Boulder Canyon Project: Final ReportsUnited States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 1950 - Arch dams |
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45 Stat acre-feet Act of Congress agency agreement All-American Canal appurtenant structures Aqueduct arbitrators Arizona Article authorized beneficial consumptive Board of Directors Boulder Canyon Project Boulder Canyon Reservoir canal and appurtenant Canyon Project Act capacity City of San Coachella District Coachella Service Area Coachella Valley County Colorado River Compact Colorado River Dam construction corner of Sec cost County Water District Dam and All-American December 21 delivered delivery of water determined District of Southern hereby hereunder Hoover Dam Imperial Dam Imperial District Imperial Irrigation District Interior Laguna Dam Lake Mead Lots main canal Metropolitan Water District N.E.4 of Sec NE¼ Nevada NW¼ operation and maintenance Palo Verde Irrigation payment priority purposes pursuant Ray Lyman Wilbur reclamation law River Dam Fund S.W. corner SE¼ SE¼4 Secretary SECTION SW¼ Syphon Drop thence tion tract United Valley County Water Verde Irrigation District water per annum Yuma Project
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Page 1148 - River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water...
Page 6 - 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.
Page 218 - The Contractor warrants that he has not employed any person to solicit or secure this contract upon any agreement for a commission, percentage, brokerage, or contingent fee.
Page 881 - No Member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract or to any benefit that may arise herefrom, but this restriction shall not be construed to extend to this contract if made with a corporation or company for its general benefit DEFINITIONS 18.
Page 430 - Act shall include water uses defined as "domestic" in said Colorado River compact. SEC. 13. (a) The Colorado River compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, pursuant to Act of Congress approved August 19, 1921, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes...
Page 324 - Valleys; also to construct and equip, operate, and maintain at or near said dam, or cause to be constructed, a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from said reservoir; and...
Page 108 - In witness whereof, the parties hereto have caused this contract to be executed the day and year first above written. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, By RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary of the Interior.
Page 6 - upper basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River system above Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River system which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system below Lee Ferry. (h) The term "domestic use...
Page 266 - That in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project, he shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin and shall require an identical provision to be included in all subcontracts.
Page 66 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...