Lower Tule River SINCE 1950 

I rri g ation Di s trict 

Gary Fernandes 

President 

January 22, 2014 

John Rocloffs 

Vice President 

Michelle Demling Jim Costa 

Director Regional Plaillling Officer 

Bureau of Reclamation 

2800 Cottage Way, MP-700 Tom Barcellos 

Director Sacramento, CA 95825 

Subject: CVC Contractors Comments on the Draft Delta-Mendota 

Alex Garcia 

Director Canal/California Aqueduct Intertie Cost Allocation Information Report-Central 

Valley Project 

Daniel G. Vink Dear Mrs. Demling, Gel/eral ManageI' 

Per the Draft Delta-Mendota Canal/California Aqueduct Intertie Cost Allocation 

Eric Limas Information Report-Central Valley Project (the "Draft Report"), the purpose of BII.~i l/ess Mal/llger 

the Intertie is to increase capacity at the lones Pumping Plant. According to the 

Draft Report, based on modeling, Reclamation has estimated that the Cross 

Beth Grote-Lewis Valley Contractors will receive an ailllual average agricultural water supply Asse.~.wr benefit of 4,400 acre-feet, and therefore Reclamation has proposed that the Cross 

Valley Contractors be allocated 15.83% of the benefits and costs of the 

Alex Peltzer construction of the Intertie. 

Legal COI/IISel 

The Cross Valley Contractors would like an explanation of the modeling. Neither 

the Draft Report nor the modeling explanation within it appear to contemplate that 

the Cross Valley Contractors have a first priority right pursuant to State Water 

Resources Control Board Water Right Decision 1641 (D-1641) and other 

applicable legal authority to move their water through the Banks Pumping Plant 

under the Joint Point of Diversion (IPOD). While in stark contrast, at Jones, the 

Cross Valley Contractors have a lower priority and very rarely, under extremely 

limited circumstances, is CVC water able to be moved through Jones. Likewise, 

the Inteltie's purported benefits for increased storage of agricultural water 

supplies in the San Luis Reservoir appear to be of little or no benefit to the Cross 

Valley Contractors, given their extremely limited contractual rights to such 

storage. 

Based on the foregoing, it does not appear that the Draft Report accurately states 

or identifies any tangible benefits that the Intertie will provide to the Cross Valley 

Contractors; and that it will largely benefit CVP contractors with lower pumping 357 E. Olive Avenue priority rights at Banks and higher priority rights at Jones, and with superior rights Tipton, CA 93272 

1559)686-4716 

or 1559) 752-5050 

FPLXISS9) 686-0151 

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to storage in the San Luis Reservoir. Absent a detailed explanation of the modeling 

methodologies and assumptions used in making the calculations and estimates in the Draft 

Report, we do not feel the intertie will benefit the Cross Valley Contractors much, if at all and 

therefore the costs of the Intertie should not be applicable to Cross Valley Contractors. 

Please contact Dan Vink at 559-686-4716 or dvink@ltrid.org, or Eric Limas at 559-686-4716 or 

elimas@ltrid.org. if you have any questions or to discuss this matter further. 

Sincerely, 

4', Z--: 

as Business Manager 

Cc: Brenda Bryant, Regional Financial Manager, Bureau of Reclamation 

Cross-Valley Contractors