WSP06679

• File Number: 8210.310
• Description: Colorado River Basin Organizations and Entities - Colorado River Water Conservation District
• State: CO
• Basin: Western Slope
• Date: 1/20/1965
• Author: various
• Title: Various News Articles and Press Releases related to the Colorado River Association
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

COLORADO RIVER ASSOCIATION
417 So. Hill Street. Room 929
Los Angeles. Callfornia 90013
Phone: [phone]

February 19. 1965

~D:ATE RELEASE

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Praise for both California Senators. and for the 33 Cal~fornla

Congressmen participating in the compromlse of the dlspute between

California and Arizona over water of the Colorado River, 1S contaIned.'

in resolutions p~9sed unanimously.by the Colorado RIver Board of

California and mailed today.

Endorsement of principles of Senate Blll 1019, introduce.d by.'
Sen. Thomas Kuohel jointly with Sen. George Murphy, was made.
The resolutions .emphasized Board support of a regIonal Westwid~'
Water Inventory to find the best way to transfer water which is

.u.rplu.a el_wbere d.nt.o otM.b8.i.ft of the OYercommitt:ed Colorado 'Rive.t":.':

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Protection of existing projects in the Lower Basin, limlted .for.

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California to 4.4 million acre feet of the 5.1 now needed and taken. .-;. .."

yearly, is proviOed by Senate Bill 1019 until the President proclaims

that works are in opexation w~ich are capable of delivering annually
not les8 than 2.5 million Bc.re-feet of water into the rna~nBtream of

the Colorado River from source. outside its natural dralnage area.

The key words are "not less than", rather than 2.5 million

8cre-feet. Importation of surplus water in much greater quantity

than 2.5 million acre-feet yearly is recognized as needed to sustaln

the future well-being of all ~ states in the Colorado River Basin.
Benefits to ere.. from which such surplus water may be moved

are contemplated, under recommen~ation by the Secretary of the
Interiox, as vell ~8 provision. to protect the future needs of

those areas.

support of the propose~ legillation depends upon the provislon

to build works to actually deliver into the Colorado River mainstream

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