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Show TABLE 8.-The lower Colorado River Basin's long-run average water supply and the distribution thereof among the States of the basin, according to views expressed by California and Arizona Views of- California Arizona California Arizona There is available for lower basin use from the long-term average flow at Lee Ferry........................................ Which is made up of-- Virgin flow at Lees Ferry............................... Minus the amount allocated to the upper basin............ To this must be added water below Lee Ferry in the amount of.. Which is made up of- Lees Ferry-Hoover Dam water...................... Hoover Dam-Gila River (Imperial Dam) water............ Minus- Natural losses below Hoover Dam, except Gila......... Reservoir losses.................................... Gila River water...................................... Hence there is a total to be distributed among the lower basin States of............................................... Of the "apportioned" waters of the Colorado River system which total................................................... Acre-feet 8, 800, 000 Acre-feet 8,770,000 Acre-feet Acre-feet 16, 300, 000 -7,500, 000 16,270,000 -7,500,000 2,030, 000 1, 450,000 10, 830, 000 7, 500, 000 10,220,000 8,500,000 There is available for use in- Arizona.............................................. California............................................ Nevada.............................................. Utah and New Mexico................................. Plus reservoir losses distributed among the States........... Hence there is a "surplus" of............................... Of this surplus, there is needed to meet the terms of the Mexican Treaty................................................. And the remainder goes to - Arizona.............................................. California............................................ Upper basin.......................................... The "apportioned" and "surplus" waters of the system, then, total: Arizona _............................................. California............................................ Nevada.............................................. Utah and New Mexico................................. There is now being used by Arizona from the Gila River and its tributaries«.............................................. Hence, there Is available for use in Arizona from the Colorado River system, exclusive of the Gila River................... 3, 300, 000 1,720,000 2,670,000 6,030,000 300,000 130,000 2,270,000 400, 000 3,408,000 3,938,000 264,000 130,000 1,135,000 2,273,000 1,100,000 100,000 -600,000 -870, 000 2, 300,000 2, 670,000 4,400,000 300,000 130,000 1,700,000 1,630,000 0 1,060,000 200,000 -1,080,000 1,270,000 3,353,000 3, 883,000 264,000 130,000 870,000 1,500,000 55,000 55,000 110,000 Source: XJ. S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Central Arizona Project and Colorado River Water Rights, Hearings * * * 81st Cong., 1st sess., on S. 75 and S. J. Res. 4, pp. 189-190. water. If Arizona's views are applied to a study of the water supply of the lower basin, California has fully obligated her water by her Self-Limitation Statute. There also are differing opinions as to the use of power from lower basin projects, particularly as to the appropriateness of die use of large blocks for irrigation pumping, rather than having it avail- 392 |