The Lower Colorado River Basin Project Senate Report

Document: 88th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Calendar No. 1267, The Lower Colorado River Basin Project, Report No. 1330, Agust 6, 1964, page 3030 THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT subsection (a) and, within five years from the effective date of this Act, the Secretary shall recommend to the President and the Congress projects and programs for authorization pursuant to paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (a) and shall submit feasibility reports on such projects and programs. Said recommendation and feasibility reports shall include projects designed to provide water of an adequate quality for the Lower Colorado River Basin to assist in meeting that basin's long-range needs and, in any event, sufficient to meet deficiencies between the quantities required to supply water for the annual consumptive use of two million eight hundred thousand acre-feet in Arizona, four million four hundred thousand acre-feet in California, and three hundred thousand acre-feet in Nevada and the quantities available in the main stream of the Colorado River for such uses as determined by the Secretary. SEC. 104. In order to initiate the Lower Colorado River Basin project, herein referred to as the "project", and to further the comprehensive development of the water resources of the Lower Colorado River Basin the Secretary shall- (a) construct, operate, and maintain the main stream reservoir unit consisting of the Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon projects, including dams, reservoirs, powerplants, transmission facilites, and appurtenant works, and the Coconino and Paria River silt-detention reservoirs: Provided, That Bridge Canyon Dam shall be constructed so as to impound water at a normal surface elevation of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six feet above mean sea level and that marble Canyon Dam shall be constructed so as to impound water at a normal surface elevation of three thousand one hundred and forty feet above mean sea level. The Congress hereby declares that the construction of the Bridge Canyon Dam herein authorized is consistent with the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1175); (b) construct, operate, and maintain the central Arizona unit consisting of the following principal works: (1) a system of main conduits and canals, including a main canal and pumping plants (Granite Reef aqueduct and pumping plants) for diverting and carrying Colorado River water from Lake Havasu to Orme Dam (McDowell Dam) on the Salt River above Granite Reef diversion dam; (2) Orme Dam (McDowell Dam) Reservoir, and power pumping plant; (3) Buttes Dam and Reservoir; (4) Hooker Dam and Reservoir; (5) Charleston Dam and Reservoir; (6) Tucson aqueducts and pumping plants; (7) Salt-Gila aqueduct; (8) canals, powerplants, and electrical transmission facilities; (9) related water distribution and drainage works; and (10) appurtenant works: Provided, That for a period of twenty-five years from the effective date of this Act, or until such time as there shall have been constructed such project or projects for supplying water in quantities at least sufficient to avoid the deficiencies of main stream Colorado River water hereafter described, whichever first occurs, in any year in which, as determined by the Secretary, there will be insufficient main stream Colorado River water to satisfy the consumptive uses of two million eight hundred thousand, four million four hundred thousand, and three hundred thousand acre-feet in Arizona, California, and Nevada,Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,763,637 byte