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<br />.jtJ,.jb <br /> <br />we are confronted with the problem of evacu- <br />ating a saline aquifer containing approximately <br />2,700,000 acre-feet of water without disturbing <br />the normal regimen of the river. It must con- <br />stantly be borne in mind that the pumped drainage <br />of the Wellton-Mohawk poses a serious problem - <br />that the initial stage is not normal river opera- I. <br />tion and should not be considered as a normal <br />river operation problem. The discharge of the <br />highly saline waters, from the initial pumping <br />operations above the major Mexican point of <br />diversion creates water of an abnormal quality <br />and it is this water which has caused the N.exi- <br />can complaint. After the highly saline water <br />has been pumped from the aquifer underlying the <br />vlellton-N.ohawk Project and replaced by normal <br />deep percolation, the pumped drainage operation <br />should be considered a normal river operation.' <br /> <br />I might explain the reason for this para- <br />graph in setting out the problem in this way is <br />that .we do not consider this water in this para- <br />graph as a part of the Mexican Treaty obligation. <br />This is a special problem. The Wellton-Hohawk <br />Project needs the aquifer underlying the project <br />area to use as a means of conveying their drain- <br />age waters to the Colorado River and what we are <br />suggesting is that the united states evacuate <br />this area so that the Well ton-Mohawk Project can <br />use this for normal drainage operations and when <br />they have reached normal drainage operation then <br />this water must be accepted by the Republic of <br />Mexico as the normal drainage operation of the <br />Wellton-Mohawk project. tfuat we feel we are <br />doing is avoiding the problem of guaranteeing <br />quality of water in any degree to the Republic <br />of Mexico. Now many people have said we should <br />not ever recognize quality of water. We feel 1 <br />this too. However, the fact that the Congress <br />appropriated $285,000 to study this is certainly <br />recognition that a problem does exist.. <br /> <br />'It is our feeling that the Bureau of Recla- <br />mation report does not solve the problem which <br />is posed, for the reason that the only solution <br />proposed by the Bureau is the changing of the <br />time of delivery of a portion of these highly <br />