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<br /> <br />created a credit through excess flow, which it is within the <br /> <br />power of the southern states to have stored they should have <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />some credit i~ the famine years as against that deposit establi- <br /> <br />shed in the 101{er basin. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MR, NORVIEL: That is provided for in that average period. <br /> <br />HR. HOOVER I \ihat we are trying to get aHay from is the <br /> <br />abstract question of a famine. We are talking about minimum <br /> <br />annual flow nOH, - that is whether because you have no provisions <br /> <br />for holding it, your idea of a minimtUll annual flow will be <br /> <br />rightfully tempered by the water they may have sent during <br /> <br />some previous period to the lower basin in excess of the ten <br /> <br />year average. <br /> <br />MR. NORVIEL: Yes, that should be taken into consid- <br /> <br />eration, but tLere is this contingency in the avo rage of ten <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />years,-the cycle of dry years may not be limited to three but <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />may extend over a longer period than that and unless we have a <br /> <br />constant supply of some lmter our necessities may deplete the <br /> <br />supply to such an extent as would be disastrous. <br /> <br />MR. CJ\LDvJELL: Mr. Chairman, it seems to me now, - I may <br /> <br />not be thinJ,ing clearly,- but it seems to me that reserve stor- <br /> <br />age created Hill take the place of dependence of average floll. <br /> <br />It will meet the requirements better than by calculation of <br /> <br />average flol1. Cut that out altogethor and say that there is <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />enough water in the river. We will hold back 0. certain amount of <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />it, and in the ovent that it is hold back in reserve you are <br /> <br />entitled to six million acre-feet of it anyway, We don't need <br /> <br />to talk about average floH as far as I am concerned. I am 1<111- <br />14th-S.F. <br />41 <br /> <br />187 <br /> <br />~- <br />