Report of the Secretary of the Army
on Civil Works Activities for Fiscal Year 1993
Department of the Army Corps of Engineers
Extract Report of the Walla Walla District

Preconstruction, Engineering, and Design

Little Wood River Project, Vicinity Gooding and Shoshone, Idaho

The Little Wood River Project was authorized by the Water Resource Development Act of 1986. The proposed project would have consisted of a diversion channel and two ponding facilities to divert floodflows from the Little Wood River into adjacent lava fields via the Dietrich and Milner-Gooding Canals for the purpose of reducing flood damages in the Gooding and Shoshone, Idaho, vicinities. As a result of lack of local sponsorship, the project is being terminated. A limited reevaluation paper was prepared and submitted to higher authority.

Preconstruction engineering and design activities were initiated in Fiscal Year 1990 to review and update the project formulation development in the 1976 feasibility report. A coordination meeting was held in Gooding, Idaho, on 29 May 1991 with the project sponsor. At that meeting the sponsor indicated that they no longer have financial capability to act as project sponsor. A limited reevaluation report, dated July 1992, was approved by HQUSACE on 15 January 1993, which recommended termination of the study. The Division Engineer's "Notice of Termination" was released, dated 19 July 1993. Copies of the final reevaluation report were distributed by letter dated 23 August 1993.

Fiscal Year 1993 costs were $8.04.