WSP03469

• File Number: 8220.200.05.P
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 5/10/1979
• Author: USACOE
• Title: Transcript of a Public Hearing for Re-evaluation of A Flood Control Operation Plan for Hoover Dam: Los Angeles CA
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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TESTIMONY OF LEWIS R. MAY

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2 MR. MAY: My name is Lewis R. May, and I have about

3 a couple of questions this evening. I live at 5767 Wilshire

4 Boulevard, Los Angeles, California,

5 Do you have an estimate of the annual frequency of

6 the 35-40 at 73,000 cubic feet per second runoff?

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MR. EVELYN: Okay, we do have those. I want to see
what I happen to bring with me here tonight.

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(Whereupon, a short pause while Mr. Evelyn searched

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MR. EVELYN: Okay, with respect to releases made at

13 Hoover, a release of about 40,000, I think we're talking about

14 approximately 150 year event.

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The 35,000 cubic feet per second release, would be

16 as frequent C5 approximately about a thirty year event. And th

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MR. MAY: The 73,OOO?

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MR. EVELYN: 73,000, okay, I don't hav~ my figures

20 available with me. That would be probably something in excess

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of a 500 hundred year event,

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MR. MAY: I see. Thank you. -- What do you conside

23 the minimum elevation to the -- out to the flood plain?

24 What elevation is considered a safe current struct-

25 ure?

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