WSP10917

• File Number: 8220.200.05.P
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 4/30/1979
• Author: USACOE
• Title: Transcript of a Public Hearing for Re-evaluation of A Flood Control Operation Plan for Hoover Dam: Needles CA
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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by the United States and from rele.sing water oontrolled by

the United StAte. other than in accordance with the following

order of prioritya Pirat priority, for River regulation,

improvement, navigation, and flood oontrol. '1'hat'. the

first priority. Second priority, for irriqation, dome.tic

uaea inaludinq the .atisfaction of pre.ent perfected rlqht.,

and three (3), for power. Siailarly, the authorl11ng

legislation, the Boulder Canyon Project Act of Deoeaber 21at,

1928, provide. quote, -That the dam and ra.ervoir provided

for by Section 1 h~r.of ahall be used, first, for River

regulation and improvement of naviq.tioD and flood control-.

That'. the first priority.

In addition, the enablinq

legislation for the construction ot Davi. Dam called for

better regulation of the Colorado River. It followa, therefore,

with respect to the various release alternatives, that the t'
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lowest pos.ible maximum should be oho..n.wbl1e'.tll1 providln

the best pO..lble flood control. In addition, while your

study refers only to Hoover Dam, my prlm:ory oc;n8ideration

1a the flow at Heed1.., which depends upon the operation of

Oavis Daln, the inflowlJ above Davis Dam, and the posdbl.

inflow8 between Davis and Ne.dl.s. It .eema to m. that the

firat responaibility of the Bureau of Reclamation and the

corpa of EDgin..r. is to adjust the operatlnq criteria .0 ..

to accompli.h the flood control specified by Congre.. and the

Supreme Court. I therefore reel that it 18 your respondbl11 y

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