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What's This About Flooding Out the Grand Canyon?

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Title What's This About Flooding Out the Grand Canyon?
Description Document: Congressional Record, "What's This About Flooding Out the Grand Canyon," Morris K. Udall, September 15, 1965, page 3 3 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD would make it possible to bring into the river as much as 10 to 15 million acre-feet of water annually-100 times the loss from evaporation. Seepage is a recognized fact, too, and critics have made an example of Lake Powell. But the water doesn't just disappear there once the sandstone has absorbed its limit. It is actually stored in the walls and will return to the river as Lake Powell fluctuates from time to time. It should be noted here that the water behind... Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 2,536,058 bytes
Creator Udall, Morris K.
Date 1965-09-15 2006-9-25; 2006-09-25
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Identifier su04568.jpg http://server16127.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/udallcoloradoAZU,10017
Source Az 372 Box 169, Folder 1
Language eng

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