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I I I I II I I I II I I --I I I I I "I I SUMMARY. CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. SUIIIIII8.I'y Presented herein is a comprehensive report covering in detail the results of engineering studies on methods of s.1J.eviating the salinity problem on the Lover Colorado River. ~- The studies vere conducted entirely vtthin the framework set forth by the Senate and House Appropriations Committees in author- izing funds to initiate these studies. These directives were repeated later in Senate Appropriations Committee Report No. 2178, 87th Congress,2d Session, vhich provided, in part, as follows: "The committee directs that the studies vhich are to be made vtth this money shall not encompass a solution requiring that water delivered to Mexico from the United States bypass the Morelos Dam; require that all water delivered to Mexico from the Colorado River be charged against Mexico' s s.1J.otment, as set forth in Article 10 of the treaty; and that they include possible remedial measures in all irrigated areas from vhich return vater flows into the Colorado River below Hoover DBlII. The committee further directs that in connection vtth studies of proposed construction or operation on an irrigation project, there be close coordination and__~onsultatlon vtth appropriate and responsible officials of such projects . . .. II Tho "ellton-M.obav\\. l=lgll.tlon ana. Drainage District haa proposed that an additional 30,()()()- to 35,OClO-acre cotton allotment be made avail- able to the District. Tbe changed cropping pattern resulting therefrom voul.d resul.t in reduced total. annual irrigation inrlovs to the district of 50,000 to 60,000 acre-feet through the reduction of high vater use crops and double cropping. Total. drainage outflovB could be reduced in a comparable BlIIOunt. The district has advised that if the additional allotment is granted it would be vi 111 "g to i