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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 3rd Section East Low Canal and Weber Wasteway Turnout Structure, Specifications No. 2879. Gate support showing rock pocket and exposed reinforcing steel prior to chipping. Inadequate vibration has...
1950-09-22
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Pasco Settlers. Ken Marvin, Unit 47, plows under a field of rye for green manure. The rye was planted last fall as a nurse crop only, and surprised him by growing beyond all expectations
1950-04-28
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Problem or Area of Concern
5. Study pumped-storage as a means to cool water from nuclear powerplants.
COMMENT: The suggested study is concerned with multiple purpose nuclear plant siting investigations and would require cooperative planning of...
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THE CONTRIBUTION OF IRRIGATION AND THE CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT TO THE ECONOMY OF THE AREA AND NATION
INTRODUCTION
Over half a century ago, the Congress, in passing the Reclamation Act, launched the Federal Government in the development of the water...
2009-04-01
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true facts about economic feasibility
In support of the Colorado River Storage Project. I can point with pride to the record of the Bureau of Reclamation, a going concern for over half a century, and assure you that every dollar spent for the...
2009-05-01
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Document: "The Elements of the Administration Plan," 1-28-67
1967-01-28
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As in other subdivisions, persons engaged in retail trade (13,392) outnumber those of any other group. Construction in progress at Grand Coulee Dam in 1940 helped account for an unusually large proportion of workers in that group. The percentages...
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I now quote from a speech made by Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, in support of the 1902 legislation: The fact is that carrying out of this new national policy for transforming our own arid region into a fertile and populous part ©f our...
2008-12-01
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Document: "The Elements of the Administration Plan, January 1967 (carbon copy)
1967-01-01
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Problem or Area of Concern
3.(Cont) or gas. However, as these fuels become scarce the effect would be reduced. Inverted rates for commercial industrial power sales would be almost impossible to achieve due to the wide disparity in amounts and...
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Document: "The Elements of the Administration Plan, 1-28-67(carbon copy), page 1
1967-01-28
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WEALTH BASED ON IRRIGATED LAND
TWIN FALLS-MINIDOKA-GOODING AREA -1940
ANNUAL DOLLAR VOLUME CAPITAL INVESTMENT
NEW WEALTH
TURNOVER
RURAL -
IRRIGATED LAND 675,000 ACRES
- FARM BUSINESS EXPENSE - 6.7
FARM PRIVATE PROPERTY-63.9...
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Plans,
Costs, and
Benefits
"Direct and indirect benefits of the undertakings would be large and far reaching. The lands developed by irrigation, drainage, and flood control works would support a farm population of approximately 300,000....
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Problem or Area of Concern
Source
Tentative Disposition
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SI-75 PI-102
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6.(Cont) COMMENT: to make some adjustments of thermal plant output. As the number of thermal plants increase the load fluctuation which will be imposed on...
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Document: "Secretary Udall Moves," America, Febuary 13, 1965, page 3
1965-02-13
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Document: Bridge and Marble Canyon Dams, Anthony Wayne Smith, August 30, 1965 (mimograph), page 1
1965-08-30
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tional and regional economy, they will best serve those interests if made for purposes of enduring and continuing use. A public works program for the construction of permanent installations beneficial to the national economy is to be preferred...
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project. Such will be the case with the Columbia Basin project. Why then be timid
about subsidization?
The Central Arizona Project has been vilified and misrepresented.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended to achieve the wide...
2009-03-01
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at all, that it is not self-liquidating, that it would involve an excessive, not to say an incredible cost per acre benefited, that the power aspects are with the possible exception of the Glen Canyon dm financially infeasible, that in order to...
2008-11-01
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Document: Report to Utah from U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss, "Water for Utah and the West - Where Will We Get It?", May, 1964, page 2
1964-05-01
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KEY MAP
IRRIGATED AREAS NON-IRRIGATED AREAS
ADAPTED FROM MAPS BY BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
CENTRAL SNAKE
CROP LAND
The differing physical conditions of the three principal parts of the basin have...
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tolerated. There remains, however, an urgent need for further research to determine methods of forest and range land-use practices which will permit the maximum economic use of the land resources without adversely affecting the usefulness of...
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