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<br /> <br />Yilt NORVlEL: Have you computations of that loss? <br /> <br />MR. A. P. DAVIS: I estimate a loss between Boulder Canyon <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />and Yuma at about a million acre feet per annum. That is based <br /> <br />upon'measurements made at Topock and Yuma, at intervals for <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />a period of years" which are very erratic, _ and a few measure_ <br /> <br />~ents above. Under normal conditions ,Then there is no particu- <br /> <br />lar storm condition, there is a decided loss between Topock and <br /> <br />Yuma and the measurements of the river at that time gives us <br /> <br />the best information He helVe as to Hhat that loss is. Of <br /> <br />course, that is a net 10SB at the particular time, and by <br /> <br />taking these dry times, He get at the loss, Hhich is a variable <br /> <br />amount. I have roughly eBtimated that the losses between Lee's <br /> <br />Ferry and Yuma are somewhat larger; but not much larger than <br /> <br />the inflow. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />,MR. NORVIEL: Do you mean to say the losses are larger <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />than the inflow so that the inflow bet,roen Lee's Ferry and <br /> <br />the Yuma dam, do not compensate for the losses? <br /> <br />~iR. A. P. DAVIS: On the average, I think that is true. <br /> <br />That includes the inundation of between t,ro and three hundred <br /> <br />thousand acres of land, But the area of bottom land that over- <br /> <br />floHs outsj.de the river bed is some,lhere in the neighborhood <br /> <br />of 200,000 ~cres, more or less. It couldn't be ve~ accurately <br /> <br />determined as the river va,ies all the time and it can I t be <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />m$asuredevery month, And I have here also for the information <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />of the Commission an ,estimate I asked for to check my own ideas, <br /> <br />12th - S.F, <br />15 <br /> <br />85 <br />