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<br />OOliGl <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~O!3 AngclcB Wimes r <br /> <br />Thursday, April 28, 1933 <br /> <br />'l\1I 7dJl Anr' <br />V'i"C:lllLc.:r <br /> <br />, '.' I <br />1Po)jmcdlerl <br />I <br /> <br />A OPlr""U1P";" <br />n~_.J..i.1~ "':'"'~ <br /> <br />Beli1lefflts ~f Sill!1rphnses <br /> <br />Colorado Rirer Runoff Presenls Officials With <br />n Pleasant Dilemma; Cosl Saring5 Called Li!;ely <br /> <br />By ROBERT A. JONES: Tlr;us s/'al/ Writt"T <br /> <br />Por the lhird time in fjve years, OJ <br />vIrtual flood of ;,.Her is pouring <br />down the Colorado Rn"N this <br />spring, fed by some of the h(";!vle:H <br />winter snowfaUs 0:1 recore At Hoo. <br />ver Dam, the outJ!'t for L.:zke :-'Icad, <br />the Spillways are :lJnnin,;; on Over_ <br />lIme, and so much Water IS flowing <br />through the TJ\'cr's lower reaches <br />that no Ont-nei:her California, <br />AriZona. llor any other S13lC-can <br />USe Ilal!. <br /> <br />This COrnucop:a of Water IS un. <br />usual in a normally thIrsty South. <br />West; in most y('ar.s \'lrtuJlly eVery <br />drop of .....ater IS sucked out of lhe <br />Colorado before it empties Jnto <br />MeXICO'S Gulf of Callfornia. But the <br />repe;:lted Surplu.:ies 10 recent )'ears <br />have me.1nt that millions of Clcre. <br />feel of Water have glided unw::ed to <br />the sea as wa,er age-ncll"S through_ <br />OUt S:!"Jthcrn Cahfoimj n.lv(' e.'\:_ <br />hausted theIr ~torazcsp:.iCC <br /> <br />Compl~.'{ Trade <br /> <br />These e-"cr.",s flows, .11"ng w,th <br />the prospects of even more It! fUlure <br />years, arc now 1t'.:!dJng lhc water <br />agenc:es IOta a ma:or rea;,pr::llsal of <br />the way C::.llform<l m::.kes use of lIS <br />rights to Walcr from the Colorado. <br />Al the ~lcl:opohtan Water Dis- <br />trict, for example, OHlclaL;: now art' <br />orgamzlng a complex traile v,ltn a <br />dcsert f.lTm d;slncl lh,:H Would <br />enable them 10 take ::lr;d .slore :m <br />amOunt of Water f'qi..l31 to two. thirds <br />of what the ~,! WD normally Pumps <br />fronlhc nvcr J:1<l)"e.:lr. <br />ThiS \\':llcr, In (crcct, would be <br />"banked" in an u~derground b.)sln <br />within lh!' f,ur:1 dl~trlC~ against <br />future drot.:.;h, years when neHntr <br />the CoJora,jo nor the Sl..:.lte WOller <br />Prolc-ct-Ih~ t.~~o pntl(':NI $Qurces <br /> <br />of Water fOr Southern C-Uiforma_ <br />could dc-liver sufj'uent supplieS-. <br />"\Ve are workltlg lIke !'I1ad to he in <br />a poSitlOn to gel a ch..I/lk of ilny <br />fUlure surpluses," s.ud Dave Ken, <br />r:ed)', a$sist.1nl general man.:lger Of! <br />the ~1\VI). ..\.....hcll Ihe (drous-ht) <br />crunch come's, Il could make all Ihe <br />dIfference to have thal water 1tI <br />O:;lOra,l:e." I <br />The PH'St'l1CC or repeated SUr- <br />plus~s IS only one: of scv....,..1 devel_ <br /> <br />