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The Pacific Southwest Water Plan - A Report of the Assembly Interim Committee on Water to the California Legislatures
No full textDocument: The Pacific Southwest Water Plan, A report of the Assembly Interim Committee on Water to the California Legislature, November 8, 1963, page 2016.
The principle that power users should subsidize municipal and industrial water users has not received wide acceptance in California and within the Legislature not only because there is no need for subsidy but also because very frequently the water and power users are the same persons and there is no advantage in paying the costs of water through one's power bill. Finally, it should be recognized that if there is equity in California's contention that it needs all its water for itself and, therefore, should export none to other states, then there is no basis to secure in California the benefits of development of power sites in Arizona. If California merely wishes to secure large amounts of low cost hydroelectric power, the Pacific Northwest may be a better source of supply than the water deficient Colorado River.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 851,546 byte
The Pacific Southwest Water Plan - A Report of the Assembly Interim Committee on Water to the California Legislatures
No full textDocument: The Pacific Southwest Water Plan, A report of the Assembly Interim Committee on Water to the California Legislature, November 8, 1963, page 2622.
demands through Bureau of Reclamation projects (and their traditional associated subsidies) with the addition of subsidy to municipal and industrial water users. However, the Plan proposes no financial assistance for local water features in California. No reason, other than the need for subsidy in Arizona, has been advanced for including Arizona's local projects in the Plan. From the point of view of California, local projects located in either State can remain as local projects without serious detriment to California and therefore need not be included in the over-all Plan.
The need to salvage water along the Colorado River is not entirely a local or a regional undertaking but appears to have elements of both. As noted above, this work should be given a high priority and undertaken with appropriate participation by federal, state and local agencies in lieu of drying up the Colorado River Aqueduct. If the Federal Government has specific proposals to stimulate ground water recharge or for construction of saline conversion plants (other than the Southern California plant included in the Plan) or waste water reclamation facilities in California, these should be welcomed by California and specific forms of cooperation worked out.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,055,963 byte
The Pacific Southwest Water Plan - A Report of the Assembly Interim Committee on Water to the California Legislatures
No full textDocument: The Pacific Southwest Water Plan, A report of the Assembly Interim Committee on Water to the California Legislature, November 8, 1963, page 2824.
Unfortunately, the Pacific Southwest Water Plan was prepared during a short period of time by a task force in Washington, D.C. It does not demonstrate familiarity with the progress being made by the Regional Office of the Bureau of Reclamation and other federal agencies in developing coordinated planning machinery with the State of California. In fact, by proposing that the Bureau of Reclamation construct a peripheral canal in the Delta, it negates much work that has already been done and makes further cooperation by the Bureau of Reclamation difficult. The Committee hopes that serious consideration will be given to furthering the cause of coordinated planning and, if the need develops for a formal agency to facilitate state, federal and local participation in any plan adopted, that the creation of such an agency will be fully studied. Otherwise, there is no means of implementing a number of proposals in the Plan.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 927,557 byte
Able, Constructive Comments Given on Regional Water Plan
No full textDocument: San Diego Evening Tribune, "Able, Constructive Comments Given on Regional Water Plan," December 12, 1963 (photocopy)December 12, 1963
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SAN DIEGO
EVENING TRIBUNE
Jim Carr
THE AMERICAN TRADITION: The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.-Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Able, Constructive Comments Given on Regional Water Plan
CALIFORNIA'S COMMENTS ON the Pacific Southwest Water Plan were ably and constructively made last week by Gov. Brown after intensive study of the plan by the state's water experts.
First, the governor correctly recognized the need for some kind of a regional water plan.
Second, he saw that major changes must be made in the tentative regional plan before it can be acceptable to California.
THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST WAter Plan was tentatively proposed in August by the United States Department of the Interior.
Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall asked for comments on the plan from the governors of the five interested states - California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico.
Gov. Brown and Hugo Fisher, administrator of the state Resources Agency, presented California's comments Dec. 4.
ON THE REGIONAL APPROACH, California commented:
"The shortcomings of the plan do not negate the basic concept that regional planning for water development is both desirable and necessary."
Regional planning is desirable. Rivers don't recognize state boundary lines.
The alternative is interstate conflict. California and Arizona have been fighting over the Colorado for 40 years. It is high time both states took a broader view.
Regional planning is necessary. The water supplies in the Southwest are inadequate to meet expanding demands. New supplies must be imported to make possible continued economic development of the region.
Continued fighting over the dwindling supply of the Colorado River will not add one drop to the regional water supplies.
SAN DIEGO HAS SPECIAL REAsons to approve the regional approach.
We have strong economic ties to the entire Southwest. We would like to develop stronger ties. As Arizona and New Mexico grow and prosper, we would hope to do likewise through commerce with them. A water shortage that stunts their growth would hurt our hopes for increased commerce with them.
More important, our own water position is difficult, not to say dangerous.
The western part of San Diego County now depends upon the Colorado River for 90 per cent of its total supply of water. In time of critical regional shortage, much of this Colorado supply could be cut off.
Our firm water rights are far short of present needs, not to mention future needs. This will be true even after completion of the State Water Plan to its full capacity as presently planned.
We are at the end of the water line, legally as well as physically. We probably stand to suffer more in a regional water crisis than any other area in California.
DESIRABLE AS THE REGIONAL approach may be, the tentative Department of Interior regional plan is unacceptable without major changes. The governor recommended changes under 23 separate headings. Of these, the major ones were as follows.
First, "a regional water commission should be established, composed of representatives of the federal government and the governments of the affected states, to advise concerning the development of the region and to coordinate regional project planning."
This change is of paramount importance. Regional water planning is necessary, but it must not be dominated from Washington.
Second, construction of the state's own water plan must not be delayed and control over its operation must remain in Sacramento.
THIRD, NO PLANS CAN NOW BE made to export California water to Arizona. California is not ready for such a step. If necessary in the future, a new supply of Northern California water could be provided to Southern California water agencies in exchange for a Colorado River entitlement of equal magnitude, which would be given to Arizona.
Fourth, any subsidy for municipal and industrial water users should be eleminated from the plan. Instead, surplus revenues from the power generated at federal dams should be reserved in a fund to pay for future developments to augment and replace the cheaper water supplies developed first.
Fifth, the region covered by the plan should be expanded to include the areas from which it is proposed to import surplus water and all alternative sources of supply should be studied, including importations from the Pacific Northwest.
SUCH RECOMMENDATIONS make up California's creative contributions to the resolution of the water problems of the entire West. Our state has demonstrated its willingness to engage in water statesmanship.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,019,488 byte
Interior Secretary Approves Far-Reaching Lower Colorado River Conservation Plan
No full textUnited States Department of Interior news release, "Interior Secretary approves far-reaching lower Colorado River conservation plan," December 30, 1963, page 7Copies of the report, "Lower Colorado River Land Use Plan," can be inspected at the Land Use office in Yuma or at the office of Mr. Hollister, Interior Building, Washington, D. C.
The report will be printed later and made available for public distribution, Secretary Udall said. Attached is a map of the Lower Colorado River Recreation Plan.
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Telegram Transcripts
No full textTranscript: Western Union Telegram, From Carl Hayden, to Stewart Udall, December 30, 1963, page 1WESTERN UNION
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STEWART L. UDALL December 30, 1963
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
I HAVE JUST CONFERRED WITH THE GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA AND OTHER WATER OFFICIALS OF THE STATE ON THE REVISED DRAFT OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST WATER PLAN MADE AVAILABLE TO THIS STATE ONLY TWO DAYS AGO. IT IS OUR CONSIDERED AND COLLECTIVE JUDGMENT THAT THERE IS NOTHING IN THE REVISED DRAFT WHICH COULD BE INTERPRETED AS AN ENDORSEMENT OF MY BILL, S. 1658, EITHER AS A SEPARATE ENTITY OR AS A SEPERATE SEGMENT OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST WATER PLAN.
I VIGOROUSLY PROTEST THIS FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR COMMITMENT TO ME AND TO OTHER OFFICIALS OF THIS STATE. I INSIST THAT LANGUAGE BE INCLUDED IN THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST WATER PLAN WHICH WILL BE A CLEAR ENDORSEMENT OF THE CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT AS EMBODIED IN S. 1658 AND/OR AS A SEPARATE FIRST SEGMENT IN ANY REGIONAL PROGRAM.
YOUR LETTER TO ME OF DECEMBER 19, WAS NOT RESPONSIVE TO MINE OF THE SAME DATE NOR WAS YOUR ASSURANCE THE SAME AS THAT GIVEN AT OUR MEETING IN MY OFFICE ON DECEMBER 7. I AGREE, INDEED, WITH YOUR CONCERN THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE JUSTIFIED IN FIRING YOU IF YOU SHOULD ACT AS AN ARIZONA SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, BUT SURELY YOU MUST FEEL THE SAME APPREHENSION OVER THE AGGRESSIVE POSITION FAVORING THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TAKEN BY YOUR OWN UNDERSECRETARY JAMES K. CARR OF CALIFORNIA. LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR THAT ARIZONA HAS NOT ASKED FOR ANY SPECIAL TREATMENT BUT SHE DOES SEEK EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO PUT TO USE HER LEGAL SHARE OF COLORADO RIVER WATER AS APPORTIONED TO HER BY THE SUPREME COURT THIS PAST JUNE. WE ASK ONLY FOR THE SAME CONSIDERATION GIVEN UTAH ON HER DIXIE PROJECT.
I MUST FURTHER PROTEST YOUR REPEATED REFERENCES TO COMMITMENTS TO CALIFORNIA INTERESTS AS AN EXCUSE TO DENY FAIR TREATMENT TO THE STATE OF ARIZONA. THROUGH YOUEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,436,372 byte
Telegram Featuring Major Excerpts from L.A. Times Story Regarding Carr's Statement in Sacramento on Southwest Water Plan
No full textDocument: Western Union Telegram, From William E. Warne, to Stewart Udall, Dec 27, 1963, page 4This is a fast message unless its deferred character is indicated by the proper symbol.
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W. P. MARSHALL. PRESIDENT
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ADJUSTMENT IN ITS PLAN IN ORDER TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WILL BE OF TRUE ADVANTAGE TO ALL OF THE STATES INVOLVED.
"I WANT TO RESERVE FURTHER COMMENT, HOWEVER, UNTIL WE HAVE SEEN THE ENTIRE SECOND DRAFT OF THE SECRETARY'S PROPOSALS.'
"IN HIS 40-PAGE REPORT TO UDALL, BROWN ALSO MADE IT CLEAR CALIFORNIA COULDN'T PARTICIPATE IN ANY PLAN WHICH WOULD DELAY COMPLETION OF THE $1.75-BILLION STATE WATER PROJECT THAT WILL ULTIMATELY MOVE SURPLUS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WATER TO SEMI-ARID SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
"ASKED FOR COMMENT ON THIS POINT THURSDAY, CARR REPLIED, ' OUR PLAN AS NOW DRAFTED WOULD IN NO WAY DELAY THE CALIFORNIA WATER PROJECT.
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Telegram Featuring Major Excerpts from L.A. Times Story Regarding Carr's Statement in Sacramento on Southwest Water Plan
No full textDocument: Western Union Telegram, From William E. Warne, to Stewart Udall, Dec 27, 1963, page 5WESTERN UNION
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W. P. MARSHALL. PRESIDENT
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SLOW IT UP IN ANY MANNER.'"
WILLIAM E WARNE DIRECTOR CALIFORNIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
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Outline of Report to Secretary
No full textDocument: Outline of Report to Secretary, December 16, 1963 (photocopy), page 3b. Include Moapa Valley Pumping Project for initial authorization.
c. Nevada should share in benefits of salvage program.
4. Upper Basin States
a. Comments involving Colorado River Compact
1. Delivery of 7.5 m.a.f. annually at Lee Ferry is all that is required of Upper Basin States.
2. Lower basin tributary flows should be accounted for as III (a) or III (b) water.
3. Evaporation losses in lower basin must be charged to that basin as beneficial consumptive use.
b. Deliveries of Colorado River water from Upper Basin assumed in report must not receive legislative sanction as result of authorization--compact must control.
c. Pacific Southwest Plan revenues should reimburse Upper Fund with interests for any costs involved in meeting Hoover power deficiencies during filling period of Upper Basin revenues.
d. Downstream benefits accruing to Marble Canyon and Bridge Canyon be credited to Upper Basin Fund.
e. Utah insists Pacific Southwest Water Plan should not interfere with authorization of Dixie Project.
f. New Mexico proposes actions and agreements, including water exchanges, to make Hooker Dam and Reservoir feasible.
D. Major Federal agency comments
Resumes as appropriate
E. Formal comments received are attached together with a detailed discussion of our views on them and an indication of the extent to which they are accomodated in the final report.
4. Decisions as to plan modification resulting from State and Federal agency review.
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Outline of Report to Secretary
No full textDocument: Outline of Report to Secretary, December 16, 1963 (photocopy), page 6e. Staging of construction to meet needs
f. Exchange or replacement of water
g. Limitations on new irrigation development
h. Local and State cooperation:
1. REnovation of waste water
2. Desalting
3. State projects (California State Plan--fishing lakes)
4. Improved efficiencies of water use
5. Resolution of problems to open ways for lining of Imperial and Coachella canal systems.
i. Priority planning
j. Study and research
8. Recommendations:
Consistent with above
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