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Show -17- CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1701-J Identification: ............................ Admitted: Aug. 6, 1957 have an initial capacity of 180,000 kilowatts with the installation of four 45,000-kilowatt generators and an ultimate capacity of 225,000 kilowatts. The transmission lines, of 161,000-volt capacity, will connect with the Parker Dam plant and extend to market areas. Power from the Bullshead plant, augmented by power from the Parker plant, will serve commercial load centers at Phoenix, Tucson, and Yuma, Ariz., in the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California, and it will serve the Gila project near Yuma. WATER SUPPLY The Bullshead Dam project will utilize the stream flow of the lower Colorado River after it has been regulated by and released from Lake Mead, the reservoir created by Boulder Dam. There are no tributaries entering the river between Boulder and Bullshead Dams. Lake Mead has a capacity of 32,359,274 acre-feet of water. It controls almost completely the main stream. Releases from Lake Mead are governed by the requirements of irrigation and domestic water users downstream, the requirements of flood control, and those of power generation. They are made in accordance with the Colorado River compact referred to in section 13 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act. The compact provides for the distribution of the waters of the Colorado River between the upper and lower basins of the river. |
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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. |