Engineering & Operations Committee Chair Pat Miller (Calleguas) summoned all the members of the E&O Committee and assorted other directors to our annual inspection of district projects.  Now Pat is not someone who is easy to say no to, so we all showed up.  And besides we were also anxious to see progress at Eastside Reservoir near Hemet  and a variety of other facilities.

We next traveled to Pasadena to view other MWD facilities.

But the highlight of the day and of the trip had to be the visit to the Eastisde Reservoir, now about 60% and 18 months from filling.

Day Two:

Lake Skinner and treatment facility is the southern section of the developing Riverside County recreation and nature preserve created by MWD.

At the San Jacinto Tunnel we inspected a project designed to ensure that a threatening slope would not cut off this critical control facility for the Colorado River Aqueduct.

The Inland Feeder is the connecting link that will bring in state project water to the Eastside Reservoir.  A billion dollar project it consists of 45 miles of large-scale pipes and tunnels through Riverside County.

And of course we had to stop at Garvey Reservoir.

Special thanks go to all the engineering and operations staff who made this an informative, factual trip. And no one went hungry.
  

	Yes, I was on the trip.  And that's Director Ted Grandsen (Calleguas) in the background
	Directors Carol Kwan (West Basin), John Morris (San Marino) and Frank Forbes (Upper San Gabriel) at  Lake Skinner.
	"This is an Inspection Tour," says Director Jim Blake (Fullerton).
	Director Tim Brick (Pasadena) tells staffer Amy Rego he wants to see the Yuma Desalter.
	Director Terry Mylne (Western MWD- Riverside County) in the middle of the Inland       Feeder Tunnel Boring Machine.
	Directors Gordon Tinker (San Diego County), Blake, Miller and Jim Rez (Glendale) at the San Jacinto Outlet.
	Directors Kwan and Bill Wright (Torrance) holding back the hillside at San Jacinto.
	Garvey Reservoir -- "We'll never come back here again" -- Chair Miller