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| Title | War for the Colorado River Volume II; Above Lee's Ferry |
| Creator | Terrell, John Upton |
| Subject | Water rights; Water resources development; Water resources development -- Law and legislation; Rivers |
| OCR Text | Two volumes describing the California-Arizona controversy over the Colorado River. Part One - Hungry Horse Prediction; Part Two - January on Capitol Hill; Part Three - The Ides of March; Part Four - A Stacked Committee; Part Five - Hi Ho, Aqualantes; Part Six - Bananas on Pike's Peak; Part Seven - Dollars into Dust |
| Publisher | The Arthur H. Clark Company |
| Date | 1966 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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| Language | eng |
| Relation | Western Waters Digitial Library |
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| Holding Institution | J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Source Physical Dimensions | Book 2 v. maps. 24 cm. |
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| Call Number | LC: KF5590.C6 |
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| Setname | wwdl_books |
| ID | 1130135 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t6h83 |
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| Title | page 011 |
| OCR Text | HUNGRY HORSE PREDICTION 11 ficial consumptive use." The words were important, for at the time the Upper Basin Compact was being negoti- ated there were two conflicting theories for the measure- ment of Colorado River water which was beneficially used and consumed. Arizona contended that it should be charged only to the extent it depleted the "virgin flow" of a stream. To Arizona the term "virgin flow" meant the amount of water a stream carried before any of it was used by man. How it was to be accurately shown what the precise virgin flow of a river was before the first man came to its banks and took a drink was never made clear. Arizona had invented its theory to secure an ad- vantage in using the waters of the Gila River. The Gila flowed across Arizona and emptied into the Colorado near the Mexican border, too far down the main river to be used by any other state. It was at the confluence that Arizona wanted its use of the Gila's water measured. The State argued that it should be charged for no more than the Gila had emptied into the Colo- rado under "virgin flow" conditions, or in a state of nature, and it estimated that amount to be about one million acre-feet. But Arizona was taking more than two million acre-feet out of the Gila as it moved across the state, and very little, if any, Gila water ever reached the Colorado. California took the position that inas- much as Arizona took more than two million acre-feet a year from the Gila that much should be charged against Arizona's share of the waters apportioned to the Lower Basin.3 California based its theory for measuring beneficial consumptive use on a "diversions-less-returns" formula.4 |
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| Source | Original Book: War for the Colorado River, Vol. 1 |
| Setname | wwdl_books |
| ID | 1129823 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t6h83/1129823 |