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<br />'. <br /> <br />~:;', <br /> <br />0:> <br />~ " <br />c <br /> <br />~, <br />, . <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />-6- <br /> <br />documentary eyidence and they didn't want to read the document. They <br /> <br />said, II~:ay we put this document by unanimous vote into this record? II <br /> <br />Aspinall spoke up and said, "Is there anything in there that concerns <br /> <br />any of us above Lee's Ferry? If there is, I vote 'no". If not, I'll <br /> <br />vote ';'es I . II But, gentlemen, there is no way on earth that you in <br /> <br />the Upper Basin can divorce yourselves from those bf us in the Lower <br /> <br />Basin, nothwithstanding the fact that the controversy seems to be <br /> <br />between the States of Arizona and California. <br /> <br />Why? Because, under <br /> <br />California's interpretation of withdrawal of water from the river, they <br /> <br />are determined to seek a measuremeht of water at the farm headgates. <br /> <br />Now, keep that in mind. That would be, in this instance, <br /> <br />measured out at Pilot Knob, which is, after the water is ~ of the <br /> <br />Colorado. It means that they take none of the evaporation on the <br /> <br />river, they take none of the evaporation on the reservoirs, they take <br /> <br />none of the evaporation out of Lake Mead, they take it at the farm <br /> <br />headgate. <br /> <br />They measure it to the water, and by reason of being in a <br /> <br />position of a trans-basin diversion, none of the water will ever run <br /> <br />back into the Colorado River. Instead, it is now being shunted into <br />the Salton Sea to the tune of about one million acre-feet of wastage <br /> <br />per year. Now that's the California formula for measuring. Our <br /> <br />formula, and your formula, by reason of the fact that fundamentally <br /> <br />you are not a trans-basin area, except for this Central Project right <br /> <br />here, is depletion of the river at the point of measurement with credit <br /> <br />for the return flow, in the event that there is a return flow, which <br /> <br />gives you a decided advantage in this State, because you have some <br />