WSP11415

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/25/1957
• Author: H A Hunt
• Title: The Washoe Project - Statement of H A Hunt Before the Meeting of the PSIAC March 25 1957
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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6. An agreement with water users in Carson Valley to limit
their diversitllllll to ideal irrigation requirements.

7. An agreement with Carson River water users for exchange

of water on the Carson'River salvaged by Washoe project works

for natural flow water of the Carson River.

A joint C~ifornia-Nevada. Interstate Conq;>act Connnission has been

formed to settle water rights of the States on the Truckse, Carson, and
W~ker Rivers. The early completion of the compact would be of material

help in preconstruction activities for the Washoe project.

Work is progressing on the solution of problems and agreements and

a Definite Plan Report is being prepared and should be completed late in

F.Y. 1958. Soon after the report is approved, construction will get

underway and will probably cOllJlllence with the Stam;pede Reservoir on the
Little Truckee River. Constructiop of all project features is programed

for completion in about 10 years assuming funds will be appropriated for

that pUIpose.

Completion of the Definite Plan Report and construction of the proj-

ect will require close coordinated planning and EJ,ction on the part of

local, State, and Federal agencies. The loc~ al'iencies will be primarily
concerned with the formation of a Conservancy District, with many of the

agreements previously ment:l,oned, with repayment and operating contracts,

and with many coordinating details of a multi-purpose project of this

siz:e. The States of C~ifo:rnia and Nevada. will be most interested in

the water rights, water right agreements, the relationship of the proj-

ect to the forthcoming compact, and to the fish, wildJ.ife, and recrea-

tional aspects of the project.

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