Correspondences Related to CREST and Funding of CREST Program

• Description: Correspondences Related to CREST and Funding of CREST Program
• State: CO
• Title: Correspondences Related to CREST and Funding of CREST Program
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Correspondence

126
UPPER GREEN -
CREST
ENHANCEMENT POTENTIAL
29
UINTA 1'
103 130
0
66
PARK RANGE
75
5 273 CENTRAL COLORADO
1. WHITE RIVER PLATEAU
40 2. GRAND MESA
3. UPPER COLORADO
191 25 SAN JUAN 4. GUNNISON
116 TOTAL ADDITIONAL WATER
^l f� (in thousands of acre -feet)
60 UPPER BASIN 1,432
LOWER BASIN 298
ADJACENT BASINS 533
TOTAL 21263
s_ MOGOLLON RIM
3T 1111110 High Water - Yield Areas
AUTHORITY
for the further comprehensive
development of the water resources of
The Secretary of the Interior's
the Colorado River Basin and for the
responsibilities in the Colorado
provision of additiona•1 and adequate
River Basin include the regulation
water supplies for use in the Upper
and operation of the river, contracts
as well as the Lower Colorado River
for-water, declaring water surplus or
Basin." Under title 11 of this Act,
shortage, accounting for all the-
the Secretary is authorized to
water of the Basin, supplying water
prepare an augmentation plan to meet
to Mexico, and preparing and
the water requirements of new
developing augmentation plans to meet
projects, existing projects, current
water requirements.
water allotments, and the 1944 Water
Treaty with Mexico.
Congressional direction to the
Secretary of the Interior on
augmenting water supplies in the
Colorado River Basin is contained in:
-- Colorado River Basin Act of 1968
(Public Law 90-537), which di rects
the Secretary" ... to provide a program
7`
-- Colorado River Basin Salinity
Control Act of 1974 (Public Law
, 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 Colorado River.,