WSP09662

• File Number: 8210.120
• Description: Colorado River Basin States Committee ‎(AKA Colorado River Compact Commission)‎
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/15/1952
• Author: CRBSC
• Title: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Colorado River Basin States Committee
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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where that water is used."

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"Don't you think Arizona has got anythingtp say about where I

He s!3.id, It I don It think I
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AnYi time that water
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is impounded behind a dam that the Government controls, nobody
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but the Secretary of the Interior has a wor~ to say about
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You are going tb have the same
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water is to be used in Arizona?"

that
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have got a thing to say about it.

thing up here.

That is one step.

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The next step is, when they built! that dam at Parker
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they flooded a lot or the area back or the ~am and in this
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flooded area they apparently created a verYj ideal situation

ror ducks and geese, and particularly for geese. Apparently

there are only some over 5,000 of this part~cular kind of
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geese lert in this country. They nest and breed in Minnesota

or Ohio, back in the Midwest, and then they! come out there to
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this place, and then they go on down to the I Yaqui River some-

where in Mexico later on. I

When they started this channeliZi~g work by Needles
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they dried up this place that these geese h~d been feeding

and apparently some of them died. They tel~ me literally

thousands of letters from these game peoPlel went into the

Secretary or the Interior. They went in frbm allover the
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country, including the Midwest, and they sa'id, "You have got
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to protect these geese." So Chapman issuedl a temporary order

to do something about it. I don't know WhO! is going to be
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charged with this water in the long run. ,

In the meantime, a representative! of the State of

Arizona--supposedto be a representative ofl the State of
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