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Show -16- CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1701-J Identification: ............................ Admitted: Aug. 6, 1957 Extract From Bullshead (Davis) Dam Project. Letter From the Acting Secretary of the Interior Transmitting Reclamation Report of the Bulls-head Dam Project on the Colorado River Where That Stream Forms the Boundary Between Arizona and Nevada. House Doc. No. 186, 77th Cong., 1st Sess. House of Representatives (1941). Bullshead (Davis) Dam Project authority The investigations which resulted in this report were made pursuant to section 15 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057), which authorized and directed the Secretary of the Interior to make investigations and reports of the feasibility of projects for irrigation, generation of electric power, and other purposes in the States of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming for the purposes of formulating a comprehensive scheme of control and the improvement and utilization of the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries. This report was prepared in conformity with section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187). DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT The Bullshead Dam project includes Bullshead Dam, Bullshead Reservoir, Bullshead power plant, transmission lines, and incidental and appurtenant works. The dam will be an earth- and rock-fill structure 338 feet high above foundation. The reservoir will have a live storage capacity of 1,600,000 acre-feet of water and will back water up to the tailrace at the Boulder Dam power plant. The power plant will utilize the 140 feet of head available between the tailrace and the Bullshead site and will |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |