Project
Description
The San Vicente Pumping Facilities
are part of the Emergency Storage Project, a system of reservoirs, interconnected
pipelines and pumping stations designed to make water available to the
San Diego region in the event of an interruption in imported water deliveries.
The pumping facilities, which will be located on a hill northwest of San
Vicente Dam near the marina access road, will include a pumping station,
surge control facility, and connecting pipelines.
These facilities will be essential
in the event of an interruption in imported water deliveries to the county.
The facilities will have the capability to move up to 300 million gallons
of water per day from San Vicente Reservoir through the 11-mile-long San
Vicente Pipeline to the Water Authority’s water delivery system. This
is enough water to serve 88 percent of the county’s population daily.
From the pumping station the
water will be pumped up to the surge control facility at the top of the
hill near the dam. The surge control facility will protect the San Vicente
Pipeline from extreme pressure fluctuations in the case of sudden pump
or valve failures in the system. The 3-million-gallon surge tank will
be built in a basin so only 20 feet will be visible. From the surge control
facility, water will flow by gravity through the San Vicente Pipeline
to the Water Authority’s Second Aqueduct.
Construction of the San Vicente
Pumping Facilities is scheduled to be complete in mid-2009. To get a better
understanding of how the pumping facilities function together with the
San Vicente Pipeline to provide water during emergencies, please see the
diagram below.
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