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Conclusions
No full textDocument: "Conclusions", 1961-1969, page 23. The Supreme Court decision in the case Arizona v. California, et al, does not increase the water supply of the area. It does, however, resolve the conflicting claims and entitlements of the several states to Colorado River water in the lower basin. Thus it provides a basis for development of a comprehensive plan to solve the water needs of the Pacific Southwest.
4. Arizona urgently needs the waters to which it recently acquired the right to divert from the Colorado River under the Supreme Court decision, otherwise or it will face a slowly withering economy as present water supplies diminish. Southern California, as a result of the Supreme Court decision, will have to curtail its Colorado River diversions and will face the same diminishing water-supply problem that Arizona faces today. Western New Mexico needs upstream water conservation and control facilities to expand its historically water restricted economy. Southern Nevada requires additional water to provide for its phenomenal population growth. Southern Utah needs water conservation and control facilities to overcome seasonal shortages of surface water.
5. The precepts under which the Department of the Interior has historically acted have never encouraged the development of one area to the detriment of another. The diminishing of an existing economy, or the retared development of another, carries nationwide implications. In the Pacific Southwest, defined for the purposes of this study as portions of each of the above five states -- each dependent to some extent on the Colorado River -- it is incumbent upon the Secretary of the Interior in any plan of regional to develop and implement a regional water development plan to preserve and protect and promote the economy and interests of all the affected states.
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Recommendations
No full textDocument: "Recommendations", 1961-1969, page 2RECOMMENDATIONS-2
5) The Dixie Project in southwestern Utah to provide about 60,000 acre-feet annually, starting in _. for irrigation and municipal and industrial purposes.
6) The Hooker Dam Project in New Mexico, with completion by _. to control and regulate erratic storm and winter season runoff, to stabilize flows for downstream agricultural purposes, and for municipal and industrial uses in the Silver City and Tyrone areas.
7) Expansion of Indian Irrigation Project facilities on the Colorado River, [Fort Mohave and Chemehuevi reservations, to be completed by_in order to]
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8) Water salvage and ground-water recovery projects along the mainstream Colorado River to begin the conservation of river flows now being consumed for non-beneficial purposes such as growth of useless shrubs and trees.
9) Initial programs of other agencies associated with this Pacific Southwest Water Plan.
b. Phase 2, [at a cost of $2.164 billion,] to take care of the water needs of the region through 1990. Construction in this phase would start in 1969 and be completed in 2006, with all new water provided under this phase to be available by 1985. Main elementsof Phase 2 construction would be:
1) Central Arizona Project incremental construction paralleling the initial construction, to provide for growing Arizona needs by helping carry Arizona's 1,200,000 acre-feet share of waters diverted from northern California. This incremental construction would be companion toEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,419,937 byte
Lower Colorado River Project
No full textDocument: Lower Colorado River Project, text begins "The Southwest area of the United States…..", 1962?, (photocopy) page 2rate of around 2,200,000 acre-feet annually, thereby resulting in rapid and serious lowering of the water table. As a result of the economic impact of lowering the ground-water table, some 200,000 acres of land have been withdrawn from irrigation. To alleviate the current situation and provide for this most rapidly expanding area in the country, additional sources of water are urgently needed.
If the current Arizona vs. California Supreme Court suit is settled as recommended by the Master, it is safe to assume that about 1,000,000 acre-feet of water would be made available to Arizona over and above that now being utilized. If this were all divereted from the river into the Phoenix-Tucson area, it, of course, would do no more than slow down the current rate of mining of underground water. This, at best, would have only a temporary impact on the economy, and is no long-range solution to the water supply problem of Central Arizona.
In addition, if the above-described diversion to the Central Arizona area is accomplished, it must be recognized that it would ultimately result in a reduction in the present level of diversions to other areas in the Southwest. In brief, this would entail taking water away from areas where it is now being used without means of replacement to those areas.
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General Outline Lower Colorado River Project
No full textDocument: Lower Colorado River Project, "General Outline", 1961-1969, (carbon copy) page 7LOWER COLORADO RIVER PROJECT
Proposed Authorization for Construction and Planning
PROJECT DIVISIONS AND PARTICIPATING UNITS CONSTRUCTION PLANNING
Status or Priority Estimated Construction Cost ( in millions)
From To
V. SOUTHERN NEVADA DIVISION (cont'd)
Ft. Mohave Unit 3rd priority 10 20
Panaca Unit 3rd priority 5 10
VI. WESTERN NEW MEXICO DIVISION
Hooker Dam Unit In progress 20 40
Lordsburg Mesa Unit " 10 20
Gila River Unit " 10 15
San Francisco River Unit " 20 40
Pumped Storage Unit " 100 200
Zuni River Unit 3rd priority 10 30
Unidentified Units 3rd priority 10 20
VII. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DIVISION
Coachella Unit
Rehabilitation & Betterment Authorized 7
Canal Lining 1st priority 25
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Upper Colorado River Storage Project
No full textDocument: "Colorado River Storage Project" text begins "Five Power companies-- Public Service company of Colorado..", 1961?, page 2-2-
These power companies don't explain that neaieg every kilowatt hour of energy generated at these dams will be purchased by the preference customers--the rural electrics and municipal systems. Or that competent engineers and accountants estimate that power costs will be increased by up to $5-million dollars annually, if their proposal should be accepted.
The Colorado Water Conservation Board, representing the state most heavily involved in the storage project, has concluded that construction of these lines by the power companies "would be greatly detrimental to the future water resource development of the state."
The Upper Colorado River Commission, whose duties include water studies, also insists that the 5-company proposal be rejected if it "adversely affects" project repayment and consumer power rates "When compared with other methods of energy transmission."
Colorado River Basin Consumers Power, Inc., representing the 70 rural electrics and 85 municipal systems which will purchase all of the project's power, have employed competent engineers and other consultants who state that the power companies' proposals would prevent scheduled repayment to the government--unless electric rates are increased.
All studies, other than the half-truths disseminated by the power companies (which have a selfish motive), show that the construction of all-Federal system will insure power at lowest cost to the taxpayers who have advanced the billion dollars which will be investedEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,245,367 byte
Colorado River Storage Project
No full textDocument: "Colorado River Storage Project" text begins "The Colorado River Storage Project is a magnificent..", 1961?, page 11961?
COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT
The Colorado River Storage Project is a magnificent monument to the Public Works Program which the Federal Government has undertaken over the past years. The benefits of this project to the peoples of the seven great states it encompasses are many and include recreation, low-cost power, and irrigation. I find it deplorable that, in the almost final stage of this billion dollar project, a group of private utilities, motivated only by profit, should attempt to put a series of toll gates on the proposed transmission system and this immensely reduces the consumer power benefits. These private utilities claim that their proposals for the transmission system are in the public interest and for the general public welfare. Yet, to this date, they have made no attempt to interconnect their own systems in order to make-low cost power available to the consumer. Now, after the Federal Government has expended nearly one billion dollars, these utilities wish to, for an investment of little more than one hundred million dollars, control the transmission of energy from the hydroelectric projects to the major load areas, as well as to control the interchange of energy between the power projects.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 989,509 byte
Central Arizona Unit - Alternative Sources of Financial Assistance to Irrigation
No full textDocument: Graph, "Central Arizona Unit- Alternative Sources of Financial Assistance to Irrigation", 1961-1969,LENTRAL ARIZONA UNIT
Alternative Sources of financial Assistance to Irrigation
IRRIGATION ASSISTANCE FROM M&I AND AD VALOREM TAX REVENUE ONLY const. cost 627 million
IRRIGATION ASSISTANCE FROM M&I. AD VALOREM. AND 23% OF HOOVER, PARKER-DAVIS REVENUES. 627 million
IRRIGATION ASSISTANCE FROM M&I AND AD VALOREM TAX WITH FEDERAL PARTICIPATION IN LARGE THERMAL PLANT const cost 51 M&I AND 487,000,000
WITH 23% OF HOOVER, PACKER-DAVIS REVENUES 377,000,000
FEDERAL PARTICIPATION IN LARGE THERMEL PLAN 149,000,000
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Colorado River Basin Project - Reference Maps
No full textUnited States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, "Colorado River Basin Project Reference Maps", 1967?, page 4Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 2,208,912 byte
Colorado River Basin Project - Reference Maps
No full textUnited States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, "Colorado River Basin Project Reference Maps", 1967?, (foldout), page 7Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 4,168,849 byte
Anthropological Papers - Outline History of the Glen Canyon Region
No full textJournal: Anthropological Notes, University of Utah Department of Anthropology, "Outline History of the Glen Canyon Region 1776 - 1922", Number 42, September 1959, page ivEpson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,061,176 byte