Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Lewis Wasteway Replacement and Low Head Hydroelectric Project Environmental Assessment.

摘要

The Newlands Project covers lands in the west-central Nevada counties of Churchill, Lyon, Storey, and Washoe. Water for the Newlands Project is primarily from the Carson River and is supplemented from the Truckee River. Annual normal precipitation in the irrigation region of the Newlands Project near Fernley and Fallon, Nevada, is 5.3 inches (USBR Newlands Project website) and temperatures range from a low of -27 degrees to a high over 100 degrees (Western Regional Climate Center, Monthly Maximum/Minimum of Maximum/Minimum Daily Temperature).The Newlands Project, formerly the Truckee-Carson Project, was one of the first Reclamation projects authorized by the Secretary of the Interior on March 14, 1903, pursuant to the Reclamation Act of 1902 (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388). Construction began in 1903, with the first irrigation season being in 1905. The Newlands Project provides full service irrigation water from the Truckee and Carson River Basins with the Truckee Canal allowing inter-basin diversions from the Truckee River to the Carson River. The Truckee division includes Lake Tahoe Dam, Derby Diversion Dam, the Truckee Canal and an irrigation delivery system for service to approximately 5,000 acres of irrigated lands. The Carson Division includes Lahontan Dam, Lahontan Power Plants, Carson River Diversion Dam and canals, laterals, and drainage facilities for irrigation of approximately 55,000 acres of farmland. In addition, water from about 6,000 acres of Newlands Project lands have been transferred to the Fallon National Wildlife Refuge Lahontan Valley wetlands near Fallon.