The Colorado River Question: Shall Natural Resources Create Local Or Enlarge Distant Development?Colorado River Commission of Arizona, 1928 - 16 páginas |
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acre feet acre-feet acres now irrigated actually Angeles Arizona Acceptance Arizona and California Arizona and Nevada assist California August 22 beneficial purposes bill pretends boundaries California and Arizona canals cheaper Colo Colorado River Basin Colorado River Compact Colorado River controversy COMPROMISE DIVISION CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS construction dam and reservoir Denver divided between Arizona equal division evaporation loss exempt federal government Federal Power Commission feet of water flood control GRAND CANYON hydro-electric energy hydro-electric power ifornia Imperial Valley irrigable land Lee Ferry left to adjudication Line 15 Lines 16 Los Angeles lower basin main Colorado River main stream MARBLE D.S. power plants power resources pretends to limit projects protection of Arizona's Reclamation Law River below Lee sea level settled law settlement storage Swing-Johnson Bill Topock treaty tributaries situated tributary waters United States government upper basin Upper Division Utah and Wyoming WATER DIVISION PROPOSED water made available WHEREAS Yuma
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Página 10 - when that can be done without substantial impairment of the interests of the public in the waters, and subject always to the paramount right of Congress to control the navigation so far as may be necessary for the regulation of commerce with foreign nations and
Página 10 - WHEREAS, It is the settled law of this country that the ownership of and dominion and sovereignty over lands covered by navigable waters within the limits of the several states of the Union belong to the respective states within which they are found,
Página 9 - commission of three has been appointed by the President to co-operate with representatives of the United States of Mexico in a study regarding the equitable use of the waters of the Colorado River and other international waters for the purpose of securing information on which to
Página 11 - of the tributaries of the Colorado River emptying into the River below Lee Ferry not apportioned in paragraph (2) each of the States of the Lower Basin shall have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of such tributaries within its boundaries before the same empty into the main
Página 12 - to at least an even division of the water available for the use of Arizona and California out of the main stream of the Colorado River. That we do not do so is due to a desire, the earnestness and sincerity of which we trust will no
Página 10 - and the duly authorized and appointed commissioners of the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, constituting the Colorado River Basin states, assembled at Denver, Colorado, this
Página 8 - States— shall be legally available to and divided between Arizona, California, and Nevada, as follows : (A) To Nevada, 300,000 acre-feet per annum. (B) The remainder, after such deductions as may be made to care for Mexican lands allotted by treaty, shall be equally divided between Arizona and California.
Página 12 - the specific condition that the use of said waters between the States of the lower Basin shall be without prejudice to the rights of the States of the Upper Basin to further apportionment of water as provided by the Colorado River Compact.
Página 8 - That any compact dividing the water of the Colorado River and its tributaries shall not impair the rights of the States under the respective water laws to control the appropriation of water within their boundaries.
Página 8 - That the waters of the streams tributary to the Colorado River below Lees Ferry and which are inadequate to develop the irrigable lands of their own valleys be reserved to the States in which they are located.