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Show 248 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER VIII. Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir, "key" unit of the proposed project, may not hold water or pro- duce power because of physical and geological difficulties which cast doubt on its engineering and financial feasibility. IX. The proposed dams, which are not needed, would cause enormous losses of irreplaceable water through evaporation from the gigantic reservoirs behind them, estimated by the Reclamation Bureau at more than 800,000 acre-feet per annum. X. The true cost of the proposed project is concealed from Congress. The ultimate direct and hidden costs of the project total at least $4 billion. Recla- mation Bureau cost estimates have always been notoriously low, as is revealed by the record. XI. The project's financial scheme is wholly unsound. XII. Central Utah (initial phase), the project's largest irrigation segment, is the most infeasible of all. XIII. The benefit-cost ratio has been distorted contrary to reclamation law in an attempt to justify the pro- ject's unsound economics. XIV. Fifty years of reclamation law, precedent, and ex- perience are jettisoned by the project. XV. The project would forever tie the future of the intermountain West to a horse-and-buggy farm economy and forestall development of its rich in- dustrial potential. XVI. Echo Park Dam is not removed from the project. Supporters of the project have repeatedly stated that the removal of Echo Park would be tanta- mount to "removing the pistons from an engine." XVII. The construction of Glen Canyon Dam will en- danger Rainbow Natural Bridge. XVIII. The bill is wholly incompatible with the recom- mendations of the Presidential Advisory Com- mittee on Water Resources Policy of December 22, 1955. XIX. The project would seriously impair water rights in the lower basin of the Colorado River. XX. This bill would not assist the Navajo Indians. |
