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Title page 10 Media Coverage Colorado River Bill 1968, page 10
Coverage Electronic reproduction;
Date 1968 1968;
Format 10 text/PDF
Rights Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public
Language English; eng; en
Relation Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; U S news S & world report A A WESTERN AWESTEMN ak 1k N riven RIVER M I 1 VERWAK WAR wan THATS FINALLY OVER lom low v it ax bx new water is now assured for areas of the southwest relief is promised for arizona help for other states benefits are seen for all the west PHOENIX ariz peace at last lias has ilas settled over the colorado river the tlle tile bitter battle between arizona and california was ended on july 31 when a senate house conference ence committee in washington an nounced bounced agreement on provisions of the colorado river basin project bill provided too were benefits for other states in the river s drainage basin authorized by this tilis tills bill is the tlle tile central arizona project which will bring water to the phoenix tucson area from the colorado river california heavily dependent on the tiie tile colorado to supply its booming southern region had llad tried to block the tlle tile arizona project in the tlle tile courts and in congress in withdrawing its opposition california got a guarantee ol 01 ot ai L icari ica&i owsl 1wsl i I 1 million acre feet of water each year from the river in addition to bringing peace to the southwest the colorado river basin bill is seen as ending a feud between southwestern and northwestern states the two areas have llave been at sword points over southwestern proposals to tap the columbia river for use in the tiie tile colorado river basin provided now is a moratorium of 10 years on study of such water transfers this tilis tills say northwest leaders gives their states time to plan for future use of columbia river water 1 .1 1 cost of the new work alongthe along the colorado i will be repaid to the U S treasury in years ahead actual work is not expected to begin until the early 1970s and will continue over a period of years westerners with waterpeace water peace assured are looking forward to a new era of reclamation la in their part of the country f Ti linx tf ii lil 1 w ititjnrttntttauifyam ambagtf lukal lfkal lf kei Kal x K P TLAWFOWT && 0ej0radvr1verr ggijsfflb ri alit ilit SN F V ela el1 4 plo WYO FLAMING GORGE UTAH i cdlradff cbl COL 0 I 1 AF X Assur assured eil of ofdevewing developing dixie UINTAII and llintah uinta projeitsi ject& A A PROJECT jeci JECT toli COLO lolo 1 gets otho authorization r liti06 bal bfl sj I 1 vd f 0 ZT reclamation pro16 projectsfthit US t h at wstb8 asab asfb green Q LQ function nunction grand hest WEST DIVIDE v will make nh w v a teruahble H ri ft glyer river PROJECT 0 fbrwum forfiituregrbwth grovdh 6 ondes onwes on wes deife t teife bisk yisk olik moab miguet MIGUEL sin SAN tilas DAUAS ALLAS titas CREEK IN slobb slopb throcluei ill NEV ili PROJECT ROJECT PROICT PROJECT rael raag 7 46 ANIMAS LA flata PLATA blata p&l1fridlftyi tv r t sprolat SP DIXIE PROJECT RolaT DOLOWS ILORES rt fm PROJECT NW NS aa 1a lihuruklmlh r N zol YOL zou ROJECT PROJECT cm hrtcvipn MEXICO W 1 spas isas v kew NEW ken sf winsiong wmsionteringuaranteef betm tetm ark ara ante nte ev i M 6 gu las W elver RIVER piver VR A 0 ller GLEN hler CANYON f S promised ocoee hbofer ocoke wlijt hmmon it ytatleast44imlionacrefeetnft k at le a st 4.4 44 44 olion acre if mea jv 0 dag DAM oag lag DAM hag A water aterfoiuifc r river to store tote toie S fycolorailoriverwateranni condrad coldrad river W aterannq r aili ARIZ aill NM MM II 11 11 wwpst aff tff HOOVER DA naw NPW new mexico ornialgy 1 nju11 wasi w&si kavi kasu x eol awl 5wl 5 wost vost bost wl ivull ntcaluu & ap A p raily rally lly ily liy for southern bouthern sou tou bou thern C calif alifornia ytiys holbrook mke mk9 oalis DAVIS lam DAM ltv fimm gamm fsmm CENTRAL to angeles C LIFPARKER das DAM oas ARIZONA PROJECT ARIZONA ARIZOIM afta fta amii amei amil N k R getting lo 10 iong long ng souglit sough ci centraarj n trat 1 COLORADO mil lil t IMPERIAL phoenix iam DAM tlle SITE K zora zona ona ora F project to bengl bnngl bring brint i 1 ituliio xtelm RIVER J xterm dag DAM lag g sid sin aou AaU tou aqueduct aaueduct EDUCT GILA R I 1 V ek hthl4li6vfilli4iri4atil a cret cre f 6eton aeton abere atere a c h rear year roar ra 4 7 tuma yuma I 1 colorado ri river v er to llieipiweiikjandl tie the P k in xan d p f55 J tudson tucson i tudson tucson tutson tucsoaregs ate S ri S ji&n jian i A n&teli A yn&nf 1 fot hoo ya y& N s yy ay ta t8 rg9llt S 7 A LJ D
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