Central Arizona Project: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 1658, a Bill to Authorize, Construct, and Maintain the Central Arizona Project, Arizona-New Mexico, and for Other Purposes ... |
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... water supply of the mainstream is insufficient to furnish annually 4.4 million acre - feet of consumptive use to California , 2.8 million to Arizona , and 300,000 to Nevada , ' the water available shall be prorated among them , thus ...
... water supply of the mainstream is insufficient to furnish annually 4.4 million acre - feet of consumptive use to California , 2.8 million to Arizona , and 300,000 to Nevada , ' the water available shall be prorated among them , thus ...
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... water supply availability were made upon the basis of the most recent water supply records . The economic and financial analysis also has been revised to the extent necessary to reflect congressional and adminis- trative criteria made ...
... water supply availability were made upon the basis of the most recent water supply records . The economic and financial analysis also has been revised to the extent necessary to reflect congressional and adminis- trative criteria made ...
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... water available to the Arizona project , but it would mean cutting off a ... supply available as it is needed . There is no question in my mind but what ... supply of water in northern California that could be transported to southern ...
... water available to the Arizona project , but it would mean cutting off a ... supply available as it is needed . There is no question in my mind but what ... supply of water in northern California that could be transported to southern ...
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... water supply . 4. The effect of the project upon other areas . 5. Economic and financial feasibility of the proposed project . I will discuss these elements in that order . PROBLEMS AND NEEDS OF THE AREA The basic problem of Arizona and ...
... water supply . 4. The effect of the project upon other areas . 5. Economic and financial feasibility of the proposed project . I will discuss these elements in that order . PROBLEMS AND NEEDS OF THE AREA The basic problem of Arizona and ...
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... water that is locally available but appropriated by down stream water users in exchange for replacement import water ... supply available , are now being urbanized . The water needs of such areas , therefore , must be supplied from new ...
... water that is locally available but appropriated by down stream water users in exchange for replacement import water ... supply available , are now being urbanized . The water needs of such areas , therefore , must be supplied from new ...
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Page 707 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 607 - 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...
Page 707 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 249 - Nothing herein shall be construed as interfering with such rights as the States now have, either to the waters within their borders or to adopt such policies and enact such laws as they may deem necessary with respect to the appropriation, control, and use of waters within their borders, except as modified by the Colorado River compact or other interstate agreement.
Page 707 - ... and upon payment of twenty-five cents per acre, to file a declaration under oath with the register and the receiver of the land district in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the same, within the period of three years thereafter...
Page 744 - California, by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the States of Arizona...
Page 744 - 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 332 - 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 601 - ... a watershed or area wherein water originates, or an area immediately adjacent thereto which can conveniently be supplied with water therefrom, shall not be deprived by the...
Page 280 - ... shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction is initiated, on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations, which are neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from date of issue.