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<br />~ <br /> <br />O 0 ') ~I J"" <br />1...1... .' <br />First, as ~~e President <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />suggested, letYs go to the Continental Divide and take <br /> <br />a look dOlffistream. We find that the Snake and its tributaries are already pretty <br /> <br />well developed and the uses fairly well integrated, even though the projects were <br /> <br /> <br />authorized alld developed separately over a considerable number of years, There is <br /> <br /> <br />Jackson Lake for storage at the highe~t possibj.e elevation in the shadow of the <br /> <br />Tetons. Thel'9 is l.mder construction a short distance dO\lllstream PaliSaGes Dam, <br /> <br />almost on the Idaho-,Wyoming border, Belew that is Americall Falls Dam and reservoire <br /> <br />There are also numerous other smalle. dams and reser~irs, some pri.vately con- <br /> <br />structed and others built by Government ent~.ties in the upstream Snake River basin, <br /> <br />Downstream~ of cot~rse, on one of the SnakeYs principal tributaries. the Boise <br /> <br />River, you have Arrowr"ock and Aneerson Ranch Dlllnsj Lucky Peak is under C'onstruction,. <br /> <br />There are l1everaJ. other facilities with !,hich you are all fsmUiar in the Basin of <br /> <br />the Lower Snake, includi~g those on ~le Owyhee and Vale pro~e~r.so <br /> <br />But on the Snake River itself below the Milner De.m, t.'lere has been but little <br /> <br />diversion and irrigation use of its waters and there is a bountiful and moat <br /> <br />dependable supply in this st1:'etch d the river,) <br /> <br />These storage dams and .eser,oirs are all operated in fairly good coordination <br /> <br />r.o realize maximum be.1ef~ts from the tetal operation., Only EJ ~e.. weeks agoJ they <br /> <br />helped re~~ce the crest of ~lat could have bee~ allother major flood. At the seme <br /> <br />time, the we.ter thay held back insures gr-een fields up and down the valleys of the <br /> <br />Snake and i ts kibut,!\.~~_es I'egardlesa of "hat the weat.herman !'lay have in store for <br /> <br />us duril\g the rest of the s=ar-. The best ki:ld of nood control is that in which <br /> <br />the water is turneu to a useful pu;'pose. The watetT u"ers on the Boistl project haVe <br /> <br />before them an agreeThent betHee!). t'le lkreau of Reolamittion and Army Corps of Engi- <br /> <br />neers which "Iill fu:.thar intAgm';',e this ope."ation.o <br /> <br />~, <br />