The Agency is actively involved in planning for additional water sources and additional facilities as the Pass region grows. Listed below are some of the projects that we are studying:

• Whitewater flume. The Agency is working with the Banning Heights Mutual Water Company, the City of Banning, and Southern California Edison to repair an 80-year old flume conveying water from high in the San Bernardino Mountains so that it may continue to bring an average of over 5,000 acre-feet per year of high quality water into our service area.
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• East Branch Extension Phase 2—See Facilities page for details on this project, which will increase our ability to bring supplemental water into our service area. Planned online date: 2013.
  
  
• East Branch Extension Phase 1 Improvements—This project adds to the capacity of Crafton Hills Reservoir and includes a bypass pipeline around the reservoir. The primary purpose of this project is to make our distribution system more reliable. It will enable us to do more pumping at night, when rates are cheaper. It will also enable us to deliver water even when Crafton Hills Reservoir is shut down for any reason. Planned online date: 2011. Click here for more information.
  
  
• Brookside South Recharge Project—This project is an in-stream recharge project in Noble Creek.  The project envisions a series of low berms in Noble Creek that would allow State Water Project water to be delivered (via the Mountain View Flood Control Channel) and recharged into the Beaumont Basin. Click here for more information. It would be used from approximately May through November each year.  It would not be used during the rainy season.  This will increase our ability to recharge the Beaumont Basin.  Planned online date:  2010.

• Banning Pipeline—The City of Banning is constructing a pipeline to bring State Water Project from Cherry Valley to the City.  The Agency is reviewing the possibility of upsizing this pipeline from 24-inches to 36-inches that would make it part of a regional pipeline that would eventually bring State Water Project water to Cabazon.  The Agency has paid for the design of the 36-inch version of this line.  When the City proceeds with construction, the Agency will decide whether it wants to pay to upsize the pipeline at that time.

• State Water Project Extension—The Agency is working with the Coachella Valley Water District, Desert Water Agency, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to determine the feasibility of extending the California Aqueduct to the Coachella Valley.  Two different alignments are being studied—one that runs north of the San Bernardino Mountains through the Lucerne Valley, and one that runs through the Pass.  If the Pass alignment is selected, and if the project is constructed, the Agency would likely purchase capacity through Cabazon in order to meet the Agency’s obligations to serve State Water Project water to this part of our service area.  This project is currently in the study phase.

• Urban Water Management Plan—The Agency is required by law to produce an Urban Water Management Plan every five years, starting in 2010.  This plan, along with UWMP’s by local retail water agencies, will serve as the basis for determining water supplies for any new development between 2010 and 2015.  The Agency plans to have its UWMP published by April 2010.

• Cabazon Basin Studies—The Agency is performing a series of studies of the Cabazon Groundwater Basin in order to determine the need for recharge water.  The ultimate goal of these studies is to determine the safe yield of the Basin, so that we will know whether the basin is in overdraft conditions or not.