BOARD02551

• Board Meeting Date: 8/11/1965
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

""'Z'""'Z'v"""

MR. SPARKS:

GOVERNOR JOHNSON:

MR. SPARKS:

GOVERNOR JOHNSON:

MR. SPARKS:

GOVERNOR JOHNSON:

MR. SPARKS:

GOVERNOR JOHNSON:

MR. SPARKS:

"Yes, sir.1I

"Nr. Sparks, you say that the amount of
water that is available for the upper Basin
is 5.6 million. That is an average amount.
There are some years When it will be much
less than that and some years much more.
Isn't that correct?"

I

"That is exactly right, Governor. That's
an average amount."

"And because it is an average amount, it
requires storage of water. The only way that
that could be handled is through the storage
of water by the upper Basin. Isn't that
true?1l

"That's absolutely correct. There are
times when there would be little or no water
available for the Upper Basin without stor-
age on the river to permit us to make our
deliveries."

"Yes. There are three years when the
virgin flow of the river is just a little
over eight million acre-feet in this present
ten-year period .that we areliying under at
the present time."

"That is correct."

"Just a little over eight. So that
emphasizes and proves and demonstrates the
absolute necessity of having a considerable
surplus of water available in the Upper Basin.
~tr. Hoover, not too many years ago, said
that the Upper Basin would need 20,000,000
acre-feet of storage water in order to take
care of the needs in the Upper Basin. I
think that's a moderate and a conservative
estimate of the amount of water that we
would have to have in storage if we are
going to compensate for these dry years."

I

"All these studies, the Tipton studies,
were based upon storage in the Upper and