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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Draft of Report of Commissioner of Reclamation
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan, Draft of Report of Commissioner of Reclamation, December 20, 1963, page 19renovation should be delineated as rapidly as possible to achieve full realization of the potential. This should be a matter of immediate cooperative study, and ground rules for Federal participation should developed as rapidly as Possible..
Desalting Program
The rapid strides which have been made in desalting techniques hold forth significant promise that, in time, this means of developing new water supplies will become economically competitive with other atternatives. To the extent that desalting of sea or brackish water in the future may contribute to meeting the region's growing water demands, the magnitude of alternative water imports from California north coastal basins con be decreased. Present Sizes of demonstrations plant and present techniques, however, do not produce fresh water at costs commensureate with the costs of alternative measures. Larger size plants and improved techniques may more desalting competitive economically in meeting certain future municipal and industrial demands, specific desalting installations have not been included in the Initial Plan. The initial Plan does contemplate continued Federal-State, and local endeavor in research and demonstration programs aimed at advancement of the science of desalting, sea water and brackish water.
The future role of the Federal Government in the construction of larger demonstration plants is provided for under the Anderson-Aspinall Act of September 22, 1961. This Act is the fourth of a series of Acts authorized to provide research into and development of practical means for the economical production of fresh water from sea and brackish waters. The first two Acts, Public Laws 82-448 and 81-111, provided for research and development over a period of 10 years to 1962. The third Act, Public Law 85-883, provided specifically for
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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Draft of Report of Commissioner of Reclamation
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan, Draft of Report of Commissioner of Reclamation, December 20, 1963, page 33The accompanying map shows the reservoir conservation opportunities in the North Coast area, as copied from the State's Preview of Bulletin No. 136, which, it is generally agreed, present the best opportunities of development. Additional intensive investigation is required, however, to firm up the details of the specific individual facilities.
The storage facilities tentatively proposed in the Initial Plan Pacific Southwest Water Plan, for demonstration of economic justification and financial feasibility of the entire Initial Plan, consist of Helena Reservoir on the main stem of Trinity River and the Eltapom Reservoir on South Fork Trinity River, with tunnel diversion to Clear Creek, and thence, down that stream through regulatory storage and powerplants to the Sacramento River. It is estimated in the California Department of Water Resources Preview of Bulletin No. 136 that 1,200,000 acre-feet of water yield would be developed from these reservoirs, together with associated diversion and power facilities, at a cost of 60,000,000 for transmission of the power generated at these plants to the load center at Tracy for distribution to help supply the pumping power requirements of the plants along the proposed enlarged East Side Canal. Also the Fish and Wildlife Service contemplates facilities estimated to cost 617,000,000.
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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Draft of Report of Commissioner of Reclamation
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan, Draft of Report of Commissioner of Reclamation, December 20, 1963, page 54(b) Direct the Secretary of the Interior to expedite completion of feasibility reports on the remaining features of the Initial Plan which require final refinement as follows:
(i) North Coastal California reservoir storage projects, giving consideration to sites on the Trinity River, South Fork Trinity River, Eel River, and other potential sites;
(ii) Central Valley Project East Side Division enlargement to provide a means of transporting North Coast water to a point of connection on the California Aqueduct enlargement;
(iii) Cedar Springs-Perris Aqueduct to connect the enlarged California Aqueduct to the Metropolitan Water District distribution system;
(iv) Cedar Springs-Hayfield-Imperial Aqueduct to afford another possible connection to the Metropolitan Water District distribution system or to connect the enlarged California Aqueduct to Colorado River water users in the Imperial and Coachella Valleys.
(4) Establish a priority planning program for tributary projects where undeveloped local water supplies are available or can be made available by replacement or exchange, and other projects including potential Indian developments which can utilize the waters of the Colorado River by direct diversion.
(5) Direct the Secretary of the Interior to assume leadership Under the general direction of a federal-state advisory Commission in a long-range, continuing cooperative Federal, State and local
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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan- Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal- Secretary to the President, December 1963, page 2to the most careful husbandry of its existing water resources and to new sources of supply if it is to continue to expand and prosper. Careful and imaginative planning backed by positive forceful action on a broad front of coordinated local, State and Federal endeavor can and must meet the challenge. The alternative is economic stagnation and retrenchment.
Decades ago men of vision foresaw the growth potential of the Pacific Southwest. They foresaw as well the great underlying importance of the waters of the Colorado River Basin to this growth. To assure that this great resource potential did not become dedicated to the benefit of any one area or State they instituted a series of actions which led to interstate compacts, an international treaty, state and Congressional legislation, and Supreme Court decisions which today, in the aggregate, constitute the "Law of the River."
Major benchmarks in the "Law of the River" began in 1922 with approval by representatives of the Colorado River basin states of the Colorado River Compact. The Compact apportioned the waters of the Colorado River system between the Upper and Lower Basins but did not divide the waters among the States. The Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 approved the Compact and authorized the construction of Hoover Dam and the All-American Canal. This Act and the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act of 1940 vested certain key responsibilities in the Secretary of the Interior relative to the comprehensive and coordinated development of the Colorado River and the marketing of water and power from Lower Basin
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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan- Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal- Secretary to the President, December 1963, page 3facilities. The Mexican Treaty of 1944 obligated the United States to deliver at least 1,500,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water annually to Mexico. The Upper Colorado River Compact of 1948 divided the Upper Basin's Colorado River Compact apportionment of Colorado River water among the Upper Basin States. The most recent and culminating addition to the "Law of the River" is the Supreme Court decision of 1963, following eleven years of litigation, in the case of Arizona v. California, et al. This decision divides the first 7.5 million acre-feet per annum of main stream Colorado River water available for use among the Lower Basin States in the ratio of California--4.4 million acre-feet, Arizona--2.8 million acre-feet, and Nevada--0.3 million acre-feet.
By 1974, however, within ten brief years, there will not be 7.5 million acre-feet per annum available for consumptive use in the Colorado River below Lee Ferry to divide among the Lower Basin States. In succeeding years the amount of water for division will steadily decrease as the Upper Basin States put to use their apportioned waters. Ultimately the shortage below 7.5 million acre-feet could be as much as 2.0 million acre-feet per annum or more. This, moreover, is only a part of the water shortage facing the Pacific Southwest. By the year 2000 it is estimated that, if the Pacific Southwest is to realize its growth potential, new water supplies in the magnitude of about 4.0 million acre-feet must be developed over and above existing supplies and additional supplies to be developed by works now under construction.
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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan- Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal- Secretary to the President, December 1963, page 5at an early date a statement of the extent of your present studies and an outline for a coordinated, comprehensive pattern under which, in your Department's understanding and view, the Southwest's water and power needs might be satisfactorily provided for."
During the succeeding nine months the Department of the Interior, through intensive effort, developed the broad outlines of a comprehensive plan. In so doing it became abundantly clear that any regional water resources plan for the Pacific Southwest must be based on much more than the physical and economic considerations of water supply. It must accommodate, as well, the many historic and institutional patterns that have evolved over past decades.
First and foremost a regional plan must recognize and respect the "Law of the River." The Upper Basin States must be assured, for instance, that no regional plan for the Pacific Southwest will, in any way, deprive them of Colorado Basin water apportioned to them by the Colorado River Compact. The rights of the individual States likewise must be respected and the aspirations of the States accommodated to the greatest extent practical. Even within individual States the rights and aspirations of geographic areas must be taken fully into account. The plan must recognize the structure of water rights law in each affected States and the basic rights of the several Indian tribes. Existing water contracts and agreements, entered into in good faith, cannot summarily be set aside even if to do so would provide a more economic method of developing new water supply. The plan must conform to Congressionally directed Federal
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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan- Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal- Secretary to the President, December 1963, page 9The Initial Plan proposes further the immediate authorization of specific features for which adequate studies have been made to define them in detail and to demonstrate their engineering and economic feasibility. These features include a power division comprised of Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon Dams and Reservoirs, water salvage and recovery programs, the Central Arizona Project in Arizona, Federal participation in enlargement of the California Aqueduct from Wheeler Ridge to Cedar Springs Reservoir, the Southern Nevada Water Supply and Moapa Valley Pumping Projects in Nevada, the Hooker Dam and Reservoir in New Mexico, the Dixie Project in Utah, Indian Irrigation Projects, and provisions and programs for recreation and fish and wildlife conservation and development.
The balance of the Initial Plan comprises the system for importing water from North Coastal California streams which, until the costs of desalted water become competitive, is necessary to sustain the guarantee of 7.5 million acre-feet in the Colorado River beyond that which can be accomplished through water salvage and related measures. While such an import system is known to be feasible from engineering and economic standpoints, its details have not been sufficiently refined to warrant a request for authorization at this time.
The total construction cost of the Initial Plan is estimated as 2,979,000,000, or 95 percent, would be fully reimbursable. The costs of eachfeature would be repaid within 50 years
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Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal
No full textDocument: Pacific Southwest Water Plan- Proposed Draft Letter of Transmittal- Secretary to the President, December 1963, page 13The stage is now set for water resource development in the Pacific Southwest to move ahead. The need is urgent. Settlement of the basic rights of the States to Lower Colorado River water is in immediate prospect. Key basic concepts on a regional approach have received wide support and approval. Soundly conceived plans are available to support a request for authorization of initial key developments. Immediate and long-range developments can be founded on the firm financial base of a regional development fund. The rights and aspirations of the individual States and of the areas within States can be respected and met.
If the States and the many varied interests of this great Pacific Southwest region unite and bend their efforts to achieving common objectives, I am optimistic of success. If, on the other hand, divergent avenues are taken in the hopes of partial and temporary achievement, then the resumption of bitter feuding and its end product, stalemate, will result.
I am convinced that the path of progress is the path of united action. I am confident that the Initial Pacific Southwest Water Plan presented herein opens that path.
I recommend, therefore, that the Congress approve the Initial Pacific Southwest Water Plan and that it enact those authorizations and other implementing actions recommended herein. I shall appreciate your advice concerning the relationship of the proposals of this report to your
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Letter Thanking Secretary for Letter
No full textTo: Stewart Udall, from Paul G. Rogers, May 17, 1968Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 2,572,126 byte
Letter Concerning Letter with Reference to H.R. 3300
No full textLetter: To Stewart Udall, from William L. Springer, May 16, 1968Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 2,490,549 byte