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Show Record Whether map, Exhibit 2, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Colorado River basin, was prepared under my direction, I would like to answer yes or no, but I am afraid I can-not. I know something about the various dam sites marked thereon. The coloration of red on the map indicates the level of the water when the reservoir is full, the limit to which the water would be set back by the dam. On the proposed dam site " Glen Canyon", marked on this map, the red extends to very close to the junction of the Green and the Grand. That means that the dam site would eliminate the rapids in Cataract Canyon when the reservoir is full. 3717 The purpose of making the surveys of those dam sites marked in red on the map was essentially for irrigation, with power as an incidental use. There are arrows on the map in red stating " Power". On the map there is a power site marked opposite the mouth of the Fremont River, opposite the junction, at Dewey and one just 3718 beyond Greenriver. They mean that if you put a dam at those points there would be power to utilize. The red daggers marked " Power Site" mean utilization of the resources, of the power in the stream in its 3719 natural condition. You can readily understand that if they stored the floods in the reservoir, and then they pay that back into the stream during the low water flow, that that increases the low water flow. That was the object of the whole study. The proposed dam site at Lees Ferry, called " Glen Canyon Dam Site" was not for the purpose of irrigation in Utah or Arizona at that point. In fact none of those dam sites as shown on this map are for that purpose. My idea was to store the water in the heads of the stream and use it down in the Imperial Valley. The Bluff Dam Site was intended for irrigation but in conjunction with these other reservoir sites. There is no irrigation possible below that Bluff Dam Site. The dam sites were primarily for storage to be used for irrigation in the Imperial Valley. 3721 John F. Richardson testified on re- direct examination as |
