Secretary Udall Announces Study for Regional Solution of Water and Power Problems of Pacific Southwest

Document: United States Department of the Interior news release, "Secretary Udall Announces Study for Regional Solution of Water and Power Problems of Pacific Southwest," January 22, 1963, page 3"The study must recognize the increasing high value of hydroelectric power for peaking and, therefore, the importance of power plants on the Colorado River," he said. "Power revenues from the Hoover Dam plant, the powerplants at Parker and Davis dams, and from the additional powerplants to be built on the Colorado River at Marble Canyon, Bridge Canyon--and wherever else such plants on the Colorado may prove feasible--including those powerplants in combination with saline water plants--should be utilized in repaying the costs of the basin-wide water development." "The problems of the Lower Colorado, which we have studied and are continuing to study, have reached a highly critical stage and now can be solved only through a new brand of thinking," Secretary Udall said. "No one person, no one entity, no one dam or development pattern in any one State can erase those problems. Only regional action--coordinated at every level--will suffice." xxx P.N. 21777-63 3Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,600,056 byte