San Juan-Chama Project: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Water Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ... June 12, 1975 |
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acre-feet of water acre-foot af/yr Albuquerque allocation Arizona authorized Blanco Bureau of Indian Bureau of Reclamation Bypass Div Bypass Canal Chairman Chama coal gasification Colorado River Basin Colorado River Compact Committee Congress consumptive contracts crops depletion Div Bypass Div Diversion Dam downstream Elephant Butte Reservoir estimated fish historical flow Indian Affairs Indian Irrigation Project Indian Reservation Indian tribes Interior Jicarilla Apache Tribe Juan River Basin June Lake land Lee Ferry Little Navajo River livestock Lower Basin Mexico Mexico's legal share Montague municipal and industrial Navajo Indian Irrigation Navajo Nation Navajo Reservoir Navajo River Navajo Tribal Council NIIP numbers operation Paso Natural Gas percent proposed recreation REYNOLDS River Basin Compact San Juan Basin San Juan River San Juan-Chama Diversion San Juan-Chama Project Secretary Senator ABOUREZK shortages streamflow Table tributaries United Upper Basin Upper Colorado River Utah virgin flow Water Resources water rights water supply
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Page 92 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from the waters which are surplus over and above the aggregate of the quantities specified...
Page 151 - The Indians had command of the lands and the waters — command of all their beneficial use, whether kept for hunting, "and grazing roving herds of stock," or turned to agriculture and the arts of civilization. Did they give up all this? Did they reduce the area of their occupation and give up the waters which made it valuable or adequate?
Page 360 - The States of the Upper Division shall not withhold water, and the States of the Lower Division shall not require the delivery of water, which cannot reasonably be applied to domestic and agricultural uses.
Page 71 - domestic use " shall include the use of water for household, stock, municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other like purposes, but shall exclude the generation of electrical power. ARTICLE III. (a) There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado River System in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin respectively the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre-feet of water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist.
Page 150 - From that decree the appellants here appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals without joining therein the other five defendants. The contention is that the Circuit Court of Appeals had no jurisdiction and that this court has none, because the five defaulting defendants had such interest in the case and decree that they should have joined in the appeal, or proceedings should have been taken against them in the nature of summons and severance or its equivalent. The rule which requires the parties to...
Page 71 - The States of the upper division will not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of 10 consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact.
Page 147 - River; thence, due east, to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River; thence down, and following the course of the Mississippi River, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning: provided, the said state shall ratify the boundaries aforesaid.
Page 114 - ... and if such surplus shall prove insufficient for this purpose, then the burden of such deficiency shall be equally borne by the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin, and whenever necessary the States of the Upper Division shall deliver at Lee Ferry water to supply one-half of the deficiency so recognized in addition to that provided in paragraph (d).
Page 321 - The Secretary shall not enter into contracts for a total amount of water beyond that which, in his judgment, in the event of shortage, will result in a reasonable amount being available for the diversion requirements for the Navajo Indian irrigation project and the initial stage of the San Juan-Chama project as specified in sections 2 and 8 of this Act.
Page 147 - ... a point in the middle of the main channel of Milk River opposite the mouth of Peoples Creek; thence up Milk River, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning.