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<br />Efforts e cut salinityj.
<br />of Colorado River fair~
<br />$450 million p1arr:.;;,
<br />to control problem~
<br />still doesn't work;';<y
<br />says new report. ':":'
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<br />By JOAN LOWY
<br />News Washington Bureau
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<br />WASHINGTON - After 15
<br />years and $450 million, the federal
<br />program to control salinity in the
<br />Colorado River basin still does not
<br />work, according to an 'Interior De-..
<br />partment report released yester;. ", river's natural salinity level by thl\..'.
<br />day. ".; ~.;.,,~,,-... . -.-'-:.,,: _,.~,,'6_~_ .time it reacheS Mexico. .. oj;::'~'lit
<br />. Furthermore: the report by the"'" One part of the program is the"
<br />department's inspector general, construction. of a desalinization~
<br />predicts a substantial escalation in plant near Yuma. The plantorigi-.;.
<br />program costs in coming years and. nally was projected to cost$155.,.
<br />recommends that Congress and the . million but is now expected to cost,:
<br />. Bush administration rethink the $485 million and will not be opera-
<br />program. '.' tional until 1992. Operation costs.;,
<br />The report attributes the pro- once tbe plant. comes on line Bre;~
<br />gram's failures to the, unexpected projected to be as much' as . $25".
<br />costs of a desalting plant in'Yuma, million a year. . "",:11;
<br />Ariz., and a lack of cooperation on. Even then, the plant may not 'be'
<br />the part of upper Colorado River !. able to reduce salinity to the level '
<br />basin states and private canal own-", promised under a U.S.-Mexico\;
<br />ers. .Ie .' .,.,.....:. .,,:' ::.' . agreement unless 29,000 ac~Iee(,,"
<br />'. Colorado.officlals,:bowever", of .water allocated to the lower~;ti
<br />strongly criticized the report, say-::;. 'basin states Is allowed to continue,1J
<br />ingit mlsrepreSents.the:situation::' to flow to Mexico, .the reportlsaid:\:v
<br />in the upper-basinstates';'i>~ ":'~;;":'"The' other part of the . program :
<br />.' "That's a bunch of baloney. Who-"" involves the construction of salinH}
<br />ever is :writing' that-'jltuff is jusV;;~y-control projects. mostly 'in'UJ>"l't
<br />totally inisinforined;~'Said Bill Mc.:\Y per"basin' states,to improve,:tb~lii
<br />Donald,director,of the Colorado"" quality of river water in lower-,t>
<br />Water Conservation Board.:' ';. ,'.: basin states. The river basin ex.',?
<br />:.' <Tbe, Colorado River.: basin '10-" tends 1.400 miles and provides wa-
<br />,eludes seven,states.'Tbe upper-ba- . ter for 18 million people and,J..7= .
<br />sin:states are Colorado, Wyoming; . . million acres of farmland. . "
<br />Utah and New Mexico~ The lower- _' The report contends that upper;',
<br />'basin states 'are' Arizona, Nevada: basin states and private canal.oP-, k '
<br />,and California, Waterfromthe'riv- erators "do not actively support..,
<br />er is allocated among the .states the program because they dO-BOI3;
<br />through the Colorado River Com- , directly benefit from it. . . >'F"""''''
<br />pact. ;'};.;' , : ,',: ;:.;;',t"', . "This lack.of cooperatioJl,;.iliidj';
<br />McDonald said oDiy orie,Salinity~:'~ support by the states andtlii{Piji...
<br />. control project has been completed vale irrigators is the cause ~t,;tli~ . ,
<br />in upper-basin states because "the" (government's). inability to deV'~QIH~
<br />U.S.,Congress hasn't hono!ed.the',;' the,projects .needed ~.conlI'~I.~\;U
<br />. states' request to appropnale the, sourceS. and .the pnmary.' r~~
<br />amount of money It would taketo:, wby ,so little salt reducticin..,p~",i
<br />getthem done." " ,',' . .- '. been accomplished In the Jast,l!i.~
<br />The report's recommendation years," the report said. ,.::. ':; :;;;
<br />tbat salinity-control projects in up- '. The report said Colorado' and:i~
<br />per-basin states' be 'ClIJlceled Is':other upper-basin states baye:,de,.~
<br />"wbollyunacceptable," lIesaid.'" nled the Bureau orReclamiitlo.n~~~"
<br />The, salinity.,control' .program > permits to constructsalinity:CQ'.'-f..'"
<br />was authorized by "Congress in '. trol projects. '. .,;;_.~ >S
<br />. 1914 after strong protests from the , McDonald said Colorado has,ob:"i
<br />government of Mexico that. crops jected to some of the bureau's .prQ'"l;,
<br />in that country were. being dam- posals because. the projects in: '"
<br />aged because U;S. development. volvedevaporating waterrather,:o
<br />along. the river bad doubled the , than desalting it..' , . .;'.. ',i,;),:1
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