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Draft of Letter to Governors to Five Lower Basin States
No full textDocument: Draft of Letter to Governors of Five Lower Basin States, August 1963, page 3-3-
political realities in Washington realizes that a project of this magnitude would have rough going in the Congress, and therefore I should particularly like to solicit your recommendations and suggestions toward scaling down the initial phase proposal to be presented to the Congress by at least a 1/2 billion dollars. If we can accomplish this objective, it should be possible to devise a plan which can win Congressional approval.
The second matter relates to the proposed second phase plan which is outlined in this report. You will recognize, at the outset, that very few of the second stage proposals have been studied in depth, and it is obvious that the regular process of exhaustive analysis will have to be followed before any of these long-range proposals can be presented for authorization. Of course, we will welcome your suggestions, comments and criticisms regarding the component parts of the second stage plan, but I should caution youEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 2,146,626 byte
Pacific Southwest Water Plan
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan, August 1963 (carbon copy)Pacific Southwest Water Plan
Area Possible Phase I
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Handwritten Notes
No full textDocument: Hydrology, July 1963 (photocopy)Any charts?- Maps? Slides?
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Handwritten Note
No full textDocument: Note from Ed, 1963Owner Summary is amaging. did you tibe it down in o(??) (??) unite me B WEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, byte
Summarization of Arizona's Interests in Colorado River Water
No full textDocument: summarization of Arizona's interests in Colorado River water, 1963, author unknown, page 33
4. Two recent happenings have developed differences of opinion within Arizona. First, the Secretary of the Interior has announced an intent to develop a comprehensive plan for the lower Colorado River, employing a basin account, with the Greater Arizona Project one element of that plan, and one participant in the basin account. Arizona's Marble Canyon and Bridge Canyon sites would be the principal supports of that basin account until Hoover and Parker-Davis might contribute. The second: S502 has been introduced. If enacted, the Federal Power Commission could not issue licenses for either Marble Canyon or Bridge Canyon before 1969.
5. The Greater Arizona Project is Arizona's first interest in the field of water and hydro electric power, and Arizona has assumed itself almost ready for the authorization processes. Absent the basin development concept, that authorization could take the form of outright authorization of Bridge Canyon, with authorization of the irrigation and municipal water features conditioned upon a later showing of feasibility for them. Arizona has a Bureau of Reclamation report which could be used in support of this approach.
6. California very much wants Reclamation to build Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon if they are not irrevocably tied to support of the irrigation features of the Greater Arizona Project. The question arises as to whether Arizona might not find itself entrapped in a scheme under which Bridge and Marble were built, and ultimate authorization and appropriations for the subsidized irrigation features defeated.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,554,479 byte
Bureau of Reclamation - Status of Planning Program in the Southwest
No full textDocument: Attachment B, Bureau of Reclamation, Status of Planning Program in the Southwest, 1963, page 1Attachment B
Bureau of Reclamation
Status of Planning Program in the Southwest
1. Projects on which feasibility investigations have been completed
a. Dixie Project, Utah. This project, which is located on the Virgin River in southwestern Utah, will provide irrigation water for about 23,000 acres. The feasibility report has been completed and submitted to the Office of the President.
b. Middle Gila River Project, Arizona. This project involves a multipurpose dam and reservoir at the Buttes site on the Gila River to provide supplemental water for 100,000 acres of land in the San Carlos Project. The feasibility report has been completed and submitted to the Office of the President.
2. Potential Projects on which feasibility studies are under way
a. Boulder Canyon Project, All-American Canal System Water Salvage, California. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of salvaging a substantial part of the seepage losses in the All-American Canal System by installation of canal lining. The investigation was initiated this fiscal year and is scheduled for completion in fiscal year 1965.
b. Bridge Canyon Project, Arizona. This is an investigation to determine the feasibility of a dam, reservoir, and powerplant to be located on the Colorado River about 117.5 miles upstream from Hoover Dam. The feasibility report is scheduled to be completed in fiscal year 1964.
c. Central Arizona Project, Arizona. The principal purpose of this potential project is the diversion of water from the Colorado River into the Phoenix-Tucson area for supplemental irrigation and municipal and industrial use. Following submission of a report on this project to the Congress in September 1948, the Bureau terminated all further studies until fiscal year 1961 when the State of Arizona advanced funds for an appraisal of the project in light of current conditions. That appraisal has been completed and detailed studies to firm up the plan are under way leading to a report scheduled for completion in fiscal year 1967.
d. Marble Canyon Project, Arizona. This potential project will consist of a major dam, reservoir, and powerplant on the ColoradoEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,328,172 byte
Bureau of Reclamation - Status of Planning Program in the Southwest
No full textDocument: Attachment B, Bureau of Reclamation, Status of Planning Program in the Southwest, 1963, page 34. Other Activities
There are a number of other activities under way in the Lower Colorado River Basin which are aimed at better use of the available water supply. Advance planning studies were initiated this fiscal year on a terminal regulating reservoir on the Colorado River just upstream from Imperial Dam. This reservoir will permit better regulation and more efficient use of Colorado River water. A study also is under way to develop a plan for and evaluate the feasibility of groundwater recovery in the Yuma area, exclusive of Yuma Valley. The Bureau is currently performing special engineering studies in connection with the salinity problem associated with the delivery of water to Mexico under the treaty of February 3, 1944. This expedited program of investigation is to obtain data that will complement and extend much of existing data and will facilitate the formulation of a plan to alleviate the salinity problem.
Another activity of the Bureau which is of considerable importance to the Southwestern area is a river channelization and control program that the Bureau has had under way for several years on the Lower Colorado River.
The Bureau of Reclamation and the Geological Survey, jointly, are carrying on continuing studies of the quality of water of the Colorado River system to appraise its suitability for municipal, domestic, industrial, and irrigation use; to estimate the effects of future developments on water quality; and to examine possible means of improving water quality. These studies are being made pursuant to legislation authorizing the Colorado River Storage Project, the San Juan-Chama and Navajo Indian Irrigation Projects, and the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. The first progress report on these studies was transmitted to the Congress on January 3, 1963.
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The Proposed Lower Colorado River Project - An Outline of the Study
No full textDocument: Attachment A, The Proposed Colorado River Project, 1963, page 1ATTACHMENT A
THE PROPOSED LOWER COLORADO RIVER PROJECT
An Outline of the Study
The proposed lower Colorado River Project study initiated by the Secretary of the Interior is a regional approach to the water and power problems in the Pacific Southwest. A number of individual projects are presently being studied under Congressional directives in parts of the lower Colorado River Basin in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
The purpose of the broader study herein outlined is to consolidate investigations underway, expand the study, and find a regional comprehensive solution to the immediate and long-term water problems and incidental power problems of this section of the United States.
The Chairmen of the affected committees of the Congress, as well as other members of Congress, Governors, and interested agencies and groups of the affected States, will be consulted as soon as preliminary information is collected, to obtain the best possible advice on the direction and extent of the study as it progresses.
The proposed lower Colorado River Project would be patterned, in part, on the successful approach to similar problems in the upper Colorado River Basin which resulted in authorization by the Congress in 1956 of the Colorado River Storage Project. Such a lower ColoradoEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 730,953 byte
The Proposed Lower Colorado River Project - An Outline of the Study
No full textDocument: Attachment A, The Proposed Colorado River Project, 1963, page 5development of new water supplies wherever it can be done economically. The problem demands a comprehensive regional solution.
Source of Additional Water
Additional water supplies for the region could come from:
1. more efficient use of water in the lower Colorado River Basin itself;
2. participating projects where it can be clearly determined that long-term surface supplies are surplus to present and prospective needs;
3. production of fresh water from saline water plants; or, more probably
a combination of these three sources of additional water.
Better Use of Available Colorado River Supply
An estimated million acre-feet of water annually in the lower Colorado River Basin could be salvaged by a sound water conservation program. Such measures would include lining of existing canals, additional storage for re-regulation of Colorado River water, river channel rectification, and control of unnecessary water-consuming plant life.
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Memorandum of Arizona Public Service Company with Respect to the Central Arizona Porject and the Related Matter of Power
No full textDocument: Memorandum of Arizona Public Service Company With Respect to Water and Hydro Electric Power Development in Arizona, November 14, 1962, page 38. In order to fulfill the true objectives and aims of the Central Arizona Project Association and the Interstate Stream Commission to deliver water from the Colorado River to the farmers at as low a cost as is possible, why not consider selling the power generated at Marble and Bridge to the highest bidder or bidders instead of selling it only to public power groups and eliminating taxpaying distributors from even bidding on any portion of such power?
9. The taxpaying utilities of this state owe it to their customers to insist on a fair division of the power from the Colorado River so that their customers will also share in its benefits. These companies serve approximately 67% of the total population of the state. Furthermore, Arizona Public Service Company serves totally or partially the energy for irrigation pumping for 563, 210 acres or 40% of the total Arizona land developed for irrigation. Yet the program sponsored by the public power distributors makes "second class" citizens of the customers of the investor owned taxpaying utilities by refusing to let them have their fair share of Colorado River power. Arizona Public Service cannot and will not stand idly by and see this injustice occur.
10. Because the agreement with the Arizona Power Authority regarding Marble was made in good faith and in order to induce it to defer action on Bridge, we strongly urge all parties to stay with their bargain until some other program satisfactory to the Arizona Power Authority and all interested parties is worked out. Without good faith and a basic sense of fair play as to the rights of all parties concerned, no united effort will be possible and the success of the Central Arizona Project will be endangered.
11. We propose that a sincere attempt be made to reconcile the differences of the parties in which a spirit of equity be predominant and controlling and also a recognition that the Central Arizona Project if it comes into being will be the result of the efforts of all groups including taxpaying utilities and supporters of the rights of such utilities, as well as public power organizations. We pledge our wholehearted support of any and all effort along this line.
This statement authorized and approved by the Board of Directors of Arizona Public Service Company.
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