WSP10458

• File Number: 8210.110.60
• Description: Colorado River Water Users Association
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 12/1/1960
• Author: CRWUA
• Title: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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on those of the Lower Basin than on those of the Upper Basin, But now,
as we are making our constructive development in the Upper Basin and
are seeing some of our great hopes become realities and our sacrifices
of yesterday bearing the fruits of success today, I realize that the
people of the Lower Basin were many years ahead of us in. planning for
and bringing into existence the great benefits with which they are now
favored.

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The Federal Congress has kept in close touch with its share of
responsibility throughout the years as the facilities of the Lower Basin
took their place, one by one, in the service of the people of that favored
area. With but few minor exceptions, the whole program has been one
of outstanding success, Of course there are problems which continually
present themselves, but one needs only to look at the overall picture to
see what has taken place and how water, instead of being an agency of des-
truction, has become a servile agency of service to peoples.

Now, we in the Upper Basin are seeing our facilities being con-
structed, With us, also, there has been much wise planning, wise con-
struction and operation by private individuals --- but located as we have
been in the area which is ours, it has been necessary that we, too, receive
the benefits of federal investment. Perhaps it has been more necessary
for us of the Upper Basin to join in united efforts of planning, constructing,
and future operation and maintenance than it was even in the Lower Basin.
At least I think that I can say that one of the great steps forward for con-
structive and effective development of the Colorado River was the entering
into the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Agreement by the Upper Basin
States. Not until this Compact was agreed upon by the parties thereto and
approved by the federal government was it possible for the Upper Basin area
to present a position before the Federal Congress that entitled it to consid-
eration by the federal government.

Since the Compact was finally approved, the Upper BasinStates have
been able to move forward rapidly toward the realization of their dreams,
With the approval of the Upper Colorado River Storage and Development Act
legislation and its attendant authorizations of specific projects, and the estab-
lishment of the Basin Fund from which contributions to the various states
will make possible the building of the smaller but most necessary Partici-
pating Projects, the federal government through its Congress and its Chief
Executive gave its approval of the largest and most far-reaching single
reclamation project the world has ever known. It is to the credit of the
people of the Upper Basin that the projects authorized, those now under con-
struction and those to be constructed later on, conform in every detail with
policy established through the Reclamation Act of 1902 and all Acts amenda-
tory thereto. Projects in this great program not only must possess physical,

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