WSP09291

• File Number: 8220.200.05.P
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 5/3/1979
• Author: USACOE
• Title: Transcript of a Public Hearing for Re-evaluation of A Flood Control Operation Plan for Hoover Dam: Yuma AZ
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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MR. MELLON: All that you can, but I think we

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need to go further --

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PRESIDING OFFICER: Oh, okay.

MR. MELLON: -- in your study and not stop at

the International Boundary. Now the River is fairly clean

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from the International Boundary north. It has been disked,

it has been brushed. But south there is not only brush in

the River, there are houses and farms and people living in

the river bottom south of the International Boundary.

PRESIDING OFFICER: I appreciate that and

we certainly take it into account.

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MR. MELLON: That's not bullshit. That's a

fact.

And I'd sure as hell not like to see them get

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drowned or their animals washed away or their farms washed

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away. I think I'll sit down.

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PRESIDING OFFICER: Thank you. Now, let's

see, he still wanted an answer I believe to one question.

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Somebody to answer it about his concern of backing up into

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Yuma County. Does someone here know that answer to that

question? Yes, sir, come on up will you? Well, identify

yourself, please, and talk into the --

MR. TAYLOR: I'm J. T. Taylor. I'm a member

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Imperial Dam was a hundred and fifty-nine (159) feet above

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the lowest part of the River down in Mexico at that time and

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