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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8220.200.05.A
Description
Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
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Colorado Mainstem
Date
1/1/1950
Title
The Story of Hoover Dam: Conservation Bulletin No. 9
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<br />n 1757 <br /> <br />It became increasingly clear that the division of waters between the indi- <br />vidual States could not be accomplished at that time. The only alternative <br />was to divide the waters between the two basins, and this concept of water <br />division gradually gathered momentum. <br />In 1920, at a meeting of representatives of the Governors of the basin States, <br />a proposal for an interstate compact was endorsed. Each of the seven States <br />of the basin authorized the appointment of commissioners to frame the <br />"compact." <br />The commission was presided over by Secretary of Commerce Herbert <br />Hoover on behalf of the United States. After a series of meetings in Washing. <br />ton, D. c., followed by meetings at various places in the Colorado River <br />watershed, the Colorado River Compact was initialed by representatives of <br />the seven States on November 24, 1922, at Santa Fe, New Mexico. <br />The compact adopted Lee Ferry as the point of division between the upper <br />and lower basins and effected an allocation of 7500000 acre-feet each vear <br />to each basin, and in addition gave to the lower basi; the right to increas~ its <br />beneficial consumptive use by 1,000,000 acre-feet per annum. The compact <br />made no allocation of water as between the States in each basin. <br /> <br />from the Treasury of $16.5,000,000. A condition precedent to the construc- <br />tion of the dam was that the Secretary of the Interior should provide for <br />revenues adequate to insure operation, maintenance, and amortization. These <br />revenues were to repay, within 50 years, all advances for the construction of <br />Hoover Dam power plant and appurtenant works with interest, f?xcept <br />$25,000,000 for flood control, which is to be repaid without interest, and <br />repayment is to be postponed until after the interest-bearing portion of the <br />debt is paid. Revenues are to come mainly from the sale of electric energy <br />generated at the dam. <br />The necessary contracts for the sale of energy for the payment of the dam <br />were speedily negotiated. <br />The stage for the drama of actual construction was set. Work could begin. <br />The Bureau of Reclamation had a job, which would draw to the uttermost <br />on its quarter of a century of experience and skill. <br /> <br />Blasting un the road being constructed by the Si.". Companies about half a mile <br />downstream from Hoover dam site. <br /> <br />The 'loulder Canyon Project Act <br /> <br />On December 21, 1923, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, presented to <br />Congress in the fourth Swing-Johnson bill, became law. <br />As passed, the Boulder Canyon Project Act- <br />Approved the Colorado River Compact and provided that in the event only <br />six States should ratify, the compact should become effective as a six-State <br />compact, provided that California should agree to limit her use of water for <br />the benefit of the other six States; <br />Authorized the construction of a .dam at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon; <br />Authorized construction of an All-American Canal connecting the Imperial <br />and Coachella Valleys with the Colorado River, and <br />Authorized the expenditure of $165,000,000 for construction of the entire <br />project. <br /> <br />Six of the States immediaiely ratified the compact. Arizona withheld <br />ratification until February 1944. <br />Authorization of the great dam listed the following purposes: <br /> <br />(l) Flood control; <br />(2) Improvement of navigation and regulation of the flow of the Colorado <br />River; <br />(3) Storage and delivery of the stored waters of the Colorado River for <br />reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the <br />United States, and <br />(4) Generation of electric energy. <br /> <br />The act established a special fund for financing construction which was <br />designated as the Colorado River Dam fund, and authorized the transfer to it <br /> <br />re_ ~._~ _:~~'_';\""~_~"0.> ","",,"f!!!!'"""~'='~'--<:Y ~~ <br /> <br />!it <br /> <br />k;; <br /> <br />ffj <br /> <br />f: <br /> <br />t'f;' <br /> <br />,'t'; <br /> <br />.{,tl <br />.. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br />11 <br />
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