4201

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 4201
• Author: Anonymous.
• Title: Controversy in the Mid '60's
• USFW Year: n.d.
• USFW - Doc Type: Unsolved Questions.
• Copyright Material: YES

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Water Supply

Don't Allocate

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Los Angeles
suggests a bold
plan to bolster an
over-burdened
Colorado River the
better to serve
a three-state area

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By SAMUEL B. NELSON, General Manager and Chief Engineer
Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles, Calif.

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A RI ZONA

PHOENIX
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The proposed 519-mile aqueduct running from the Snake River
through eastern Nevada to lake Mead would guarantee full
utilization of the Colorado River Aqueduct plus ample
water for the proposed Central Arizona Project
and other planned developments in Nevada.

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. The Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power believes that it is
far more. practical to increase a
water supply, where pos~ible, than
to allocate the shortage. In our
case, borrowing from a river having
surplus water to m~
hClencv of an alrea ed
river appears to be the best solu-
tIOn.
The Suoreme Court's decisiQD
clearing the way for Arizona to u1c
an additional 1,200,000 acre-feet of
Colorado River water annually for
its Central Arizona nroiect force-
fully awakened the Southwest to,thc
need for a regional water plan. The
decision limits California to 4,400,-
000 acre-feet of water from the
Colorado River on the basis of an
annual supply of 7,500,000 acre-
feet of mainstream water in the
lower Colorado basin, Estimat~
place the minimum effect of thc
Coures decisIon ~t ~ TPnnrtlnn cl
about 662.000 acre-feet per vear,
or more than 50% in thp future
flow of the Metrooolitan Water Dis-
trIct's (MWD) Co]or~dn Rivcr
Aaueduct
The impact of this decision als,'
brought into sharp focus the lon~-
known fact that there simnlv is nl'.!
enough water in the Colorado ~i~:~r
to meet the demands of eXlsU~f

Mr. Nelson outlined the proposed Sn:l~'
Colorado project in a talk 00 water sUI>-
ply at the Los Angeles Conference (}ll
the Super-City of Tomorrow.

March 1965 . THE AMERICAN CITY