BOARD02551

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

agree with the facts in respect to the amount
of water that is being produced and consumed
in the Lower Basin from tributary flows which,
under the theory of Colorado and the Upper
Basin, could be used in an accounting proce-
dure to make up the million acre-feet of I
III (b) water and in the amount of water that
is going to Mexico there is some surplus left
over. I a',jree that there should be an
accounting which factually shows this over
a period of years.

As I said, I don't know whether I want
this for the record or not."

NR. SPARl<S:

.. This is e:cactly our idea. l'1e won't
worry about the accounting in the Lower Basin
as long as our obligation is limited to 7~
million annually. They can do what they
please about their accounting because then
we are delivering the 75,000,000 or the 7~
each year. Ne could care less then about
their accounting. l'1e wanted to avoid a com-
plex accounting procedure through the method
that we are proposing by amendment to this
legislation. As far as I personally am con-
cerned, I see no departure from that position.

The third item is the operation of the
Upper Basin reservoirs. This is something
that Governor Johnson has spoken about quite
eloquently in the past year or two. Ne have
been at the mercy of Hoover Darn powerplants
ever since Glen Canyon came on the river.
Funds from the Upper Basin project have been,
in our opinion, illegally diverted to payoff
power contractors at Hoover Darn. The filling
of Glen Canyon was deliberately slowed down
in order to maintain a rated power head at
Hoover Dam. He don't care how the people in
the Lower Basin use their water, so long as
they don't take ours to maintain power pro-
duction. And this is exactly the circumstance
that has occurred in the past two years. Not
only have we had to pay to use our own water,
but our own water has been withheld from us.
The water that ,.,e have used is over and above

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