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<br />--02~5;,,3 <br /> <br />Notes <br /> <br />1. Costs are given in current dollars. According to the U.S. Bureau of <br />Reclamation, desalted product water from the Yuma plant will cost $728 per <br />acre-foot (October 1991 dollars); the cost quoted for the blended water is the <br />author's estimate. <br /> <br />2. The negotiations leading to this compromise are summarized in Myron B. <br />Holburt's article, "International Problems of the Colorado River," Natural <br />Resources Journal, 15 (January 1975), pp. 11-13. <br /> <br />-J <br /> <br />3. For a brief, authoritative history of the dispute, see former Ambassador <br />Friedkin's essay, "The International Problem with Mexico over the Salinity <br />of the Lower Colorado River," in Water and the American West: Essays in <br />Honor of Raphael J. Moses, ed. David H. Getches. <br /> <br />4. See Myron B. Holburt, op. dt., pp: 13-14 for a synopsis of the legislative <br />history of treaty ratification. <br /> <br />5. Several former members of the Committee of Fourteen credit Steve <br />Reynolds, New Mexico's long-time representative to the Committee with <br />introducing the concept of equivalent salt balance. But his handwritten note <br />by the paragraph in the draft report on the origin of the concept reads: <br />"Raymond Hill-long before '60!" <br /> <br />6. Steve Reynolds's notes on the draft report indicate that he believed gravity <br />drains rather than pumps should have been installed at Well ton-Mohawk, <br />and that the project would never reach salt balance as long as drainage was <br />pumped. According to Bureau of Reclamation staff, when return flows are <br />reduced to 108,000 AF as called for in the Title I Definite Plan Report, <br />WeIlton-Mohawk will achieve approximate salt balance within four or five <br />I <br />years. <br /> <br />7. Myron B. Holburt, "The Mexican Water Treaty and Its Relationship to <br />Colorado Water Supplies." Paper presented to the California Water <br />Resources Association, Coronado, California, August 11, 1972, p. 7. <br /> <br />8. Ibid., p. 9. <br /> <br />9. Office of the Federal Register, "Visit of President Echeverria of Mexico," <br />Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 8 (June 19, 1972), p. 1058. <br /> <br />10. Steve Reynolds's notes say: "No!" He apparently believed the water <br />substituted for bypassed WeIlton-Mohawk drainage should have been <br />Arizona's responsibility. <br /> <br />brownell,,!,! <br /> <br />13 <br /> <br />September 1991 <br />