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<br />I <br /> <br />the river and Mexico to have to pump them back <br />up again for irrigation. Therefore they have <br />agreed that anything delivered in this section <br />of the boundary, although it is not in the <br />limitrophe section, will be credited against the <br />Treaty. <br /> <br />The sum of these minimum flows that the <br />United States could control, in 1956, which \-las <br />an extremely tight year and in which the Lower <br />Basin by their own choice operated the river <br />as tightly as they could because they were run- <br />ning out of head at Hoover Dam and they wanted <br />to maintain the head at Hoover, they cut the <br />releases to a minimum. Even so, the minimum <br />delivered in the limitrophe section in 1956 was <br />over 1300 cubic feet per second; in other words, <br />400 cubic feet per second more during these five <br />months than the Treaty permits the U:1ited states <br />to take credit for. The last year in which it <br />was tight, a part of the year at least, was in <br />1961. In 1961 again the river was being operated <br />as closely as possible in order to maintain head <br />at Hoover, looking forward to the filling of <br />Glen Canyon Reservoir, so that the power poten- <br />tial at Hoover would be affected as little as <br />possible. During the three months in which <br />the extra water, remember in 1961 40,000 acre- <br />feet was authorized by the State Department to <br />help Mexico out, but aside from that 40,000 acre- <br />feet the average return in the three months in <br />which this 40,000 acre-feet was not released was <br />1290 cubic feet per second. Again nearly 400 <br />cubic feet per second more than we could get <br />under the Treaty. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I need to go back into this to set the back- <br />ground for the thing which we wish to propose <br />being set up as a solution. That is, that a <br />bypass channel do be used during the period of <br />time which would be necessary to evacuate these <br />highly saline waters that lie beneath the Wellton- <br />Mohawk Project and that have accumulated some, <br />perhaps, thirty years ago and have laid there <br />ever since. He think there is a parallel here <br />and the other side of the parallel, everybody <br />agrees, would be completely ridiculous. ,'le I ve <br />got up here the Salton Sea which is a real salty <br />