The Colorado River: A Natural Menace Becomes a National Resource : a General Plan for the Development and Utilization of the Water Resources of the Colorado River Basin for Irrigation, Power Production, and Other Beneficial Uses in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming |
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acre-feet acres agricultural All-American Canal Ariz Arizona benefits Boulder Canyon Project Boulder Dam BOULDER DIVISION Bridge Canyon Bureau of Reclamation canal Colo Colorado River Basin Colorado River Compact construction COOPERATING INTERESTS cost crops depletion District drainage estimated export farms feet flood control Fork GILA DIVISION Gila River Grand Canyon GRAND DIVISION GREEN DIVISION Green River ground water ground-water Gunnison River increase Indian industrial installed capacity irrigated area irrigated land irrigation development kilowatt-hours kilowatts Lake Mead Lee Ferry Little Colorado River livestock load located Lower Basin Lower Colorado River Mexico miles mineral mining mountain National Park Nevada operation percent potential projects power developments power plant present production pumping Reservation reservoir Salt River SAN JUAN DIVISION San Juan River scenic silt southern California storage stream flow Subtotal supplemental water TABLE Total tributaries United Upper Basin Utah utilization water resources water supply Wyoming Yampa River Yuma
Popular passages
Page 7 - The States of the upper division will not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of 10 consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact.
Page 22 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.
Page 45 - Interior is hereby authorized to construct if deemed necessary or advisable by him upon engineering or economic considerations, with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California, the expenditures for said main canal and appurtenant structures to be reimbursable, as provided in the reclamation law...
Page 45 - 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...
Page 39 - This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States.
Page 40 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico...
Page 50 - In the event of extraordinary drought or serious accident to the irrigation system in the United States, thereby making it difficult for the United States to deliver the guaranteed quantity of 1,500,000 acre-feet...
Page 51 - The Commission shall construct, operate and maintain in the limitrophe section of the Colorado River, and each Section shall construct, operate and maintain in the territory of its own country on the Colorado River below Imperial Dam and on all other carrying facilities used for the delivery of water to Mexico, all necessary gaging stations and other measuring devices for the purpose of keeping a complete record of the waters delivered to Mexico and of the flows of the river. All data obtained as...