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