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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~o ~he Upper Basin States against California's proceeding with

nlimited development and assurance that, the Compact would not

e nullified.

t The Boulder Canyon Project Act again invited the Lower Basin

tates to come into agreement on the division of water by the inclu-

jion of a provision authorizing the three Stat~s to enter into an

~greement apportioning the Lower Basin share between them as
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Nevada, 300,000 acre-feet annually;

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Arizona, 2.8 million acre-feet annually plus one-

~ half of any surplus waters unapportioned by the Com-
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~ pact and exclusive beneficial comsumptive use of the
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Gila River and its tributaries~ and
(3) California, 4.4 million acre-feet annually plus
one-half of any surplus water unapportioned by the

Compact.

This tri-State appor~ionment proposal, however, was !never

agreed to by the three States involved.

The Boulder Canyon Project Act, authorizing Hoover Dam and

and canals to convey water to the Imerial and Coachella Valleys
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in california,~declared to be effective on June 25, 1929, by

presi.dent Hoover and construction of Hoover Dam was initiated in
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1930. Notwithstanding Arizona's refusal to approve and ratify

the Colorado River Compact and its unsuccessful legal attempts

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to stop construction of the dam, the dam started to impound water

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in February 1935. The Boulder Canyon Project Act authorized the

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Secretary of the Interior to contract for the delivery of water

for irrigation and domestic uses and prohibited the use of Colorado

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