The Hoover Dam DocumentsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 168 pages |
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1st sess 2d sess 70th Cong acre-feet acre-feet of water acres Adjustment Act agreement All-American Canal allocation allottees amended amount and/or annual appendix apportionment appropriation approved aqueduct arbitration Arizona Article authorized beneficial consumptive bill Boulder Canyon Project Boulder Dam Boulder Power Plant Canyon Project Act City Coachella Valleys Colorado River Basin Colorado River Compact Colorado River System Commissioner Committee on Irrigation Congress construction cost delivered delivery of water District of Southern diversion Edison Company electrical energy firm energy flow hereinafter hereof hereunder Hoover Dam Imperial Dam Imperial Irrigation District Imperial Valley Interior Irrigation and Reclamation June Lake Mead lands Lee Ferry Legislature lower basin ment Metropolitan Water District Mexico Nevada Operating Agent parties hereto payment percent priority ratified regulations reservoir San Diego secondary energy Secretary Senate Southern California Southern California Edison Stat storage tion treaty tributaries United upper basin Utah Wyoming
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Page A-184 - 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 38 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page A-784 - 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 A-89 - In America, the powers of sovereignty are divided between the government of the Union and those of the States. They are each sovereign, with respect to the objects committed to it, and neither sovereign with respect to the objects committed to the other.
Page A-90 - Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Page A-382 - First, for river regulation, improvement of navigation, and flood control ; second, for irrigation and domestic uses and satisfaction of present perfected rights in pursuance of Article VIII of said Colorado River compact ; and third, for power.
Page A-543 - SETTLEMENT, entered into this - day of , 19.. between the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (hereinafter called "the Government") represented by the Contracting Officer executing this contract, and...
Page A-883 - Wherever, by virtue of the provisions of the Treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed in Washington on February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico...
Page A-20 - Inasmuch as the Colorado River has ceased to be navigable for commerce and the reservation of its waters for navigation would seriously limit the development of its basin, the use of its waters for purposes of navigation shall be subservient to the uses of such waters for domestic, agricultural and power purposes.
Page A-214 - Section 14 hereof, the commission is authorized to issue a new license to the original licensee upon such terms and conditions as may be authorized or required under the then existing laws and regulations...