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Show 5712 3719 162 stream by virtue of increase of the low water flow of this storage reservoir. You can readily understand that, If they stored the floods in it, and then they may that back into the stream during the low water flow, that that increases the low water flow. And that was the object of the whole study; that is, we had this flow of water, and we wanted to eliminate the run- off. And the question was how we would use it, and the question was, would welet that go to waste, or go down to the Imperial Valley, or whether we would store it; and we decided gation. Q Well, just take as an example this Glen dam site. What portion of the country was to be irrigable from that? A Well, possibly, Your honor, the lower Colorado River, the Imperial Valley. Q No; the Glen dam site, away up here ( indicating on map), by Lees Ferry; what portion of the surrounding country was to be irrigable? A None irrigable at that point. This water was to be used at the lower end of the river, in California and in the Republic of Mexico. Q Then the proposed dam site at Lees Ferry, called |
