WSP06896

• File Number: 8220.200.05.P
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 4/30/1979
• Author: USACOE
• Title: Transcript of the Formal Presentation at the Public Hearings for Re-evaluation of A Flood Control Operation Plan for Hoover Dam
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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wo can to insure capacity tor t100d control, we may hav.

wasted wAt.r which oou1d have been u.ed for irrigation and

municipal water 8upply. And at anywhere trolll ten ($10.00)

dollars to on. hundred ($100.00) dollar. an aore-toot

dopendintjJ on the circWllstance& and the market, that'. a very

reAl eoonomic tactor to be contended with.

On the other band, it we store all the water we can

at every opportunity, flood control .utter. becau.e the

CApacity d.diCAted to that tunction i& taken up with

impound.d water. And flood control i. extremely important,

especially now that the Colorado .y.te. i. praotioally tull.

or, if flood control r.l..... are greater th.n power

planto can use, then hydro-electric eneriY production i.

lost. Of oourse, the importance of ol.an, relatively cheap

oner9Y ne.ds no further comment.

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So with all the Dam'. purpose. conaidered, the Corp.

and the Bureau have developed nine (9) alternative plana tor

flood control operation ot Hoover. Each is deeiqned to

.ither tavor one purpose, flood control, water con.ervation

'" or power production, over the othera or is de.tined t.o

represent A balance amonq the three (3) purpo..a.

Althouqh the plana differ in the purpos.s they favor,

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eaah haa eight (8) element. in common with the others,

First, each alternat.ive requires that a minimum of

1.5 million acre-f.e' of atoraqe in Lake Mead be available