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<br />~ <br /> <br />........ <br />.-- <br /> <br />convinced that we had to sit down and negotiate with Nexico for <br /> <br />~ a physical solution to the problem. <br />CO <br />00 First, the Bureau of Reclamation released excess water to <br />(0 <br />Nexico out of storage, theoretically under the guise of flushing <br /> <br />out a "plug" in the river. This was entirely unsatisfactory to <br /> <br />the Colorado River Basin states, as it meant a use of storage <br /> <br />water not contemplated by the Colorado River Compact. <br /> <br />It was <br /> <br />obvious that the Colorado River Basin states could not sit idly <br /> <br />by and allow storage water to be released in excess of our <br /> <br />annual commitment to Nexico. That water belongs to the states <br /> <br />and not to the Federal Government.. in our opinion, and we quickly <br /> <br />made our objections known to the Bureau of Reclamation officials <br /> <br />and to the State Department. <br /> <br />As a result of negotiations between the united States and <br /> <br />Mexico, in 1965 the two governments consummated a five-year <br /> <br />agreement embodied in Minute 218 of the International Boundary <br /> <br />and Water Commission. <br /> <br />Pursuant to this Minute, the United States engaged in <br /> <br />selective pumping of the water from Well ton-Mohawk drainage <br /> <br />wells to alleviate the salinity at the times most critical to <br /> <br /> <br />Mexico, and constructed a conveyance channel to facilitate the <br /> <br />segregation .and bypassing of the Well ton-!1ohawk Drainage to the <br /> <br />Colorado River below the Mexican diversion facilities at Morelos <br /> <br />Dam. <br /> <br />In order to make up for the drainage water bypassed by the <br /> <br />United States, it was necessary to release up to 50,000 acre- <br /> <br />feet a year from storage, again over the objection of the <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin states. <br />