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Canadian River Municipal Water Authority
CRMWA History & System
Drought & CRMWA’s Response
Future Infrastructure Development
1990
2000
1960
1950
BOR/Corps Studies1940’s
1970
1980
40 Years
900 Billion Gallons
Canadian River Water Users Association1949 Federal Approval1950CRMWA is created by the State Legislature1953
CRMWA/BOR Contracts1960Construction Begins1962
Completion of Dam1965
Completion of Aqueduct1968
Completion of John C Williams Wellfield2001Salinity Control Project2001
CRMWA Timeline
2010
Wellfield Expansion (double capacity) 2011
$30 million new water rights2005$50 million new water rights2006
$82 million Mesa water rights purchase 2011
Late 1998
2008
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
Current Groundwater System
Borger
Pampa
Amarillo
To Southern Cities
Gray WheelerCarson
Hutchinson
Roberts
HemphillMoore
Potter
Phase 3
54-inch Groundwater
Phase 1-2
Original Wellfield (JCW) - $83,500,000
2005 Bond Issue - $50,000,000
2006 Bond Issue - $50,000,000
2009 Bond Issue - $21,600,000
2011 Bond Issue - $81,630,000_________________________________
TOTAL - $286,730,000
Wellfield Capacity
• 46 Production Wells
• Estimated Avg Capacity 1,350 gpm
• 46 miles 54-inch pipe
• Total well capacity 100,000 acre-feet/yr
• Pipeline capacity 70,000 acre-feet/yr
What’s Next?
If Lake Meredith doesn’t come back “soon”, additional infrastructure to produce this new water may be required to fill the original lake water system with groundwater.
Original lake water system design capacity 112 MGD.
Current groundwater system capacity is 64 MGD.
A second groundwater system could make the original lake water system whole.
CRMWA Member Cities would then be “drought proof”!
Borger
Pampa
Amarillo
To Southern Cities
Gray WheelerCarson
Hutchinson
Roberts
HemphillMoore
Potter
CRMWA II
Phase 3
54-inch Groundwater
Phase 1-2
CRMWA’s water supply has transitioned from lake water to groundwater in just over 10 years.
With this current purchase, we now have groundwater to last well over a century, even under drought conditions the entire time.
A major expense but no one had to move!
Transition from Lake Meredith to Groundwater