(IID Board Revises water order)…The revision was to support the Colorado River and resolve the pre-delivery Salton Sea issue.

The action was taken at this week’s Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors meeting. In step with focusing its efforts on future Colorado River negotiations, the IID Board ratified revising its 2019 water order to resolve a longstanding issue between the district and the US Bureau of Reclamation over the 2010 pre-delivery of water to the Salton Sea. The revised order was submitted last week and now includes an additional 46,546 acre-feet of conserved water. This water will remain in the river to build elevation at Lake Mead and benefit all Colorado River water users.. The revised order is subject to Reclamation approval after the final true-up of IID’s 2019 water conservation program yields and final water accounting calculations. IID will then be reimbursed about $6.3 million from the Quantification Settlement Agreement Joint Powers Authority from the remaining funds budgeted for Salton Sea mitigation deliveries.