WSP12165

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/1/1963
• Author: PSIAC
• Title: Pacific Southwest Water Plan - Report - August 1963
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RECMlENDATIONS

After a 12-year moratorium on action, Congress should be asked
to authorize the initial phase of a self-liquidating water resources
development program for the Pacific Southwest region.

To assist in repaying the costs of the initial phase of projects
authorized, and to provide funds for future water development programs,
Congress should be asked to estabIish a Pacific Southwest Development
Fund. Construction costs and interest during construction would be
paid out of this fund. Surplus revenues from water and power sales
would fIow into the Fund. Power revenues to aid water development
programs in the region from Hoover and Parker-Davis Dams would also
begin accruing immediately after the termination of the 50-year payout
of these two projects. Expenditures from the Fund would be made only
under the authority and the direction of the Congress.

The eIements in the initial phase pIan should include the foIlowing:

a. Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon Dams and Powerplants on the
main stream of the Colorado River, including transmission
and appurtenant facilities;

b. Enlargement of the California State Water Project aqueduct;

c. The Central Arizona Project;

d. Authorization of a large desalting plant on the seacoast in
southern California and intensified studies under the Anderson-
AspinaIl Act on the feasibility of more such pIanta;

e. The Southern Nevada Water Supply Project, first stage, to
provide up to 90,000 acre-feet annually by 1968 for the
growing Boulder City, Henderson, and Las Vegas areas by
pumping from Lake Mead to the service areas;

f. The Dixie Project in southwestern Utah to provide about
60,000 acre-feet annuaIly, starting in 1970, for irrigation
and municipal and industriaI purposes;

g. The Hooker Dam Project in New Mexico (a unit of the Central
Arizona Project), with completion by 1974, to control and
regulate erratic storm and winter season runoff, to stabilize
flows for downstream agricul tural purposes, and for municipal
and industrial uses in the Silver City and Tyrone areas;

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