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Ul?on taking over the operation and maintenance 01' the project, the Board hired a Pro.lect Manager. He set up an organization built around 5 depart- ments : Operations ; Hyrography; Maintenapce, Drainage and Construction; Engineering; Administl'ation. The Operation Department has the' most impol'tant function in the organization since it gets water to the farmer when and in the amount he wants. It is headed by the Waterroaatel', who has 11 di tchl'iders to control the delivel'ies. We have put each ditchrfder on 24 hours, 7 days a week and employed his wife to answer the telephone' when he is absent. No system of deliveries can be successful unless all ~sers of water coopel'ate. With this in mind, we have placed in the hands of the farmel's some of the work in turning water to each other, with the ditchrider controlling and measuring the amount of each delivery. So far, th~s has been successful, with a minimUl!l of ditch bl'eaks. . Since we have to deliver water all year, we have a serious problem in weed and moss control. We placed this duty on the Waterroaster because he can coordinate the elll1ltying of canals with the spraying and burning of canal banks. We cut the water out of our syst$m 3 days a month to help :l.n control of moss. The Maintenance, Drainage and Cbnstruction Depal'tment, is rehabili~ tating the distribution system and drain~ge system. The program on the distribution system is about complete, but the drainage system is a headac1ie. We have a problem which probably no other project in Arizona has now and that is too IllUch undel'ground water. We are l'ebuilding our Boundary PUlllping Plant to incl'ease the capacity to 300 c1's., lower the elevation of watel' in our drains and to get credit fol' delivery of: the water to MexiCO undel' the Mexican Treaty. This water has to be put back ihto the river before it crosses the Boundary to be credited as Mexican Treaty Water. We have also started a. program of cleaning our drains every otb;er year. * * * * * * ** * * * EX!IMPlE OF CONFLICT :BETWEl!lN LOCAL AND FEDERAL PROJECT POWER DEVELOPMENT Fisher Harl'is, General Counsel, Provo RtVer Water Users Association, Utah A conflict has al'isen as to wh~ther the Provo Rivel' Water Users Association or the United States shall develop the power possibilities of the Deer Creek Division 01' the ProvO River Pl'oject of the Bureau of Reclama- tion, in Utah. On June 27, 1936 the Asaociatipn entered into a contract with the United States for construction 01' the Deer Creek Division. Article 38 of the contract reads in pal't as follows: -204