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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Millie? I see you shaking your head.

MILLIE: I don't think they should get down

there on that floodplain period.

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MR. MELLON: That's right. That's why we

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rip rapped the River all the way up. What I'd like to do,

is kind of a potent statement, is cut the bullshit. \~at

happens if that Painted Rock Dam slips? It's seeping a

little now. What happens if that water just goes running out

of there?

PRESIDING OFFICER: The answer to that -- you

don't even need to ask that question. If it happens you're

going to have quite a flow of .water down here. But let me

reassure you of something, because I hate to have anybody

tend to give any doubt or any suspicion to any unsafe or to

the integrity of a structure up there. It's gone through

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it was built with good integrity. It's still got great

integrity. The amount of tile seep up there is not

unexpected. It was predicted four (4) years ago as a matter

of fact. It's completely safe. It's being monitored

twenty-four (24) hours a day, not because we think it's

unsafe, but because we're not going to be complacent about it.

And because I think that's the second sin, is becoming

complacent. And as far as a closing statement, we've still

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