Comments Following Review of Report on the Pacific Southwest Water Plan

Document: Draft No. 5, Nov 14, 1963 (carbon copy), page 5"The appraisal report of January 1962 clearly brought home to State and Federal officials the fact that the need for water in central Arizona was far greater today than in 1947, when the original report was issued, and that, if additiinal water were not made available to reduce the rate of depletion of the groundwater resources, economic retrenchment of the area would be inevitable. The appraisal report also showed that, although the costs of the central Arizona project had risen in accordance with the trend of the times, the benefits accruing to the project and the capacity for repayment of costs by the potential water users had risen at a far greater rate due to the growth and development that had occurred in the area." (Printed Hearings on S. 1658, page 40.) "The central Arizona project is, today, the same project that was outlined in detail in the Bureau of Reclamation's report of December 1947. Changes have been made in the project plan only as were necessary to take advantage of development during the last decade, and to modify the location and design of project features as required to meet present conditions." (Printed Hearings on S. 1658, page 34.) "I am in my statement making clear that the central Arizona project embraced by Senate 1658, except for Marble Canyon, Bridge Canyon joint financial structure, is identical with what is proposed in the larger proposal, as one stage of the Southwest water plan. The central Arizona Project is one of the strong motivations behind any Southwest water plan. It is a basic ingredient of that plan and ought to go forward at the earliest practicable moment. 5Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 3,559,073 byte