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Update on the Wallisville Saltwater Barrier

Update on the Wallisville Saltwater Barrier. Wallisville Timeline. 1914 Lake Anahuac Rice Production Salt Water Intrusion 1950s Drought River Dams Purchase Water from Lake Lavon 1955 TRA Created Saltwater Barrier No Funds 1959 First Contracts TRA/Houston Contract Water Rights Permits

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Update on the Wallisville Saltwater Barrier

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  1. Update on the Wallisville Saltwater Barrier

  2. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  3. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  4. 1914 Lake Anahuac

  5. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  6. 1950s Drought

  7. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  8. TRA Created by Texas Legislature in 1955--Building a Saltwater Barrier was an Element of TRA’s Statute

  9. TRA is responsible for…… “the construction of a salt-water barrier with barge lock in the Trinity River – which will protect the users of fresh water for irrigation purposes; construction of such salt-water barrier with barge lock shall be commenced prior to September 1, 1963.”

  10. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  11. First TRA/Houston Contract • Houston will build, own and operate Lake Livingston • Funding for Livingston/Saltwater Barrier Projects established • Water Rights Permits • Lake Livingston’s water rights permit No. 1970 issued to Houston (902,800 AF) and TRA (351,600 AF) • Wallisville’s Water Rights Permit No. 1974 issued to Houston (38,000 AF) and TRA (51,600 AF) • Fixed rights agreements • Guaranteed water for rice farmers • If Lake Livingston is finished before Wallisville, salinity control releases must be made from May 15 to September 15

  12. Original Fixed Rights Agreements (Amounts in Acre-Feet/Year) Dayton 33,000 Devers 86,000 CLCND 88,820

  13. Major Lower Trinity River Diversions (Amounts in Acre-Feet/Year) CWA/Houston Luce Bayou (Under Development) Trinity River Up to 450,000 of Houston’s 940,800 per 1978 Livingston /Wallisville Amendment Liberty Dayton LNVA- Devers 2,500 + 27,500 from TRA- Livingston per Fixed Rights Contract, bankruptcy settlement and 2009 legislation 56,000 Purchased from Devers 30,000 Purchased from CLCND 86,000 Total SJRA Wallisville Saltwater Barrier CWA/Houston Lake Anahuac 940,800 (Livingston/Wallisville) 33,000 (Dayton Canal Purchase pending water rights amendment) 49,700 (Southern Canal Purchase) 1,023,500 Total 58,820 (30,000 sold to SJRA) CLCND Trinity Bay Anahuac

  14. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962 Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  15. Wallisville authorized as a 19,700 Surface Acre Reservoir

  16. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  17. 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • TRA will build, own and operate Lake Livingston • If the federal government fails to build Wallisville TRA would build it under the same cost sharing arrangements as Lake Livingston

  18. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  19. 1967 Wallisville Construction Begins

  20. 1967 • Local sponsors agreement with the COE • Repayment terms • Local sponsors operating agreement • TRA/Houston would repay under the terms of the 1964 contract • CLCND would have approval authority over changes and operations

  21. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Lawsuit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  22. 1971 Sierra Club Filed Environmental Lawsuit 1973 Federal District Court Stopped Wallisville Construction

  23. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974 – 1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  24. Wallisville Lay Dormant 1973-early 1990s

  25. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974-1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  26. Key Events Following Injunction • 5th Circuit Court Appeal Reversal in 1974 • COE to tidy up Wallisville’s EIS • Wallisville redesigned • U.S. Congress reauthorizes Wallisville in early 1980s • Retained cost sharing agreement • 5th Circuit Court vacated Injunction in 1987 • Congress appropriates funds to redesign and start construction in early 1990’s

  27. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974-1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  28. Wallisville Timeline • 1914 Lake Anahuac • Rice Production • Salt Water Intrusion • 1950s Drought • River Dams • Purchase Water from Lake Lavon • 1955 TRA Created • Saltwater Barrier • No Funds • 1959 First Contracts • TRA/Houston Contract • Water Rights Permits • Fixed Rights • 1962Wallisville Authorized • 1964 Second TRA/Houston Contract • 1967 Wallisville Construction and Agreements • 1971 Sierra Club Law Suit • 1973 Construction Stopped • 1974-1987 Key Events Following Injunction • 1990s Project Restarted • Funded • Redesign • Construction Started • 1999 Wallisville Completed • Operations Begin • Local Cost Sharing

  29. 1999 Wallisville Completed And Operational

  30. Local Cost Sharing Agreement • Repay capital costs for salinity control and recreation, 13.008 percent of project costs • Total construction cost $81,340,000 X 13.008 percent = $10,580,707 for 50-years • Operations and maintenance cost @ 7.901 percent for salinity control and recreation • Major capital replacement cost @ 17.143 percent

  31. Wallisville Payments Made to COE *Routine O&M and Ike repairs estimated

  32. Update on the Wallisville Saltwater Barrier

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