting four 
existing reservoirs in San Diego County (San Vicente, El Capitan, 
Murray and Loveland) in an effort to study and improve water supply 
reliability and water yield throughout the region, as well provide an 
added element of public safety to protect local water supplies. 
Loveland currently only receives local runoff, El Capitan receives 
local runoff and imported water, but due to pipeline capacity 
limitations, the full capacity of the reservoir cannot be utilized. 
Local rainfall in the watersheds to these reservoirs is inadequate to 
fill them and only occurs once every five to ten years.
  The unused capacity of the four San Diego reservoirs totals an 
estimated 100,000 acre-feet a year. Maximizing storage capacity would 
provide a significant water storage volume that can be put to 
beneficial use if imported water were piped to the reservoirs and 
efficiently operated. Additionally, connectivity between the reservoirs 
would allow the isolation of contaminated water in the event of a 
terrorist attack or natural disaster while, at the same time, transport 
water from another reservoir to the affected area. Besides the City of 
San Diego, this project has the full support of the San Diego County 
Water Authority and the Sweetwater Authority, two local public water 
agencies.

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