WMOD00304 ‎(2)‎

• Project Name: CREST
• Title: Colorado River Enhanced Snowpack Test
• Date: 1/1/1982
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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ENHANCEMENT POTENTIAL

TOTAL ADDITIONAL WATER
(in thousands of acre-feet)

UPPER BASIN 1,432
LOWER BASIN 298
ADJACENT BASINS -ll.!
TOTAL 2,263

_ High Water - Yield Areas

AUTHORIiY

The Secretary of the Interior's
responsibilities in the Colorado
River Basin include the regulation
and operation of the river, contracts
for water, declaring water surplus or
shortage~ accounting for all the
water of the Basin, supplying water
to Mexico, and preparing and
developing augmentation plans to meet
water requirements.

Congressional direction to the
Secretary of the Interior on
augmenting water supplies in the
Coloraao River Basin is contained in:

--ColoradO River Basin Act af 1968
(?uDlic Law 90-537), which directs
the Secretaryl'.. .to provi de a program

for the further comprehensive
development of the water resources of
the Colorado River Basin and for the
provision of additional and adequate
water supplies for use in the Upper
as well as the Lower Colorado River
Basin." Under title II of this Act,
the Secretary is authorized to
prepare an augmentation plan to meet
the water requirements of new
projects, existing projects, current
water allotments, and the 1944 Water
Treaty with ~exico.

--Colorado River Basin Salinity
Control Act of 1974 (PuDlic Law
93-320), which authorized and
directed the Secretary to proceed
with a program of works of
improvement for the enhancement and
protection of the quality of water in
the Coloraao River.

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