Bridge Canyon Project, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ... 80-1, on S. 1175 ..., June 23 -July 3, 19471948 - 569 pages |
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acre-feet annually acre-feet of water acre-foot acreage acres additional agricultural All-American Canal allocated amount of water apportionment Ariz average beneficial consumptive benefit bill Boulder Canyon Project Bridge Canyon Bureau of Reclamation Canyon Project Act central Arizona project Chairman MURDOCK Colorado River compact Colorado River system Colorado River water committee Congress construction contract cost crops delivered depletion diversion engineer estimated farm Federal figures Gila River Hoover Dam Imperial Imperial irrigation district irrigation district kilowatt-hours Lake Mead land LARSON Lee Ferry Limitation Act lower basin main stream MATTHEW Mexico million acre-feet Nevada Norviel operation paragraph percent period PETERSON PHILLIPS Phoenix power plant present proposed pumping question reclamation law repayment reservoir revenues Salt River Valley Secretary Senator DOWNEY Senator MCFARLAND Senator MILLIKIN statement storage surplus waters tion treaty tributaries underground United upper basin water available water rights water supply water users waters unapportioned
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Page 516 - ... (c) 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 over and above the aggregate of the quantities specified in paragraphs (a) and (b...
Page 5 - 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 6 - President by public proclamation shall have so declared, and, further — and this is the important provision — until the State of California, by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this act...
Page 244 - No person shall have or be entitled to have the use for any purpose of the water stored as aforesaid except by contract made as herein stated.
Page 491 - State, and (4) that the waters of the Gila River and its tributaries, except return flow after the same enters the Colorado River, shall never be subject to any diminution whatever by any allowance of water which may be made by treaty or otherwise to the United States of Mexico...
Page 293 - ... and if such surplus shall prove insufficient for this purpose, then, the burden of such deficiency shall be equally borne by the upper basin and the lower basin, and whenever necessary the States of the upper division shall deliver at Lee Ferry water to supply onehalf of the deficiency so recognized in addition to that provided in paragraph (</). (d...
Page 6 - The States of Arizona, California, and Nevada are authorized to enter into an agreement which shall provide (1) that of the 7,500,000 acre-feet annually apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact...
Page 2 - ... the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to irrigation and probably be repaid by the water users; (4) the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to power and probably be returned to the United States in net power revenues...
Page 315 - 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 515 - In addition to the apportionment in paragraph (a) the Lower Basin is hereby given the right to increase its beneficial consumptive use of such waters by one million acre-feet per annum.