Summary Report - Central Arizona Project with Federal Prepayment Power Arrangements

Report: "Summary Report Central Arizona Project With Federal Prepayments Power Arrangement", February 1967, page 22channel improvement, river regulation, and watershed soil and moisture programs. For maximum project benefit, direct use of the imported Colorado River water as a base supply would be necessary, requiring seasonal variation in ground-water pumping and storage reservoir draft. Proposed legislation introduced in the 89th and 90th Congresses has included provisions for exchanges between New Mexico users on the upper Gila River System and users in Arizona who can be physically supplied with Colorado River water from the Central Arizona Project aqueduct system. These provisions would have the effect of transferring to New Mexico a protion of Arizona's entitlement of Colorado River water based upon agreement between the States. The exchange would be accommodated by operation of Hooker Reservoir. The Secretary could require users of Central Arizona Project water in Arizona to agree to additional exchanges to provide water supplies to other areas in the State of Arizona. These possibilities are under study. Their accomplishment would require authorization of additional facilities. 22Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 676,467 byte