Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Construction of the first section of pipeline on Merida Drive is part of the Santa Margarita River Conjunctive Use Project. This segment of pipeline between Alturas and Mission roads is about 4,500 linear feet and is 35% installed. The project is expected to be delivering water to Fallbrook taps in early 2022.
Construction of the first section of pipeline on Merida Drive is part of the Santa Margarita River Conjunctive Use Project. This segment of pipeline between Alturas and Mission roads is about 4,500 linear feet and is 35% installed. The project is expected to be delivering water to Fallbrook taps in early 2022.
Construction of the first section of pipeline on Merida Drive is part of the Santa Margarita River Conjunctive Use Project. This segment of pipeline between Alturas and Mission roads is about 4,500 linear feet and is 35% installed. The project is expected to be delivering water to Fallbrook taps in early 2022.
The five Fallbrook Public Utility District board members were given a tour of FPUD's Santa Margarita Conjunctive Use Project sites May 29.
Because a majority of the FPUD board members were present, it was legally required to be a noticed public hearing and the tour was officially a special meeting of the FPUD board. Although members of the public were welcome to attend they would have been required to remain in their own cars or trucks due to the coronavirus quarantine, but they would have been able to hear the audio communications.
No members of the public joined the five FPUD board members, three FPUD staff members including general manager Jack Bebee, and the contractor who gave the presentation during the tour.
"We all drove in our own cars," Bebee said. "We had a conference call live."
The Santa Margarita Conjunctive Use Project being is being pursued by FPUD, Camp Pendleton, and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and will enhance groundwater recharge and recovery capability within the lower Santa Margarita River basin by the development of a program to increase available water supplies for FPUD and Camp Pendleton.
Facilities within the lower basin will be constructed to capture additional surface runoff, which currently flows to the Pacific Ocean, during high stream flow periods. The surface water will be recharged through existing groundwater ponds and stored in groundwater basins during wet years while being "banked" for water rights statistics. The water will be used to augment supplies during dry years, which will reduce the reliance on imported water provided from San Diego County Water Authority sources.
The Camp Pendleton infrastructure will include piping to deliver the water to the boundary of the Naval Weapons Station and Fallbrook behind the FPUD solar facility site on Alturas Road. Construction of the facilities from the NWS boundary is FPUD's responsibility.
The water will be treated at the Alturas Road plant and delivered into FPUD's distribution system. FPUD's infrastructure will include a groundwater treatment plant, a distribution system to the Gheen Zone east of Stage Coach Lane, the Gheen Pump Station and a storage tank with piping, and construction management and supervisory control and data acquisition system integration.
The tour group initially drove from the FPUD administration building to the Alturas Road plant and then traveled along the pipeline alignment before arriving at the Gheen Pump Station. The tour took approximately two hours.
Bebee noted that the participants of the tour discussed the possibility of a subsequent tour once progress has been made on construction of the facilities.
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