WSP06020

• File Number: 8271.300
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - General Information and Publications-Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Author: Sidney McFarland
• Title: Water Quality and the Law of the River
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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11. lower Colorado River Basin development fund is established

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~hich will financially assist the

Central Arizona Pr07~ct and aug-

mentation works which may hereafter be authorized by the Congress.

The revenue sources for this fund, in addition to the Central Arizona

Project are the Hoover and Parker-Davis projects and that part of

the Pacific Northwest-Pacific SOl1thwest power intertie located in

,the States of Arizona and Nevada. l1ith respect to the revenues

iaCCrUing to this fund from the Hoover and Parker-Davis projects,

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,only that part der~ved from the sale of power and energy for use
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lin Arizona will be available for assistance to the Central Arizona
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I The Act also includes provisions for implementing the Colorado

jRiver Compact and the decree of the Supreme Court in Arizona v.
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!california. These provisions establish guidelines for w,\!ter man-

agemcnt throughout the Colorado River Basin and assure equitable
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treatment of all seven States of the Basin now^in the future.

CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT

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Central Arizona project facilities ,authorized ,~.:l._n".,/'!;.,"'~ will

coordinate the use of Colorado River water and the local water re-

sources of the Gila River Basin to provide water for the rapidly

cxpc\l1ding metropolitan areas of Phoenix and 'rucson,for agricultural

areas presently dependent upon severly over-drafted ground water

basins, and for other water-deficient areas of Arizona and western

New Mexico through direct diversion or exchange of water. Additional

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