Protection and Development of the Lower Colorado River Basin, Volumes 1-4 |
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... flood menace . Furthermore , it is financially as well as physically impossible to go on raising these levees higher and higher , because to put an addi- tional cubic yard of material on top one has to go back 30 or 40 feet down the ...
... flood menace . Furthermore , it is financially as well as physically impossible to go on raising these levees higher and higher , because to put an addi- tional cubic yard of material on top one has to go back 30 or 40 feet down the ...
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... flood control , are to pro- vide an adequate water supply to existing communities ; having stored the water for flood control , it becomes an asset and may then be put to useful purposes . Some of the greatest losses in the Imperial ...
... flood control , are to pro- vide an adequate water supply to existing communities ; having stored the water for flood control , it becomes an asset and may then be put to useful purposes . Some of the greatest losses in the Imperial ...
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... flood of which there was any knowledge . Of course , after that great flood , there is only one thing to do and that is to make certain that a similar disaster shall not again devastate the Mississippi Valley . This committee is now to ...
... flood of which there was any knowledge . Of course , after that great flood , there is only one thing to do and that is to make certain that a similar disaster shall not again devastate the Mississippi Valley . This committee is now to ...
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... flood - control dam , and also the bill provide for the all - American canal ? Mr. WINSOR . We made the proposition to Denver that we would waive the question of power altogether and enter into a compact relating only to water . Mr ...
... flood - control dam , and also the bill provide for the all - American canal ? Mr. WINSOR . We made the proposition to Denver that we would waive the question of power altogether and enter into a compact relating only to water . Mr ...
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... flood - control dam is a legitimate governmental function ? Mr. WINSOR . Absolutely . Mr. SINNOTT . You concede that it is ? Mr. WINSOR . Certainly ; yes , sir ; in so far as it does not conflict with the rights of the States affected ...
... flood - control dam is a legitimate governmental function ? Mr. WINSOR . Absolutely . Mr. SINNOTT . You concede that it is ? Mr. WINSOR . Certainly ; yes , sir ; in so far as it does not conflict with the rights of the States affected ...
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acre-feet acre-feet of water acres agree agreement all-American canal ALLGOOD allocation amendments amount of water appropriation approved ARENTZ BANNISTER believe Black Canyon Boulder Canyon power Boulder Dam British thermal units capacity cent CHAIRMAN CHILDERS Colorado River Basin Colorado River compact COLTON commission committee Congress construction contract cost DOUGLAS economic engineers estimates Federal Government feet flood control flow Gila Governor DERN Governor EMERSON hearings HOGAN horsepower HUDSPETH Imperial irrigation district Imperial Valley interest Interior irrigation kilowatt-hour lands legislation legislature lower basin lower Colorado River main stream matter MCCLUSKEY ment Mexico MORROW navigable negotiations PANTER power plant present problem proposed proposition purpose question ratified reason reclamation reference representatives reservoir revenue Salton Sea second-feet Secretary Senator seven-State compact silt SINNOTT six-State compact statement storage SWING Swing-Johnson bill tion treaty tributaries United upper basin Utah water rights WINSOR Yuma
Popular passages
Page 28 - ... within the limits of the several States, belong to the respective States within which they are found, with the consequent right to use or dispose of any portion thereof, when that can be done without substantial impairment of the interest of the public in the waters, and subject always to the paramount right of Congress to control their navigation so far as may be necessary for the regulation of commerce with foreign nations and among the States.
Page 8 - March 28, 1930, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget advised the Department of Agriculture that the program of expenditures contemplated by this proposed legislation would not be in conflict with the financial program of the President if the bills were amended so as to authorize annual appropriations Of not to exceed the amount specified.
Page 255 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws...
Page 5 - An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain states and territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands...
Page 2 - River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water...
Page 36 - domestic use" shall include the use of water for household stock, municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other like purposes, but shall exclude the generation of electrical power. Article III (a) There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado River system in perpetuity to the upper basin and to the lower basin, respectively, the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre-feet of water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist.
Page 4 - Also the United States, in constructing, managing, and operating the dam, reservoir, canals, and other works herein authorized, including the appropriation, delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, irrigation, or other uses, and all users of water thus delivered and all users and appropriators of...
Page 40 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from the waters which are surplus...
Page 2 - Dam fund" (hereinafter referred to as the "fund"), and to be available, as hereafter provided, only for carrying out the provisions of this act. All revenues received in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid into and expenditures shall be made out of the fund, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 412 - For when the Revolution took place, the people of each State became themselves sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the General Government.