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<br />OU1247 <br /> <br />and contributes to some extent financially. The state has <br /> <br />had contracts with the Bureau under which it contributed funds <br /> <br />for investigations. In this fiscal year the state will contribute <br /> <br />$80,000 to the planning work of the S C S in its program under <br />Public Law 566. <br /> <br />Basic data is essential to comprehensive planning, manage- <br /> <br />ment and conservative use of water resources. The New Mexico <br /> <br />Interstate Stream Commission and the State Engineer currently <br /> <br />spend about $265,000 annually in programs carried out in coopera- <br /> <br />tion with the U. S. Geological Survey for investigations and <br /> <br />for the collection of basic data concerning our water resources. <br /> <br />l'later Salvage <br /> <br />One of the most serious water resource problems facing <br /> <br />New l-lcxico, among other western states, is the large and increas- <br /> <br />ing depletion of water supply by the growth of nonbeneficial <br /> <br />plants such as salt cedar in and ulong our streams. <br /> <br />In 1950 the Bureau of Reclamation estimated that nonbeneficial <br /> <br />losses from the Rio Grande in New Mexico amounted to about 570,000 <br /> <br />.acre feet annually exclusive of evaporation from reservoirs. <br /> <br />A large part of this loss resulted from the need for flood and <br /> <br />sediment control and improved drainage and related losses to <br /> <br />salt cedar and other phz'eatophytes. <br />An attack ':In this problem was launched with the authorization <br /> <br />5 <br />