San Vicente Surge Control Test

The Water Authority tested the emergency overflow system on the new San Vicente Surge Control Tank on December 21, 2009. For the two-minute test, enough water to fill four typical backyard pools -- about 80,000 gallons flowed downhill and into the San Vicente Reservoir. Although this overflow system will probably never be needed, it creates a safe path for water to return to the reservoir if the nearby San Vicente Pump Station were to malfunction.
The surge control tank and pump station, along with the San Vicente Pipeline and San Vicente Dam Raise project, will work together to keep water flowing throughout San Diego County if our imported supplies are cut off. For more information about the Emergency Storage Project that will protect the region from water supply emergencies, visit http://www.sdcwa.org/infra/esp-svpumpingfacilities.phtml

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[DrSantaVicente]

The divers didn't mind since the visibility, where they are working on the dam face hundreds of yards away for the cofferdam, is pretty bad anyway. Let's look at it this way - the first flush washed down the rocks so future surge control tank overflows will be cleaner. (normal rain runoff brings tons of mud into SVR)

[49bluespacefish]

cool test ,but you dirtied up the water for the divers q:D. I t looked like a fast moving landslide at the bottom