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<br />r- <br />'-0 <br />r-. <br />C'. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />14-1 <br />I <br />how.".r, I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />~ <br />, <br />. <br /> <br />Nature has ~ way of balancing ita acoounts, <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />and as you know 1!>78 was a wet year and the current: year <br /> <br />has thus far produoed rain and anow tar abow nOrl/l&l. In <br /> <br />short, the threatening oonditions that exi.ted prior to <br /> <br />water year 1976 have consequently been r..tored. <br /> <br />The Colorado River .Y8te~ i8 now emerqinq from a <br /> <br />fifteen (15) year long period of below nOrlll&l now. in the <br /> <br />Lower Colorado River artificially induced by the filling of <br /> <br />Lake Powell and below n0l'l':l81 runoff. With system re.enoir. <br /> <br />approaching maximum level., . return to rele..e pattern. <br /> <br />similar to those necessary prior to the clo.ure of Glen <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Canyon Dam and the probability of sustained high rate of <br /> <br />flow are a definite prospect. <br /> <br />-' <br /> <br />PRESIDING OFPICER. A near-full syste. wbioh <br /> <br />may soon be a full system i. not the only changed condition <br />,I <br />we have had to take into acoount durin9 this study. The <br /> <br />character of tho floodplain below Hoover Dam bas changed <br /> <br />I <br />significantly as well. Thanks to . false sen.. of ..ourity i <br /> <br />foatered by the lack of large flood control rale&s.., oouPl~1 <br /> <br />with a qrowinq inter..t in water-based recreation along the I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />River, and finally abetted by a lack of adequate land-u.. <br /> <br />controls, thank. to all thes. thing, urban encroachment ha. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />taken a .tron9 foothold in the floodplain. <br /> <br />The result is that a floodplain below Hoover that <br /> <br />would .afely hand forty thou.an (40,000) <br /> <br />cubic-f..-par-..cond! <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />':....lL_jc., ...il_1, <br />