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SaskPower has an approval for the supplementary supply project to produce an annual volume of 5,500 

 dam^/year. This approval was extended by Sask Water in 1996. Future revisions to the approval will 

 likely include conditions requiring termination of pumping (with the exception of wells supplying 

 domestic users) when the reservoir is above a specified level. SaskWater is currently undertaking a 

 study to determine the best reservoir level for a ground-water pumping cutoff. 



SaskPower's supplementary supply well network currently consists of 2 1 wells with a total of 1 

 discharge points. No wells were added or deleted from the well field during the year. 



In addition to the supplementary supply, SaskPower also operates the Soil Salinity Project, which is 

 located south of Morrison Dam. The project was initiated in 1989 to alleviate soil salinity which had 

 developed below the dam. The salinity project consists of a network of production wells which 

 discharge into the cooling water canal, which in turn discharges to Cookson Reservoir. Operation of the 

 salinity project continued in 2000 with production of 675.9 dam'' of ground water. This was well below 

 both the 1999 production level of 881.1 dam^ and the average annual production of 886 dam^/year since 

 the project inception in 1990. Production was at its lowest level since the inception of the project. The 

 reduced production is due to increased mechanical problems in the production wells. A well 

 rehabilitation program for 2001 and 2002 is expected to result in production reaching the levels achieved 

 in the early 1990's. 



Approximately 70 percent of the total volume pumped came from wells PW87103 and PW87104 which 

 are located on the east side of the river and most of the remainder (25 percent) was produced from 

 PW90109 on the west side of the river. 



