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<br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />,. .. <br /> <br />You can't escape that_ no matter how you put <br />the record together. <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />~e report was made to determine by the <br />studi~s-of.streamflow-records the water avail- <br />able in the Colorado River to satisfy Lower <br />--Basin uses up t6 7~'IDillion acre-feet from I <br />.the~maih'~tem and the 7~ million acre-feet <br />~allocated to -the upper, Basin - the four <br />'states of the upper Division - by the Colo- <br />rado River Compact. ~at's 7,500,000 acre- <br />.feet minus, 50~000_to ~izona which the Upper <br />Colorado River B~sin Compact allocated to <br />Arizona..' 'l'hat .was the _ purpose of the studies. <br /> <br />_ . ~e~e'studies 'show, as Mr. Sparks has <br />indicated, 'that natuie has decreed that there <br />-is not:suff~c~ent-water in the river to en- <br />-'able the states of. the upper Division of the <br />colora40 River Basin .to beneficially utilize <br />7!{ million: acre-feet _ - As he indicated, the <br />studies shOw _'6.3 mii-lion acre-feet including <br />reservoir evaporations. ~at reservoir evape- <br />ration is a rath~r substantial amount. ~at <br />is' from the ~r_eserVoirEl - which are being con- <br />~tructed and have been constructed to enable <br />':the UPPer Bas}-n to _make its compact obliga- <br />tion,-. the. delivery of 75,000,000 acre-feet <br />at Lee FerrY_ .in ~successive ten-year periods. <br />'So that which remains available for use, at <br />the points :of -use., is- only about 5.6 million <br />acre-feet. ~at~s assuming at all times that <br />~~ deiivery6f.water at Lee Ferry is limited <br />to the 75,.000; 0"00 acre-feet in successive <br />ten--year . per~od's. Should it be greater for <br />the generation of power to aid in the financing <br />of proj~bts in the'upper Basin, the limitation <br />on use ~n ~e Upper Basin would be greater. <br /> <br />NOW going to the Lower Basin, that which <br />'happens in the-upper Basin is not of too much <br />interest-to the.Lo~r Basin. What is of in- <br />. '. <br />terest to the Lower--Basin is the water <br />delivered.at Lee Ferry~ ~e upper Basin is <br />obligated--to deliver what amoun.ts to 7~ <br />mil~io? acre-feet ~very year, after we drop <br /> <br />.- <br /> <br />I <br />