Bridge Canyon ProjectUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 569 pages |
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acre-feet of water acre-foot acreage acres agricultural All-American Canal allocated amount of water apportionment Ariz average beneficial consumptive bill Boulder Canyon Project Boulder Dam Bridge Canyon Bureau of Reclamation Canyon Project Act CARSON central Arizona project Chairman MURDOCK Colorado River compact Colorado River system Colorado River water committee Congress construction contract Coolidge Dam cost County crops delivered depletion diversion estimated farm farmers Federal feet figures Gila River Hoover Dam Imperial irrigation district kilowatt-hour Lake Mead land Lee Ferry Limitation Act lower basin main stream MATTHEW Mexico million acre-feet Nevada Norviel operation paragraph percent period PETERSON PHILLIPS Phoenix present production pumping question reservoir Salt River Valley San Carlos project Secretary Senator DOWNEY Senator MCFARLAND Senator MILLIKIN statement storage surplus waters tion treaty tributaries unapportioned United upper basin Utah water apportioned water available water rights water supply water users WHITE
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Page 514 - ... (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 3 - 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 - 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 512 - Further equitable apportionment of the beneficial uses of the waters of the Colorado River System unapportioned by paragraphs (a), (b), and (c), may be made in the manner provided in paragraph (g) at any time after October 1, 1963, if and when either Basin shall have reached its total beneficial consumptive use as set out in paragraphs (a) and (b).
Page 272 - 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 1,000,000 acre-feet per annum.
Page 270 - Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this act, that the aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) of water of and from the Colorado River for use in the State of California...
Page 291 - ... 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 489 - 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 266 - 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, there shall be apportioned to the State of Nevada 300,000 acre-feet and to the State of Arizona 2,800,000 acre-feet for exclusive beneficial consumptive use in perpetuity...
Page 474 - Arizona shall have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of the Gila River and its tributaries...