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<br />o <br />w <br />~ <br />00 <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />30 <br /> <br /> <br />I: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />In questions directed at Mr. Bashore, Commissioner of the <br />Bureau of Reclamation, Senator Millikin expanded the <br />above in the following exchange: <br /> <br />Senator Millikin. Let us assume now an equated <br />stream. Let us assume we have completed our works <br />in the upper and lower basins. Will there not be lands <br />in the upper basiu that could be irrigated, if they had <br />the water, that will not be irrigated because there will <br />not be enough water to irrigate all possible lands sub- <br />ject to irrigation ~ <br />Mr. Bashore. That is correct. <br />Senator Millikin. So does that not mean that in <br />Colorado, for example, we will be making the same <br />intensive use of return flow at that distant date that <br />we are making in some parts of our State on the east- <br />ern slope ~ <br />Mr. Bashore. Oh, yes. <br />Senator Millikin. And as we makc that use and re- <br />use of return flow, we will be adding to the salinity of <br />the water ~ <br />Mr. Bashore. Yes; that is true. <br />Senator Millikin. And that water with the added <br />salinity will pass on down to Utah, and Utah will be <br />doing the same thing wit.h her return flow, and thns <br />when the waters :finally reach Mead Lake, they will be <br />a lot. more saline t.han they are at the present time ~ <br />Mr. Bashore. I think so. <br />Senator Millikin. Under the [Colorado River] com- <br />pact. there is no guaranty among the St.ates of the <br />npper basin that. set.s a saline ceiling, one Stat.e against <br />anot.hed <br />Mr. Bashore. Or one basin against. t.he ot.her. <br />Senator Millikin. '1'he lower basin will have to take <br />the wat.er with t.he salinity t.hat it. carries dne to our <br />use and reuse in t.he upper basin of ret.urn flows, will <br />it not., so far as t.he int.erstat.e compact. is concerned 1 <br />Mr. Bashore. Yes. <br />Senator Millikin. Then the waters that come back <br />as retttrn flew in the lower basin, that would pass to <br />Mexico in saline condition, are in that condition be- <br />cause of the normal 'methods of operating irrigated <br />lands,. is not that true? <br />Mr. Bashore. That is right. <br /> <br />, <br />I' <br />I <br />I <br />i <br />I <br /> <br />Ii <br />Ii <br />i <br />I <br />i <br />I <br />i <br />, <br />! <br /> <br />".,~t' . ',~- "'-T'-~"--' - 'y".- <br /> <br />. "-'-'---~----;>'--""""-'-~'_.'~~'"",,!>"''''''''''''''-O''''''' <br />