Project details - CRBSCP - Las Vegas Wash Unit - Title II

Location	From the Intake Pumping Plant to a regulating tank at the desalting plant site.
Construction period
Description	Precast concrete pipe.
Length	0.27 mi
Diameter	27 in
Capacity	20 cfs

Reject Brine Pipeline

Location	From the reject pumping plant to the evaporation ponds
Construction period	Construction delayed
Description	Precast concrete pipe.
Length	3.5 mi
Diameter	18 in
Capacity	10 cfs

Bypass Pipeline - (First and Second Stages)

Location	From Clark County`s Advance Wastewater Treatment Plant along the north side of Las Vegas Wash; terminates downstream of the Barrier.
Construction period	Scheduled 1978-1980
Length	5 mi
Diameter	66-78 in
Capacity	240 cfs

Regulating Tank

Location	Desalting plant site.
Construction period	Construction delayed
Description	Steel
Length	30 ft
Diameter	50 ft

Las Vegas Wash Membrane Desalting Plant

Location	On the south side of Las Vegas Wash about 1,400 ft upstream from the intake pumping plant near the barrier.
Construction period	Not yet scheduled
Description	Reverse osmosis
Quality input	4,200 ppm
Quality output	700 ppm
Quantity	20 cfs
Plant site:
Length	676 ft
Width	355 ft
Plant capacity	13 MGD

Product Water Pipeline

Location	From the desalting plant to a settling pool in Las Vegas Wash immediately below the barrier dam.
Construction period
Length	0.28 mi
Diameter	18 in
Capacity	18 cfs

Power Supply - First and Second Stages

Power for the facilities will be provided by the Nevada Power Co. It is expected the company will extend an existing 12-kV line 8,900 ft to the intake pumping plant and desalting plant sites. Control meters located at each load area will provide final adjustment for utilization voltages.

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Pumping Plants

Designation	Number of units	Total capacity, cfs	Total dynamic head, ft	Total horsepower
First stage intake	3	10.5	105
Reject	3	10.5	199	105
Second Stage intake additions1	2	10.5	105

1 Second stage facilities (essentially an addition of a desalting plant to the first stage, some modification to first stage facilities will be required).

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Last updated: Jun 03, 2009