Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colo: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, First Session on S.964, a Bill to Authorize the Construction, Operation, and Maintenance by the Secretary of the Interior of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado. June 15 and 16, 1953U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - 346 pages |
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acre acre-feet acre-feet of water acre-foot allocated annual approved Arkansas project Arkansas River Compact Arkansas Valley Aspen Reservoir BEISE benefits Boulder Canyon Project BREITENSTEIN Bureau of Reclamation California Canal capacity Colo Colorado River Basin Colorado River compact Colorado River system Colorado River water Colorado Springs Colorado Water Conservation Colorado-Big Thompson project committee Congress construction contract contractor cost Creek ditch engineer estimated facilities Federal fish and wildlife flood control flow Fryingpan Fryingpan River Fryingpan-Arkansas project Governor AANDAHL Gunnison-Arkansas project Interior irrigation lower basin million acre-feet operating principles PATTERSON percent plant POWELL power and energy present proposed Pueblo Reservoir repayment revenues Roaring Fork River Secretary Senator ANDERSON Senator JACKSON Senator JOHNSON Senator MILLIKIN Senator WATKINS storage supplemental water tion TIPTON transmission transmountain diversion Twin Lakes Reservoir United upper basin upper Colorado River Water Conservation Board Water Conservation District water users western Colorado western slope
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Page 227 - River within or for the benefit of the Lower Basin, then claims of such rights, if any, by appropriators or users of water in the Lower Basin against appropriators...
Page 49 - Subcommittee on Benefits and Costs of the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, Proposed Practices for Economic Analysis of River Basin Projects: Report to the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, May, 1950.
Page 19 - ... at least sufficient to cover an appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost, interest on an appropriate share of the construction investment at not less than 3 per centum per annum, and such other fixed charges as the Secretary deems proper...
Page 238 - 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); 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...
Page 238 - 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...
Page 239 - 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 1 - Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws, Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto...
Page 210 - 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 15 - Act, as amended; that any such works or facilities shall be designed, constructed, and operated in such a manner that the present appropriations of water, and in addition thereto prospective uses of water for irrigation and other beneficial...
Page 228 - Act shall be subject to and controlled by the Colorado River compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act...